In defense of the young and foolish (web libraries)
Randy Luecke rants about the trend for single use libraries, saying most are reinventing the wheel, while not going all the way and falling short of expectations.Modular is not a trend, it’s a...
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Custom behaviors with Webhooks
Today, we’re unleashing a new powerful feature in hull: WebhooksWhy webhooks are amazingThe short version: We tell you when something happens.The long version: hull handles most standard social...
View ArticleIntroducing sass-getunicode
Last week I tweeted a “protip” which explains how to find the unicode of a special character to use it in a CSS pseudo element (i.e. :afterand :before).Find a character...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Easily deploy to Github Pages
Github Pages are awesome. You can easily deploy your site or app, considering you use Jekyll.… Stop, WHAT ? What if I don’t use Jekyll ? How to deploy really easily to Github Pages?That’s what this...
View ArticleHullstache: Mustachify yourself!
Hi there,We’ve already told you about our hooks, (remember?)As we were all brainstorming for a solid use case that could demonstrate the utter power of hooks, an idea came out of the blue:What about...
View ArticleBreadth vs Depth
Reading Jared Erondu’s post about Brevity in design, I thought the point was clearly made, but incomplete. Any form of expressions gains from brievity, and I think it is the consequence of something...
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How to build your own Twitter-like "Open Source" page.
We started releasing a bunch of open source projects lately and wanted to give them a little more visibility, make them more discoverable.Twitter has a great “Open Source” page on Github that served as...
View ArticleDiscover our interactive playground
Everyone agrees to say that the best way to discover and learn something new is to take action. We thought we should provide a playground to allow our visitors (and our users at the same time) to try...
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Reconciling SVG and Icon Fonts
(Thanks @kaishin for the cool title)Hey fellas,If you’re a cutting edge designer, you already work right in the browser. You need to iterate a lot to get to something that feels right. Icon Fonts until...
View ArticleTutorial: Commenting in Tumblr
This article is the first of a new series of tutorials to help you get along with Hull.In this post we will see how to add comments to your Tumblr blog 1.PrerequisitesAn account on Hull.io. If you...
View ArticleTutorial: User Registration
For this tutorial, we’ll create a registration workflow. It’s a two-step process:Log the user in with his/her Facebook accountLet him/her fill a form to complete his profileHere’s a live demo.The code...
View ArticleDemo: Inline recommandation a la Medium
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen!Today, we’re showing you the basics of the hull.io Javascript API client.To demo this, we have built an extensively documented and very simple review tool for your...
View ArticleStandards aren't defined, they're built
Today, Yehuda Katz published The Future of The Web, talking about the way standards are currently implemented, and introducing the The Extensible Web manifesto.This pushed me to finish an article I’ve...
View Article2 ways to log users in with hull and your own login system
Hey everyone,Today we’re introducing a new feature called “Bring your own users".In a nutshell, it allows the developers to use your own login system along with hull.io.Remember the blog post about...
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How to make Trello even faster
At hull, we love Trello, use it daily, but it’s UI is slow.To be more precise, the App is responsive and super fast, but the UI framerate is low when dragging things around. At least on my Macbook Air,...
View ArticleWhat single sign on really is, and why you should care.
Single sign-on is a term you see quite often, but represents a very misunderstood feature. As it’s name says, it allows a user to perform only a “single sign-on" across multiple web apps and sites.This...
View ArticleHow to link multiple Social Accounts to the same User
Logging people in with just one provider sometimes is not enough.If your app needs to integrate with multiple services like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, you probably want to let your users connect...
View ArticleIntroducing private organizations
You can now make your organizations private, meaning only approved users will be able to access to your organization’s content (comments, likes, reviews, images…).Users will still be able to log in to...
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The New Hull: Auto-batching, Angular.js, Ember & Backbone.js compatible,...
After talking with hundreds of developers, we identified several needs that our previous library didn’t address. In response we have built a more powerful and simpler library.We focused on 3 major...
View ArticleFor Shopify Merchants and Experts, Hull is Social Login done right
Here are a few of the not-so-obvious things we learned when building our Social Login app for Shopify. If you are thinking about building a Shopify App, or adding Social Login to your store, read this...
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