Awwwards Conference 2019: A Recap
Three(ish) weeks ago, Ally Fouts, Julia Thummel, and I went to the Awwwards conference in San Francisco. I came back inspired to take risks and try new things...which I promptly applied to the...
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Level Up with Craft CMS: Know When to Ditch Twig
Twig is an extremely powerful templating language, and I am always grateful that Pixel & Tonic chose an open source templating language. But, there are times when you can start to push your Twig...
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Celebrating 19 Years of Talent
Quarterly retreats are a longstanding tradition at Viget. Since our founding, we’ve taken a day each quarter to step away and focus on us. We come together, reflect on progress, share new ideas,...
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Value Over Invention: Breaking Down the Promise of IoT (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article series, we outlined a high-level overview of the Internet of Things and established a philosophy for identifying the value of potential use-cases of connected devices. Using...
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You Should Use Snowplow
What is Snowplow? Snowplow is a flexible and dynamic data collection platform that gives you complete ownership of your event data pipeline. It runs on the cloud of your choice, Amazon Web Services...
View ArticleFour Uses for ActiveInteraction
On a recent project we made extensive use of the ActiveInteraction gem. Its a Ruby implementation of the command pattern that works well with Rails for validating inputs, performing isolated pieces of...
View ArticleHow to use local unpublished Node packages as project dependencies
There are times when you want to install a local package as a project dependency. You might be writing a package for general distribution; or maybe you are contributing to an open source package, or a...
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Sparking Connections and Growth from a GOOD Initiative
There is a really lovely thing that happens everyday around noon at Viget’s HQ office: you can find at least two, three, or 15 people enjoying lunch together. We have amazing custom self-built tables...
View ArticleGitting Your First Dev Job
A year and a half ago I decided I was ready for a career shift. I had heard great things about Turing School and decided to try out one of their Try Coding weekends. I attended classes all day...
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Beginner's Guide to Variable Fonts: Part 1
Imagine a future where you could throw caution to the wind and use as many different font weights on a web page as your heart desired. One where you could easily create clever but simple animations...
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Beginner's Guide to Variable Fonts: Part 2
In Part 1 of our Beginners' Guide to Variable Fonts, we explained how variable fonts work behind the scenes and why you may want to incorporate them in your projects. Now let’s dive into how you too...
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Configure Zsh Options & Plugins for Productivity in macOS's Default Shell
Apple is switching to zsh for the default macOS shell. Zsh has a lot to recommend it, and if the increased attention leads to zsh support in shellcheck zsh scripters everywhere will be thrilled. The...
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The Power of Divergent Interests
After all, I come from the generation that lives and breathes “side hustle” culture, that was taught to pursue our passions, to shoot for the moon and, short of that, land among the stars. I also work...
View ArticleData Science and Cloud Technology (Amazon Web Services)
As a data scientist, the cloud gives you access to highly capable virtual machines, allows you to integrate with cloud-based digital products, and offers managed services to take care of your data...
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Cross-platform Augmented Reality with Unity
Unity: An Introduction Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies. It is one of the most popular tools out there for 2D and 3D game development. Over the years, Unity has...
View ArticleJust My (Proto)type
Question: What tool do you use to prototype? Answer: Yes.As the answer to all great UX questions goes: it depends. About a year ago, I wrote about design tools and what it is I’m looking for in a good...
View ArticleHow Teaching Can Make You Better at Your Job
This past year, I taught a graphic design course on the fundamentals of typography at my alma mater, American University. Finding a balance between teaching a university level class and working at an...
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On a Project Without a Project Manager? Here's What to Do.
You and your organization may be familiar with this scenario: everyone is getting busier, there’s more work coming in and not enough people to staff it, yet everyone is committed to avoid burnout and...
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Who Will Serve Us Content in the Mirrorworld?
A few months ago, Wired published an article that describes the "mirrorworld" - a 1:1 augmentation of our physical world with digital content. “Someday soon, every place and thing in the real...
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Evolving Traditions: Forgoing Free Lunch for Good
You may have heard of our wonderful tradition, Free Lunch Friday, which we call “FLF.” A weekly company-wide meeting, FLF has been a part of Viget since our earliest days in 1999. In the beginning, it...
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