Accessibility

By Master Owl / September 16, 2018

You’ve probably seen this thing "A11y" on the internet. It’s not a typo, but an actual word presented as an abbreviation. Number 11 refers to the number of omitted letters. The full word is "Accessibility". People just got sick of typing it every time and decided to shorten it a bit. All of us are […]

Marketing

By Master Owl / September 3, 2018

In the web development world, there’s this resistance to marketing in general. And it’s not without a reason. The idea of marketing leaves a bad taste in peoples mouths. We’re used to bad kinds of marketing. People think of it as getting spammy email ads in your inbox trying to sell you used toilet paper. […]

Web Development

Web Security

By Master Owl / August 29, 2018

As a web developer, every day you come across so many acronyms that it can be challenging to remember what they all mean. Have you ever seen acronyms like XSS, CSRF? They are all the bad things that attacker can do to your site. HTTPS, CSP, HSTS – those are security standards that were developed […]

Remote Work

By Master Owl / August 24, 2018

Remote work is a hot topic that a lot of people are interested in. It’s either people who are already working remotely and looking for better ways to be productive or people who are just interested in getting into a job or a career where you can do it. Being a web developer is a […]

Job

Web Development

By Master Owl / August 6, 2018

If you’re a working parent, you’re probably familiar with the frustration of managing a job, a team of kids, your own social life and other commitments. Keeping up to date with ever-changing technology sometimes can become an absolutely impossible task. You work your 8 hours a day, you don’t have any time, you can’t spend […]

Progressive Web Apps

By Master Owl / July 24, 2018

Hey there, hope you are doing well. Today we’re going to dive into an interesting world of balcony container gardening… Actually, that’s for another time. So the topic for this article is going to be Progressive Web Applications (PWA). Let’s imagine that you want to build a website that will be an online store for […]

ASP.NET Core

SignalR

By Master Owl / July 14, 2018

Traditionally HTTP has always been all about request/response architecture. If the client wants to receive some information, it issues a request and then the server gives back the response. Imagine something that is actually updating the data in real time, for instance, NHL scoreboard. The score there doesn’t change so much, so what we would […]

Animation

By Master Owl / May 9, 2018

Hey there, how are you all doing? The other day I was watching NatGeoWild and something interesting caught my eye: a lovely on screen text animation. So I thought It would be kinda cool to try to recreate it with CSS animations. To get started we need to make sure that we have control over […]

ASP.NET Core

By Master Owl / March 11, 2018

Oh hey there! In my last blog post I looked at Microsoft Cognitive Services. Today, I thought I would continue this little Microsoft streak and dive into another Microsoft products – ASP.NET Core 2.0 and EF Core. If you write software for a living or just for fun, you’ve probably worked with databases before. A couple […]

Computer Vision API

By Master Owl / January 27, 2018

Nowadays computers and IOT devices are getting smarter everyday. That’s great! I always wanted to have a meaningful conversation about intricacies of life with my toaster and this day is relentlessly approaching. Meanwhile, no less amazing ability of computers to read the text from images caught my attention. Some really smart people at Microsoft Azure […]