Jake Bresnehan

Basic Performant Sharing Buttons

This is a lightweight, simple solution for adding sharing buttons to your site. Like many things, there are many ways to achieve this but the main goal of this solution is performance.

Every major social network provides an easy way to add sharing buttons to your site, but the downside of many of these is each button loads various scripts and stylesheets increasing the page weight. Generally speaking, say you wanted to have 4 sharing buttons (Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn) it’s more than likely you will be loading 8+ extra resources.

Using the provided solutions from the major networks is convenient, but less then ideal if performance is a main priority.

The Low Down on Lo-Dash

Jake Bresnehan

If you are a seasoned JavaScript developer or just getting into it you should definitely checkout and try to incorporate a library called Lo-Dash into your tool box.

In a nutshell, Lo-Dash is a super useful library that gives you access to over 100 extremely performant functions to help you avoid reinventing the wheel whilst writing JavaScript.

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Jake Bresnehan

Of late I have been deep in Angular land and I just thought I’d share a little discovery that I was shown by a fellow work college the other day.

Diving into Webpack

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Of late there has been a little bit of hype around this “webpack” thing. Hopefully this post gives you an overview of what it is, how to use it and if it’s worth all the hype.

Sass Source Maps in Chrome

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Over the last few years there has been some major advancements in the tooling we use on a day-to-day basis but one feature that really took things to the next level was the introduction to CSS source maps.

Learn How to Start Developing

Jake Bresnehan

There are so many ways to begin to understand how a website is built it’s easy to get overwhelmed. One way I would recommend is utilising the developer tools that are built into the browser.

Dealing with a large CSS codebase

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During the last few years I have found myself dealing with largish codebases on various projects. During that time I have continued to assess the tools and techniques used to make it as easy as possible. This post explores ways to make developing on large CSS codebases more enjoyable.

SassyLists moving to 2.x

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Hugo Giraudel shares his journey of building SassyLists. SassyLists is a toolbox providing almost 40 functions to help working with Sass lists. The Sass default list API is very light therefore you might need some extra functions, especially if you are building a Sass framework or a robust grid system.

Can I Use connected to Google Analytics

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Can I Use is a super valuable resource during development and one of the cool things I discovered recently is you can connect your Google Analytics account to Can I Use to get accurate supported stats based on your sites actual data.

Different Sass Output Styles

Jake Bresnehan

When developing with Sass sometimes there is a need to adjust the output style of the CSS. Sass’s default CSS style is good but might not be applicable for all situations. This post explores what those options are and how to adjust your compiler settings.