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Managing modal dialogs in Ember.js with Promises

Modal dialogs are about as widespread as they are missunderstood. No matter if you call them modal windows, popups, popovers, overlays, or dialogs: A thing that asks a question or presents a subordinate task; a general annoyance to developers and accessibility experts alike.

Even if you use them rarely, most applications will need modal dialogs at some point to ask existential questions. The app asks your user and waits to resolve its uncertainty by their answer.

Inside simplabs #1: Chris Manson, Senior Software-Engineer

In the first episode of the new series "Inside simplabs", Emma Dell'Acqua, Marketing Assistant, has a chat with Chris Manson, one of our Senior Software-Engineers.

Effective infrastructure for efficient development workflows

Building software products of any kind is hard enough. Doing so without the support of powerful infrastructure that enables efficient workflows is even harder. Yet, many teams are suffering from the absence of such infrastructure, forcing them into very much inefficient workflows with substantial time and effort going into synchronizing the work of different engineers, tracking down bugs, and getting back to tasks later that were already thought to be complete.

How to create an interface inventory

Are you struggling with a messy interface? Is your digital product full of inconsistencies? Are your designers and developers having a hard time aligning on how to evolve your UI?

If so, consider creating an interface inventory. It is a small but powerful step towards a homogenous, pattern-based digital design strategy.

Git Good - The magic of keeping a clean Git history

This post is designed to help you form a solid mental model while working with Git both professionally and in an open source project, and how to ensure you are following best practices to make the process easier for everyone.

Trying your GitHub Actions locally

If, like me, configuring GitHub Actions is not your thing and you find yourself wanting to try something before actually pushing it to GitHub (and having to see the effects on real-life), follow this step by step of how to run your GitHub Actions on your own computer.

Ember.js in 2021 – a beacon of productivity

Ember has been around since the early days of the frontend renaissance that already started several years ago by now. It's almost a decade old and dates back well before React, Vue, Svelte and all the others. The framework has never been on the forefront of the frontend hype train but quietly enabled teams to ship steadily and sustainably – among them Qonto and CLARK, two of Europe's Top 50 FinTechs in 2020 (more on their success with Ember below).

In this post, I want to make the case for Ember in 2021 and explain why I consider it a beacon of productivity in the middle of a roaring sea of complexity. While everyone is obsessed with change and innovation (often mistaking the former for the latter), Ember allows teams to excel at executing their product vision and focus on shipping instead of getting lost in low-level rabbit holes where little business value is to be found.

An intro to animating with the Web Animations API

Animations can be a useful tool to enhance the user experience on the web. Aside from providing an appealing visual experience, animations can aid in the user's understanding of elements appearing, moving and disappearing from a page. This blog post will provide a short overview of the status quo of animating the web and take an initial look at the current capabilities of the Web Animations API.

XML parsing in Rust

Last week we spent some time researching the current state of XML parsing and writing in the Rust ecosystem. For a small side project we needed to read an XML file and turn its content into regular Rust structs. This blog post is a summary of what approaches we looked into, their tradeoffs and what we finally decided to use.