Posts about technical partnerships

Our last article about BoxArt showed how to use BoxArt’s Animated component to animate a tile-dropping game built in React. This time, we are going to look at some features of how Animated optimizes animations for performance. The Beastliness of Layout Thrash There’s a performance nightmare constantly threatening when you’re animating in the browser. As […]

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How BoxArt Provides Fast DOM Animations

• Tagged in:
• animations,
• games,
• performance,
• react

Have you ever tried writing animations into a website? It’s complicated. There’s lots of room for error, and no tool seems to fill every animation need. Recently, while writing some DOM-based games, the Bocoup team realized there wasn’t existing software for all of the projects’ animation needs. To help fill the gaps, Bocoup created BoxArt, […]

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Animating React Elements with BoxArt

• Tagged in:
• animations,
• games,
• react

Recent communication apps, like Slack, have lowered the barrier of entry for the use of bots to increase productivity. There are many techniques that I, personally, have tried in the past for time management, but none that I ever ended up fully adopting. Despite that, I always have been fascinated with what my colleagues were […]

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Pom & Circumstance: Announcing Pombot for tracking time and productivity in Slack

• Tagged in:
• bots,
• chatter,
• pombot,
• productivity,
• slack

We’ve long been making bots with hardware, now we’re making them with software too! They started as simple one-off “report bots.” Basically, helpful commands that anyone in our Slack could use to show useful information like who’s out on a given day, or how much vacation time we’ve taken. We also made a bot where […]

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Announcing Chatter: a library for making interactive chat bots on slack and more

• Tagged in:
• bots,
• chatter

To me, the JavaScript language is as beautiful and unexpectedly wondrous as a mini donkey. If I could propose a new cover for the book Beautiful JavaScript, I would choose this one: The reason I find JavaScript beautiful is that there’s something new to learn everyday. For example, recently I learned some surprising facts about […]

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Looking at JavaScript with “new” eyes: Digging into the specs to learn more about the new operator

• Tagged in:
• ecmascript,
• javascript,
• open source,
• programming language design,
• web standards

Sometimes I’m not satisfied with the way things are. I wish they could be a little bit different, just for a moment. I deal with this desire in my personal life by sighing and gazing through a rain-dotted window. When writing code, I take a more productive approach: I use seams. During application development, there […]

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Seams in JavaScript

• Tagged in:
• software development process,
• testing

Over the last ten years, the servers that power jQuery and its associated projects have evolved from a single shared webhost to a complex fleet of more than thirty virtual machines. Recently, I have been working with the jQuery Foundation to reel in this decade of organic growth by standardizing the configuration management of our […]

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Open Source Infrastructure: Deploying jQuery with Ansible

• Tagged in:
• ansible,
• deployment,
• infrastructure,
• jquery

Education and learning have always been a core part of what we do at Bocoup. From our earliest days in Fort Point, we’ve held classes dedicated to teaching people to build on the Open Web, the subjects evolving along with the platform itself. Over the past few months, we’ve been working on a new format […]

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Workshops by Bocoup: New Look, Same Great Taste

• Tagged in:
• workshops

Illustration by Sue Lockwood We here at Bocoup want to take a moment to recognize two of our team members for their work on WordPress 4.4, which was released this week: Mat “Wilto” Marquis and K. Adam White. Mat, by his own description, was the lead noise-maker for the effort to get native responsive image […]

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Bocoup ♥ WordPress

• Tagged in:
• rest api,
• wordpress

Illustration by Christine An Over the years, Bocoup has put a lot of open source work on the internet, and we’ve used a huge range of services to do so. In early 2014, it was possible to find our efforts hosted on Dreamhost, Media Temple, Linode, Github Pages, Rackspace, Heroku, DigitalOcean, Amazon, and more. Recently, […]

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Ansible-based Deployment Workflow for Modern Webapps and Websites

• Tagged in:
• ansible,
• deployment,
• tools and workflow