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Avoiding Dark Patterns in Web Design

By Paul Boag on

Do you ever feel like the web has turned into Mos Eisley, “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”? A place where anything goes as companies attempt to persuade us to click, download or buy. The web seems full of deceptive design patterns that use psychology to manipulate people into handing over personal information (also known […]

5 Tips For Writing A Great Technical Resume

By Emma Bostian on

How often have you scrambled to assemble a resume, only never to hear back from the company you applied to? You’re not alone. Often your resume competes against hundreds (or even thousands!) of other resumes. So…how do you get noticed? A resume isn’t something most people regularly update (even though we probably should). When you […]

Tackling CSS Specificity

By Emma Bostian on

How often have you been frustrated because you’ve just joined a new project and can’t figure out why your styles aren’t being applied properly? Or maybe you’ve just integrated a new library, and suddenly all of your styles are being overridden. You could slap an !important declaration onto your styles and call it a day, but that […]