 After undertaking one of our design sprints, our clients have launched MVPs, gained millions in new investment funds—and even design awards. With successful cases ranging from just an idea, to startups and pivoting companies, Head of Design Roman Shamin takes us on a look behind the curtain to see how it all works. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/mvps-prototypes-results-how-to-win-with-a-martian-design-sprint The San Francisco Bay Area Ruby meetup that we organized will be hosted by GitHub at their HQ this Thursday! Featuring: GitHub's Ben Sheldon, Ubicloud's Daniel Farina, and our own Vladimir Dementyev! #ruby Evil Martians are looking for an Account/Project Manager! This role entails helping growth-stage startups and Y Combinator alumni become “unicorns”. The scope of work includes product and project management, idea validation, deadline and task coordination, pre-sales, contracts, and visiting conferences. Additionally, if you have a technical background, that's a big bonus! Should developers write? We’re not talking about docs, code, or commit messages—but articles like this one! Nina Torgunakova says yes, and shares 3 reasons why it’s important, plus how to overcome 3 common blocks. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/why-should-developers-write-3-reasons-and-3-common-blocks Hey, Californian Ruby enthusiasts: devs, app founders, and gem seekers! On March 28, we’ll be waiting for you at the San Francisco Bay Area Ruby meetup, hosted by GitHub and initiated by Evil Martians. Be our guest or our speaker! Register or reach out to suggest your talk at https://lu.ma/r6d0lghm #ruby We’re looking for an Account/Project Manager! This role is critical at Evil Martians since you’ll work both with client teams, helping make product decisions and defining product development vectors, and with our own team to ensure we’re doing our best to meet customer business goals. (An engineering background is a plus, but not strictly required!) Benefits and responsibilities: https://wellfound.com/jobs/2715314-account-project-manager We've made sure this post is still up-to-date for 2024! Here's the classic guide on favicons from @sitnik_en https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-favicon-in-2021-six-files-that-fit-most-needs While developing Polychrom, our UI text readability plugin, Frontend Engineer Yuri Mikhin overcame a tough color blending roadblock by ditching the iterative method and shifting into a "declarative" approach that leverages SVG and the Canvas API. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/figma-plugin-magic-tricks-mixing-colors-with-svg-and-canvas-api Frontend Engineer Dan Kozlov shows how to make Tailwind play nice with CSS variables, OKLCH colors, and dynamic themes. Get reliable, predictable theming, work better with designers, unlock the power of colors—and stop settling for the same old palettes! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/better-dynamic-themes-in-tailwind-with-oklch-color-magic Our fall schedule is packed with upcoming conference talks for the Evil Martians team. You’ve got many more chances to meet us and listen to us at different locations around the globe! Come see us! Last but not least, we are announcing our final speaker for the Bites & Bytes meetup: Gleb Stroganov, our Product Designer, who will prove that you can take even neutral-looking icons to the next level in your interfaces. See you tomorrow! It’s a great feeling when you discover your blog post about OKLCH in CSS helped light the flame for Geoff Graham's OKLCH color space "love story" in Smashing Magazine! https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/oklch-color-spaces-gamuts-css/ Principal Backend Engineer Vladimir Dementyev's new book on crafting ultra-maintainable Rails apps, "Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications", drops tomorrow! In this interview, we talk about why this book is different, the "Extended Rails Way", the future of Rails, his attempts to convince his nephew to try Rails, and more. The second speaker to be featured at our Bites & Bytes meetup for developers and designers in Lisbon will be Roman Shamin, Head of Design at Evil Martians! He’ll dive into the topic of generating dynamic UI themes on the fly, which is now possible using the new OKLCH color space and our own, brand-new OSS tool: APCA Contrast Figma plugin. It’s time to reveal the first speaker for the upcoming Bites & Bytes meetup for developers and designers in Lisbon: meet Alexander Baygeldin, Backend Engineer at Evil Martians! He’ll look at the unique benefits of edge computing and help you decide whether it’s just another buzzword, or a useful tool for your toolbox (with real-world use-cases and a live demo using Cloudflare Workers!) Sign up to get notified: https://www.meetup.com/bites-bytes/events/295323429/ The date and location of our next Bites & Bytes meetup for developers (and, this time, designers!) has been revealed. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, September 14, in Lisbon, Portugal for talks on backend, design, open source promotion—and a lot of networking! Don’t forget to sign up and get notifications about the event! Awesome news: a book on layered design for Ruby on Rails applications by our own Vladimir Dementyev, based on his rich experience with the subject, is dropping really soon! Discover practical design patterns for maintainable web applications from our Head of Backend—who has helped build dozens of apps and open source projects. Pre-order it now! Setting up a staging environment lets devs try new features, practice, collaborate, optimize, and perform testing and bug-fixing. But what can small projects with tight budgets do? Frontend Engineer Ekaternia Shibakova shows a cheap—and fast—solution. Andrey Sitnik is featured in the new episode of the Devtools FM podcast! Everything about new trends happening in web development: the future of CSS and the power of OSS applications, OKLCH color space and the role of PostCSS. If you want to discuss them in person with our Head of Frontend, he will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin tomorrow—with a talk and a bunch of our signature stickers to share! https://evilmartians.com/events/andrey-sitnik-for-devtools-fm |
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