10 SCSS utilities I can’t live without
Every front-end developer needs a battle-tested SCSS arsenal for starting new projects. Here are 10 of the best SCSS utilties I find myself using most often. You can download the entire file to use in...
View ArticleStop using Javascript Tooltips
Stop using Javascript tooltips. Seriously. Stop. CSS allows us to do almost everything capable with Javascript tooltips, and doesn’t require us to load external libraries, make additional HTTP requests...
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The Chrome CSS Bug That Crashed Our Site
The following is an all too real account of what happened to our site, hackingui.com, over Thanksgiving weekend. Out of nowhere the site stopped working. At first I thought it was an issue with our...
View ArticleA 5-minute trick to start tracking events in Google Analytics or Mixpanel
So we wanted to start doing some more advanced event tracking on HackingUI, to iterate on designs, improve our UI and to have actual data to back up our decisions. We were already using Google...
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Pure CSS for multiline truncation with ellipsis
BLOG UPDATE (updated on Nov 2018): Hacking UI was founded by us – David Tintner and Sagi Shrieber – but since then we each have gone down our own paths, and would love to invite you there. David is...
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How we built a large blog using WordPress, Heroku and Git: under the hood of...
When we created Hacking UI, I wanted to figure out the perfect technical setup for a large blog. I wanted to know exactly how the best blogs were built, where they were hosted, what software they used...
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A complete step-by-step guide to set up HTTPS on your website
This is the eighth article in the series of my 30-day writing challenge. Today I completed one of my most feared tasks. I’ve been wanting to move Hacking UI to SSL for years, but have been dreading...
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