• BIRTH – Born (2022)
    Studio Album, released in 2022
    “There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, ” This is new, and therefore better.” John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVLfowcuUSI

    There won’t be comets crashing all around, no great lick of a sun’s flare nor a great flash of nuclear fission set to rend our atmosphere into collapse, there won’t be a hundred years long war to cloud the air with the smoke of burning bodies and fossil fuel’s sabotaged fonts. There will be no glorious warrior death for humanity enough to warrant any such miserable romancing of the end. There will be no grand spaceship escape or tunnel underground to wait out the rebirth of the Earth’s poisoned soul, only the slow and unbearable onset of hapless and hopelessly complacent denial-fiending we’ve experienced over the course of the last few years wherein merchants of death-en-masse’s profitable constriction becomes a new normative low, comfortably sinking more into destitution and servitude month over month. Mankind will eventually simply set down in place, set weary skull into each palm and quietly resign to a fetal balling-up under the stress of poisonous environmental collapse. The few who cling to hope among us are simply waiting for someone else to do the work, anyhow. San Diego, California-based progressive psychedelic rock trio Birth manifest an introspective examination of the macrocosm of nature, technology, and human behavior as these collectively degrading elements represent tandem collapse of society and environment. ‘Born‘ is not a self-involved statement of a project sorceled into being out of hardship but a very direct meditation upon impermanence, leaving the other half of the equation, Death, up to the logic of the listener.

    You’re gonna get hung-up on it, man. Lost. — Since the initial free download of ‘Birth‘ now appears to have been about half of the full-length experience verbatim and sits off the digital shelf at the moment, the search for meaning and precedence will inevitably find us looking to past works for foundation. This might end up being a blurring brushstroke, a distraction from the main event in the long run but the context is damned impressive when we consider the varietal body of work from the musicians involved. Approaching Birth‘s debut with the preface of some of the members’ previous spiritual predecessorship in Astra is a double-edged sword in the sense that yes, these are (some of) the same musicians involved in creating a similarly intoxicating mode of progressive psychedelic rock aspect yet it doesn’t necessarily build the right expectation, nor does ‘Born‘ read as a set of songs from the same headspace or intent; Expect a touch more late 60’s heavy blues, more immediately struck theatric hooks, and glorious feature of sublimely unfettered showmanship on guitar and electric piano performances with -none- of the epic longform stretches of build up, which the very popular Astra were known for. Not every second of the full listen is comparatively rousing in its conjure, they are a bit more to the point with the heavier stuff early on and sleepier when things lean celestial, so, you can set your copy of ‘The Weirding‘ aside and stop expecting a revival of that band.

    Without Richard Vaughn, whom was a third dimensional aspect of the Silver Sunshine/Astra sound from what I gather, the duo of Conor Riley and Brian Ellis appears to be aimed the U.K.’s still maturing near-second generation era progressive rock sound, somber in a bluesy sort of way but still very much eating at the early 70’s diner of ambitious wonderment incarnate in shaping their core conceit, and in the process of doing so they go bit more heavy psychedelic rock -and- spaced-out, gloomy prog-rock than Astra ever had. In this sense we can loosen up on the obvious comparisons to pre-‘Relayer‘ Yes and Armageddon‘s self-titled record without setting them aside, you’ve got myriad groups like Wobbler whom fully go there in an inspired way nowadays anyhow. This might seem like a bit of a contradiction with reality once you’ve heard lead single “For Yesterday” paired with the spaced, odd-time tension of “Cosmic Tears” but ‘Born‘ simply has a different presence, a more direct line to throwback kitsch and synthesizer worship without trying to be future-past submerged stuff. Though I am aware this’ll all read as heady drivel parsing away deep expectations, that choppy reconsideration of any direct association with past works will likely be the typical listener’s reaction as they inevitably contextualize Birth as separate from Astra. The important thing is to sit back, knock it off and let the theatric Crimson-ian ebb of the record (see: “Long Way Down”) do its thing and get to the point on its own time.

    Opener “Born” and its striking into simple riff/organ doubled rhythm immediately read to me as something like Atomic Rooster‘s “Vug”, that era of virtuosic electric piano and/or Hammond organ grinding minus the ‘tonk of Crane‘s rhythmic sensibilities. This turns out to be the wrong first impression all things considered, we’re not exactly in such an extroverted early Uriah Heep mood from the get go anyhow. The band right this wrong quickly with the suggestion of something a bit more moody, specifically the easier-going side of King Crimson‘s ‘Red‘, whereas my mind had been expecting a ‘Tarkus‘ sort of gig up front. We won’t necessarily hear this side of the band again until “Another Time” strikes back into it as a deep cut on Side B, so don’t read into the get-up of the opener too righteously.

    The sleepy, easier drift of previously released singles “Descending Us” and “For Yesterday” are the bulk of the full listen’s vital statement both in terms of defining style and lyrical voice as Birth explore various synth/keyboard voicing in pair with drawn out swells of lead guitar and exasperated, occasionally folkish vocal cadence. “Descending Us” is more-or-less unmatched per its surroundings in terms of pulling together something soulful yet heavy psych in its trade-off of inspired verses and fiery guitar solos which peak in the last two minutes of the piece. “For Yesterday” is the major work done on ‘Born‘ to convince the listener of its viability and/or lasting value, an opus which showcases the cloudy run-on compositional space where Riley excels most and presents a very clear love for the exaggerative arc of peak prog rock songcraft. Eh, albeit a succinct one even at ~10 minutes, which depicts the soul lamenting its inevitable dissolve in relation to others, a peak moment either way. The song does however feel like it drones on without a third act, which we must assign to very worthy Side B starter “Cosmic Tears”.

    See it as an intentional descent, a dissolution, a passage between mindset unto a darker new reality but I’d eventually find ‘Born‘ an in-quest of an original idiom that’d been difficult to expand as the songwriting process continued, what we experience is their working around a very persistent mood in order to shape a disparate narrative. What I’d imply therein is this sense that a second record from Birth will likely be entirely different, potentially a bit more on the emotional spectrum of the expressive, dread exhaling relief of closer “Long Way Down”. This’d end up being the most inspirational piece for my taste and in no small part due to it following the bustle of “Another Time”. Again, these songs feel like they were ripped from the same sessions as opener “Born” with a bit more severe twist on electric blues in their core statement which almost sounds like the band had transformed into themselves mid-album and wanted to stick with a running order that expressed this directly. The feeling is that of getting a bit lost, collapsing into torpor and waking up refreshed with a bit of a lingering dread in mind. Either that or I’m projecting the sullen arc of everyday life onto a very entertaining, retro-brained heavy rock record.

    Though ‘Born‘ occasionally feels like it’d been salvaged from the band suddenly realizing “Hey, we’ve got something here. Now we need to do something.” and making timely statement out of it in terms of a release it nonetheless lands substantial and well in keeping with the best tradition of ambitious yet personal progressive rock. Though the sleepier shades of dread on this album are its most imaginative cerebrum, and surely the thing to emphasize for newcomers, the restless showmanship and yearning introspection found on Birth‘s debut ultimately sold it upon repeated listens. I’ll resign myself to hindsight and any further iteration to frame the experience in mind accordingly. A moderately high recommendation.
    Source : https://grizzlybutts.com/2022/07/10/birth-born-2022-review

    Songs / Tracks Listing
    1. Born (4:48)
    2. Descending Us (6:56)
    3. For Yesterday (9:14)
    4. Cosmic Tears (7:41)
    5. Another Time (5:36)
    6. Long Way Down (7:17)

    Total Time 41:32

    Line-up / Musicians
    – Conor Riley / vocals, synthesizer, electric piano, organ, acoustic guitar
    – Brian Ellis / guitar, electric piano, percussion
    – Trevor Mast / bass
    – Paul Marrone / drums

    #musique #full_album #progressive_rock #psychedelic_rock #prog_rock #music

  • #Arachnoid - Arachnoid (1979) 🇫🇷
    Biography
    Founded in Gournay sur Marne, France in 1970 - Reformed in 1978-1981 and 1990-1995 (as a duo)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTOaPNANu0g

    ARACHNOÏD is a French major progressive band whose #music was combined with the strengths of other French symphonic groups and dark progressive rock that recalled the style of KING CRIMSON. The dark sound, almost like UNIVERS ZERO, is accomplished mostly by employing melodic structures in the vein of KING CRIMSON’s “Larks’ Tongues In Aspic”. The dramatic vocals are similar to that of Christian Decamp from ANGE. ARACHNOÏD’s music expresses a continuous tension with flashy guitar’s parts and tormented keyboard interventions. ARACHNOID is a unique band with nods to KING CRIMSON, PULSAR, SHYLOCK & PINK FLOYD!
    The band lineup consists of Francois Faugieres on organ, Mellotron, Pierre Kuti on acoustic and electric pianos, synths, Bernard Mini on drums, Marc Meryl on lead vocals, tambourine, Philippe Honore on flute, saxophone, and vocals by Yves Javault, Christine Mariey, Martine Rateau and Patrick Woindrich, also on bass, and guitar. Nicolas Popowski also features on guitar and vocals.
    ARACHNOÏD’s 1978 self-titled album is one of France’s finest progressive albums of the 70’s, but by no means a classic. The album often receives 4 star ratings by reviewers as it is an example of excellent Symphonic Prog, with it’s striking creepy cover, easily recognisable. The first four tracks of the seven are the best examples of their sound, and these are the most complicated and intriguing. The band have played classically-inspired instrumentals, but their vocalist lacks the power to carry the heavier symphonic passages. Recommended for all adventurous progsters! AtomicCrimsonRush (Scott Tuffnell)

    Arachnoid - Arachnoid (1979)
    Songs / Tracks Listing
    1. Le Chamadère (13:57)
    2. Piano Caveau (7:24)
    3. Toutes Ces Images / Segamisec Setout (8:15)
    4. La Guêpe (8:44)
    5. L’Adieu Au Pierrot / Final (4:00)

    Total time 42:20
    Bonus track on 1988 & 1996 reissues:
    6. In The Screen Side Of Your Eyes (4:04)

    Extra bonus tracks on 1996 CD release:
    7. Les Quatre Saisons De L’Enfer, 1ère Partie: L’Hiver (live ) (4:39)
    8. Le Pierrot (live
    ) (5:08)
    9. L’Adieu (live $) (3:23)
    10. Piano Caveau (instrumental & Different Mix) (7:17)

    * Recorded at La Péniche, Paris, 27 March 1977
    $ Recorded at The Mille-Club, in Vaires-sur-Marne, December 1976

    Line-up / Musicians
    – Marc Meryl / lead vocals, tambourine (9)
    – Nicolas Popowski / guitar, vocals
    – François Faugieres / Farfisa organ, Mellotron, vocals
    – Pierre Kuti / piano, Fender Rhodes, MS10 & Korg synths
    – Patrick Woindrich / bass, guitar (6), vocals, producer
    – Bernard Mini / drums

    With:
    – Christine Mariey / child voice (1,4)
    – Yves Javault / vocals (4)
    – Martine Rateau / spoken word (4)
    – Philippe Honore / saxophone (4), flute (6)

    Artwork: Alain Robert
    #musique #symphonic_prog #progressive_rock #french_prog_rock

  • The Danger of Anti-Immigrant Extremism Posing as Environmentalism—and Who Funds It

    With President Joe Biden in the White House and Vice President Kamala Harris providing the deciding vote in the Senate, a range of long-sought Democratic policy goals are back in play, albeit just barely. That includes ambitious agendas on immigration and the environment.

    Could this be the administration that pushes through comprehensive immigration reform after decades of failed attempts? Will youth activists and the burgeoning movement for a Green New Deal provide a pathway to major climate legislation? If so, advocates and their funders alike face a tough road ahead, including an obstructionist congressional minority and opponents on both fronts that will look to appeal to the public’s darkest impulses to build opposition.

    At this inflection point, a report this month from the Center for American Progress, “The Extremist Campaign to Blame Immigrants for U.S. Environmental Problems,” offers a timely overview of the history of how opponents of immigration falsely portray it as a threat to the natural world—a strategy we’re likely to see more of in the months ahead. The report offers a valuable review of these efforts, ranging from the past anti-immigrant stances of some of the nation’s best-known environmental groups to the funders that have bankrolled the nation’s largest anti-immigration groups.

    Four years of an administration defined by its opposition to immigration, plus growing attention to climate change, breathed new life into the toxic and racist narrative of immigrants as a cause of environmental degradation. As the report lays out, this argument—often part of a right-wing, white supremacist ideology known as ecofascism, though CAP’s report does not use the term—found allies in the top echelons of government and media, including a former head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and conservative commentators like Ann Coulter and Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

    In contemporary politics, this strategy is mainly seen as a right-wing phenomenon or an artifact of the racist and Eurocentric early history of conservation. Yet the fact that anti-immigrant sentiment found a home within top environmental groups, including Earthfirst! and the Sierra Club, which had a major faction in support of these ideas as late as 2004, is a reminder that it has found fertile soil in a variety of political camps. That makes the narrative all the more dangerous, and one against which funders working in both immigration and the environment ought to take a firm and vocal stance.

    Who’s funding anti-immigration work in the name of the environment?

    Although not comprehensive, the report highlights three funders as key backers of anti-immigration groups: Colcom Foundation, Weeden Foundation and Foundation for the Carolinas. The first two are, in their branding and language, environmental funders—and make those grants in the name of preventing further damage to the natural world.

    Colcom, founded by Mellon Bank heir Cordelia Scaife May, is far and away the largest funder. With a roughly $500 million endowment, it has provided a large share of the support for a network of groups founded by John Tanton, a Sierra Club official in the 1980s, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) calls “the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement.”

    Recipients include NumbersUSA, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and the Center for Immigration Studies, which we once called “Trump’s favorite immigration think tank.” The latter two are classified as hate groups by the SPLC, a designation the organizations reject.

    In keeping with the bending of reflexive political categories, it’s worth noting that May—who died in 2005—was also a substantial funder of Planned Parenthood due to her prioritization of “population control” as a means of achieving conservation. In 2019, the New York Times documented May’s dark journey to becoming a leading funder of the modern anti-immigrant movement, and the millions her foundation continued to move, long after her death, in support of ideas that gained a receptive audience in a nativist Trump administration. May’s wealth came from the Mellon-Scaife family fortune, which yielded several philanthropists, including another prominent conservative donor, Richard Mellon Scaife.

    Weeden, led by Don Weeden, has funded a similar who’s who of top anti-immigration groups, as well as lower-profile or regional groups like Californians for Population Stabilization, Progressives for Immigration Reform—which CAP calls the “most central organization in the anti-immigrant greenwashing universe”—and the Rewilding Institute.

    Both Weeden and Colcom, as well as the groups they fund, generally say they are neither anti-immigrant nor anti-immigration. Aside from restrictionist policy positions and racist comments by former leaders, it is revealing that the groups they fund are the favored information sources for some of the most virulently anti-immigrant politicians, both historically and among those who rose prominence during the Trump administration. For a deeper dive on Weeden and Colcom, see my colleague Philip Rojc’s excellent 2019 piece on these grantmakers.

    Finally, there is the Foundation for the Carolinas, which in many ways is a typical community foundation, with initiatives on topics from COVID-19 relief to local arts. But it also hosts a donor-advised fund that has supported several anti-immigration groups, including Center for Immigration Studies, FAIR and NumbersUSA. That fund channeled nearly $21 million to nine such groups between 2006 and 2018, according to the report.

    There’s a connection here to a larger problem of private foundations and DAFs, some of which are housed at community foundations, supporting 501(c)(3) nonprofits identified as hate groups, according to a recent analysis from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Foundation for the Carolinas also made its list of top donors to these groups.

    An ideology funders must fight against

    As the debates over both immigration and climate policies move forward under this new administration, and the opposition marshals efforts to defeat them, this report offers a helpful guide to this enduring and noxious myth. It’s also an important reminder that if these ideas are not called actively combated, they can take root within well-intentioned efforts. Though it seems only a small number of foundations directly fund groups advancing these ideas, anti-immigrant sentiment is insidious.

    For example, while some commentators are suggesting that acceding to Trump-fueled demands for a border wall is how Congress could reach bipartisan action on immigration reform, the report notes how the existing sections of wall are ineffective against furtive crossings, disruptive to species migration, and in violation of Indigenous sacred sites. These facts—and more broadly, the connection to white supremacist and fascist movements—should put foundations on guard, whether they support grantees pushing for immigration reform, action on climate or both.

    With the United States and other nations facing greater and greater pressures from climate change—particularly as it forces migration from regions like Latin America and the Middle East—philanthropy would do well to be proactive now and draw a bright line in countering this ideology’s propagation.

    https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2021/2/24/anti-immigrant-environmentalism-is-resurgent-new-report-looks-at
    #extrême_droite #anti-migrants #USA #Etats-Unis #environnementalisme #environnement #migrations #nature #dégradation_environnementale #écofascisme #éco-fascisme #suprématisme_blanc #extrême_droite #Ann_Coulte #Tucker_Carlson #racisme #Earthfirst #Sierra_Club #deep_ecology #fondations #Colcom_Foundation #Weeden_Foundation #Foundation_for_the_Carolinas #Mellon_Bank #Cordelia_Scaife_May #mécénat #John_Tanton #NumbersUSA #Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform (#FAIR) #Center_for_Immigration_Studies #Planned_Parenthood #démographie #contrôle_démographique #néo-malthusianisme #néomalthusianisme #protection_de_l'environnement #philanthropie #Richard_Mellon_Scaife #Weeden #Don_Weeden #Californians_for_Population_Stabilization #Progressives_for_Immigration_Reform #Rewilding_Institute

    • The Extremist Campaign to Blame Immigrants for U.S. Environmental Problems

      With growing frequency over the past four years, right-wing pundits, policymakers, and political operatives have fiercely and furiously blamed immigrants for the degradation and decline of nature in the United States. William Perry Pendley, who temporarily ran the U.S. Bureau of Land Management under former President Donald Trump, saw “immigration as one of the biggest threats to public lands,” according to an agency spokesperson.1 A handful of right-wing anti-immigration zealots, including Joe Guzzardi, have repeatedly misused data published by the Center for American Progress on nature loss to make xenophobic arguments for anti-immigration policies.2 This so-called “greening of hate”—a term explored by Guardian reporter Susie Cagle—is a common refrain in a wide range of conservative and white supremacist arguments, including those of Ann Coulter, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, and the manifestos of more than one mass shooter.3

      The claim that immigration is to blame for America’s environmental problems is so absurd, racist, and out of the mainstream that it is easily debunked and tempting to ignore. The scientific community, and the little research that has been conducted in this area, resoundingly refutes the premise. Consider, for example, the environmental damage caused by weak and inadequate regulation of polluting industries; the destruction of wildlife habitat to accommodate wealthy exurbs and second homes; the design and propagation of policies that concentrate toxic poisons and environmental destruction near communities of color and low-income communities; the continued subsidization of fossil fuel extraction and trampling of Indigenous rights to accommodate drilling and mining projects; and the propagation of a throw-away culture by industrial powerhouses. All of these factors and others cause exponentially more severe environmental harm than a family that is fleeing violence, poverty, or suffering to seek a new life in the United States.

      The extremist effort to blame immigrants for the nation’s environmental problems deserves scrutiny—and not merely for the purpose of disproving its xenophobic and outlandish claims. The contours, origins, funding sources, and goals of this right-wing effort must be understood in order to effectively combat it and ensure that the extremists pushing it have no place in the conservation movement. The individuals and organizations that are most fervently propagating this argument come largely from well-funded hate groups that are abusing discredited ideologies that were prevalent in the 19th-century American conservation movement in an attempt to make their racist rhetoric more palatable to a public concerned about the health of their environment.

      While leaders of the contemporary, mainstream environmental movement in the United States have disavowed this strain of thought and are working to confront the legacies of colonialism and racism in environmental organizations and policies, a small set of right-wing political operatives are trying to magnify overtly xenophobic and false environmental arguments to achieve specific political objectives. In particular, these right-wing political operatives and their deep-pocketed funders are seeking to broaden the appeal of their anti-immigration zealotry by greenwashing their movement and supplying their right-wing base with alternative explanations for environmental decline that sidestep the culpability of the conservative anti-regulatory agenda. In their refusal to confront the true reasons for environmental decline, they are hurting the people—immigrants, Indigenous peoples, and people of color—who bear a disproportionate burden of environmental consequences and are increasingly the base of the climate justice and conservation movements.

      (...)

      https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2021/02/01/495228/extremist-campaign-blame-immigrants-u-s-environmental-problems

  • Progressive Web Apps: Apple App Store, Google Play Store, It Was Nice Knowing You
    https://hackernoon.com/progressive-web-apps-apple-app-store-google-play-store-it-was-nice-knowi

    Is the end coming for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store? The title is obviously an exaggeration, but in all seriousness, the time has come for a new wave of #mobile technology to come to the fore. In 2018, Twitter announced that it has started offering its mobile PWA as its main site. PWA? What’s that?Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is the future of mobile apps and the web, pushed by heavyweights in the industry especially Google. With features such as adding to home screen, offline support, push notifications and more, a PWA offers a user experience approaching that of a native mobile app.Here’s how a PWA works. Imagine you have a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app that is also PWA compliant. You just need to visit the app using a normal URL in your mobile browser. If you have (...)

    #mobile-app-development #progressive-web-app #web-development #open-source

  • Creating a Simple Text Editor Progressive Web App with #react
    https://hackernoon.com/jamie-maison-ff7d51058c32?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

    For Your Progressive Web App:How to Create a Simple Text Editor with ReactIn 2019 Progressive Web Apps are going to be much hyped and there’s no better time to start exploring the benefits. In this tutorial i’ll take you step by step through creating a simple Text Editor PWA using React so you can code your own!Originally published at www.jamiemaison.com.In 2019 Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are going to be much hyped and there’s no better time to start exploring the benefits. In this tutorial i’ll take you step by step through creating a simple Text Editor PWA using React so you can code your own!When PWAs were first mentioned in 2015 Google’s Alex Russell introduced them as web applications that have the following attributes:Responsive: to fit any form factorConnectivity independent: (...)

    #web-development #create-text-editor #react-text-editor #progressive-web-app

  • Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW — Pt. 2
    https://hackernoon.com/progressive-web-apps-pwas-ftw-pt-2-31c2779e55c4?source=rss----3a8144eabf

    Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW — Pt. 2IntroductionIn part 1 of this series we looked at what Progressive Web Apps are and discussed how they can improve user experiences in mobile web. These articles are based on the talk I gave at the Reversim Summit. If you prefer to watch the video you can see it here:https://medium.com/media/2c31b3cbe49e18762f4820b486c62234/hrefLet’s continue where we left off last time and dive into Web Workers. Web Workers are the core technologies that enable PWAs.Web WorkersIf you’ve worked a bit with #javascript before you may have noticed that it is single threaded. This is evident if you do any expensive computations on the client side. In these cases the page becomes unresponsive until the script running the computations is finished. A web worker comes to solve (...)

    #web-development #coding #pwa #progressive-web-app

  • #magento 2.3 — Everything You Need To Know
    https://hackernoon.com/magento-2-3-everything-you-need-to-know-19cd4cb8e6d6?source=rss----3a814

    Magento 2.3 — Everything You Need To KnowDuring the Imagine 2018 conference back in April, Magento announced the release of Magento 2.3 by the end of 2018.After much of a wait, Magento has released the Magento 2.3 on November 28, 2018.It has been almost a year since the last major release of Magento 2.2 but Magento 2.3 has brought a ton of new core features with a lot of smaller optimizations.11 New Features Magento 2.3 IntroducedMagento 2.3 introduces tons of new core features such as –Progressive Web App (PWA) StudioGraphQL SupportDeclarative DB SchemaAsynchronous and Bulk Web APIElasticsearchPHP 7.2 SupportMulti-Source Inventory (MSI)WYSIWYG UpgradePage BuilderCache-ManagementGoogle reCAPTCHA and Two Factor AuthenticationLet’s have a closer look at them.Progressive Web Applications (PWA) (...)

    #adobe #web-development #progressive-web-app #ecommerce

  • PWAs FTW — Pt. 1
    https://hackernoon.com/pwas-ftw-pt-1-37729432d529?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

    Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW — Pt. 1Progressive Web AppsIntroductionLast month I had the pleasure of talking about Progressive Web Apps at the amazing Reversim Summit. This series will summarise the contents of that talk. If you prefer to watch the video you can see it here:https://medium.com/media/9c8806e602e4f245cca58eb9b86b1298/hrefWhyProgressive Web Apps are here to help us bridge UX between mobile websites and apps. But before we jump into how let’s understand why.Last year Google published that there are nearly 3x more monthly unique visitors to mobile websites versus native applications. If this is the case then why do we bother developing mobile applications at all? The answer is user engagement. User engagement on native apps is nearly 10x larger than on mobile websites. That’s (...)

    #progressive-web-app #mobile-app-development #javascript #web-development

  • #progressive Web Apps vs Native Apps — When and Which to Choose
    https://hackernoon.com/progressive-web-apps-vs-native-apps-when-and-which-to-choose-b8dd518b328

    Progressive Web Apps vs Native Apps — When and Which to ChooseProgressive Web Apps have proven very useful and we have seen them being implemented in lots of projects. However, they are not here to take the place of native apps but to fix some problems such as cross-platform compatibility.Progressive Web ApplicationsProgressive Web Applications are web applications that can act as regular #mobile applications. Therefore you can have access to some device APIs and functionalities that only native mobile applications are expected to be able to access and also have the operating system’s native interface.PWA is a technology developed by Google and was outsourced by the company for others to use and enjoy its awesome benefits.How they workPWAs are reliant on different technologies such as (...)

    #progressive-web-app #app-development #native-app

  • Build an E-Commerce Progressive Web App with GatsbyJS
    https://hackernoon.com/build-an-e-commerce-progressive-web-app-with-gatsbyjs-dc811ec2b9d4?sourc

    Photo by Yiran Ding on UnsplashI tried buying a t-shirt on my phone the other day.First, I get redirected to a http://m.thatsite.com URL.Mobile site loads…Content finally appears, along with a fullscreen pop-up:Download our mobile app for a better shopping experience!I tap the link. App store loads…Bad reviews, blurred screenshots, 50 MB. SighI close both app store and browser.This familiar, sketchy shopping experience could have been avoided.How? With progressive web app e-commerce.Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) have been on the rise these last years. Solid PWA examples are popping up everywhere, and for good reasons.They encourage an inclusive, global, adaptative approach to web development. They make sense both from a user AND a business POV, as we’ll see in this piece. Frameworks like (...)

    #ecommerce #javascript #app-development #progressive-web-app #web-development

  • Building Budgeteer - Lessons and Experiences
    https://hackernoon.com/building-budgeteer-lessons-and-experiences-97dec9031006?source=rss----3a

    Building Budgeteer — Lessons and ExperiencesIn late 2017 I felt the need to build something but didn’t know what and had spent the last 2 months racking my brain to find an interesting project. With less than a semester left of college I eventually realized I needed a budget app. BOOM. There it was. I knew of course about Mint, and later learned of Clarity #money far into development, but I wanted something smaller and more focused without all the extra heft that Mint provides, or the advertising and recommendations that Clarity Money includes.Budgeteer was born (My sister came up with the name at dinner when I was home on vacation, I am not that creative). This is the story of how I built it, lessons learned, and experience gained. It’s not finished, and still requires a fair amount of (...)

    #building-budgeteer #web-development #finance #progressive-web-app

  • Creating a Progressive Web App with a Headless #cms — Part 2
    https://hackernoon.com/creating-a-progressive-web-app-with-a-headless-cms-part-2-88ffee198ff6?s

    Hey, welcome back! In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the Progressive Web App (PWA). I covered what they are, how they function, and how a headless CMS can really add some awesome functionality. In Part 2, I’m going to dive into building a #pwa and adding some cool features. That means creating the base app, adding the magic, and testing.So, let’s get to the good stuff!RecapIn Part 1, I mentioned a few services that we’re going to talk about a lot in this series.Google PWA TutorialThis is the “base” app we started with for our demo. It’s a great tutorial and provides a nice foundation for a PWA.Kentico CloudThis is the cloud-based CMS we used to power our application. It’s a scalable, flexible CMS with tons of SDKs and sample projects to help you get going quickly.Creating the base (...)

    #headless-cms #web-development #progressive-web-app

  • Resilient Web Design—Introduction
    https://resilientwebdesign.com

    With a title like Resilient Web Design, you might think that this is a handbook for designing robust websites. This is not a handbook. It’s more like a history #book.

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    But in the world of #web_design, we are mostly preoccupied with the here and now. When we think beyond our present moment, it is usually to contemplate the future—to imagine the devices, features, and interfaces that don’t yet exist. We don’t have time to look back upon our past, and yet the history of web design is filled with interesting ideas.