Pete LePage

Spent some time in Roatan, diving with Reef Gliders this month.

Spent some time at Wakatobi doing some diving this summer and it was magical to put it mildly.

Here are the slides from my presentation on Baseline at Armada JS in Novi Sad, Serbia this week.

I love scuba diving.

Here are the slides from my presentation on Baseline at connect.tech in Atlanta this week.

I recently had to create a new Raspberry Pi image, and thankfully you can now do it without the need to ever plug the Pi into a keyboard or monitor!

Do you want to serve a localized experience for your Progressive Web App (PWA) depending on the users language?

An unhandled QuotaExceededError when writing to IndexedDB or the Cache Storage API can cause user data loss.

Are PWA users more engaged than browser-tab users?

I hate that using SSH & 2-factor auth means I have to auth even for for a git pull.

Reading is critical to my mental health.

AKA How much have I spent on Seamless this year?

Update: This post is out of date.

One of my highlights from Google I/O this year was the Device Lab that Matt Gaunt and I built to show developers how their site looks across the multi-device web.

My project this weekend on my home automation system was two-fold, first I wanted to clean up the code and make it a bit more object oriented, but I also wanted to add a web interface that is accessible outside my apartment.

I’ve always had a fascination with home automation systems, things that make your life easier and computers that do the stuff that I’m too lazy to do.

During the presentation that John Mellor and I did at I/O this year covering building beautiful websites for high DPI displays, we summarized our talk into about 7 key points.

At Google I/O this year every attendee got a brand new, beautiful Chromebook Pixel - for many, it was their first high DPI (a so called retina) laptop, and I think many people realized how, um, not so beautiful 1x images look on a 2x screen.

Support for target-densitydpi in the viewport meta tag was recently removed from WebKit and with Chrome for Android moving forward to current revisions on WebKit, this change is now rolling out in Android.

TL;DR: If you’re using a semi-colon to separate values in your viewport meta tag, your site may break!

What is the viewport?

Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to make it easier for developers to build web applications that work offline, its a tough problem to solve.

Happy Blue Beanie Day from the HTML5 Hipster # Credits: Seth Ladd for the HTML5 Guy idea.

Everyone wants “apps” these days, on their phone, their tablets, Apple, has the App Store to sell apps for the Mac.

By popular request - a few little additions to the HTML5 Guy!

The last month has been really exciting for the Chrome Web Store.

A couple of months ago, I blogged about the anatomy of a great Chrome Web Store listing - and it looks like it’s time to do an update.

A couple of folks at GDD and other events have asked what I use to create my slide decks, and I figured I’d share and add a link to a little plug in that I wrote for the slide decks.

My leg of the Google Developer Day tour is almost over, and it’s been AWESOME!

Well, hopefully it’ll be near you - if not, let me know in the comments where you are so we can try to get some more of these events set up!

While on my way into work this morning, I read a post on SixRevisions asking the question “Is It Time To Rethink Website Navigation?”

What makes a web application great?

Your first chance to make a great impression with a new user is often on your application listing page in the Chrome Web Store.

How often have you seen this dialog, or something similar - telling you that some scripts on a page are taking too long while your browser has become completely unresponsive.

I want to devote some time to how Ernest and I built TweeterFall, the demo that we used for our I/O Boot Camp presentation last week.

In TweeterFall, when a new tweet is received, we notify the user about that tweet via desktop notifications.

Last week at I/O Boot Camp, Ernest Delgado and I presented a session titled Getting Started with HTML5.

I started writing my first article for HTML5Rocks.com the other day, and as I started working on it, I wanted to do something fun with it, something that folks could play with and enjoy, but still learn something.

Five weeks ago, I packed up my office and made a quick tweet and then drove across 520, no longer a Microsoft employee.

Time to continue my top ten list of web site pet peeves-and we’re in at number 8 with something that requires a little bit of balance, because for many sites, it’s a requirement, it’s the only way they really are able to provide the content that they do,…

Continuing my series of top web design mistakes that are often made by web developers, lets dive into number 9. #9 Hansel & Gretel would need bread crumbs to find their way!

As promised, I’m going to start my series on (as my friend Sarah called it), “10 Things I Hate About Your Website”.

Solution A Solution B 3000 mL Water (hot 100°F+) 32 g Metol 92 g Sodium Sulphite 94 g Sodium Carbonate, Anhydrous Mix above ingredients one at a time until dissolved.

The following bleaches work well for different things and are pretty useful.

Use what ever works, tools, cardboard, hands, etc.

When shooting our photographs, we all think in f-stops and zones, but when we step into the dark room, all of those principles are thrown out the window.

These are generic instructions for developing black and white film.

Often times, burning in a small spot or an area with lots of different tones can be very difficult.

Over time, many people have asked me why I sign my name PEte, as opposed to Pete.