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A few of the silverorange crew will be at the #a11yTO accessibility conference in Toronto this week. See you there @a11yto.bsky.social!

It may sound counter-intuitive, but we prefer problems to solutions - at least at the start. Jacky has written about how we like to work on design problems using a delightful hypothetical: Uber for Dogs. www.silverorange.com/blog/uber-fo...

A quick update from silverorange-land, which includes Manitoba again! 🧑‍💻 A great new front-end dev on our team 👩‍⚕️emrap.org has a new CEO & a hand in making HBO's The Pitt so realistic 🦊 New work with Mozilla 🚗 CarPlay & Android Auto support in EM:RAP's apps www.silverorange.com/blog/digest-...

CSS aficionado Maureen Holland writes about the enduring value of the CSS float property: www.silverorange.com/blog/float

The Web platform has come along way. You can play your guitar through a website now. It's not a metaphor. The Web is actually a guitar amp now. www.silverorange.com/blog/the-web...

One of our fine developers has written about the challenges of estimating and navigating a complex re-architecture of a key app component. www.silverorange.com/blog/complex...

Our lead front-end developer maureenholland.ca shared a nice recap of her experience at the #ffconf web conference: hachyderm.io/@maureenholl...

We're hiring for two remote-first web development positions in Canada. One is focused on #frontend and the other on #python. www.silverorange.com/job

Front-end web developer extraordinaire and silverorange slice, maureenholland.ca, has written a great post for the HTMhell Advent Calendar again this year. Her topic is one close to our hearts: Wonderful World of Web Feeds! htmhell.dev/adventcalend... www.silverorange.com/blog/another...

We've published a bit of a general news update from silverorange: 🎨 We’ve redesigned our own website 🏗️ Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP 📺 Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada 📚 A round up of articles we’ve published www.silverorange.com/blog/digest-...

Congrats to our client, AIR (Atlantic Institute for Resilience), on their partnership with CAN Health, providing digital tools to boost mental health resilience among health care professionals. canhealthnetwork.ca/digital-prog...

Responsive web design is about more than screen width. Our lead front-end developer Maureen wrote about how internationally-aware fonts, support for dark mode, and accommodations for color and motion preferences are all part of being responsive to people's needs: www.silverorange.com/blog/what-do...

Ryan Kay, a developer on our app team focused on Android and backend development, shares his Law of Suitability, and how it can help you identify the best water bottle, programming language, or development framework. www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-...

Hey, @neal.fun's delightful crowd-driven neal.fun/internet-roadtrip drove by the silverorange offices on Prince Edward Island! 👋

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #gaad accessibility.day Here are a few accessibility resources we’ve been appreciating recently: hidde.blog/a11y-faq/ makeitfable.com/article/how-... www.tpgi.com/are-you-cond... tetralogical.com/blog/categor... practical-accessibility.today

Helen, a great designer here at silverorange, has shared her experience with Sara Soueidan’s practical-accessibility.today course. It's targeted for developers, but it's critical for designers to understand the fundamental accessibility issues in the web. #gaad www.silverorange.com/blog/practic...

Global Accessibility Awareness Day #gaad is happening this week and we're sharing a bit of how accessibility factors into our work at silverorange. Our Director of People Management, Nikki Mifflen-Mitchell, has written about Accessibility in our hiring process: www.silverorange.com/blog/accessi...

The phrase "gild the lily" implies unnecessary ornamentation. Our Creative Director, Steven Garrity, has written for Smashing Magazine to encourage you that a little touch of what might seem like unnecessary ornamentation in design is exactly what you need. smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild...

We’ve redesigned our silverorange.com website, bringing it into its fifth era. In this redesign, we've leaned on the illustration talents of one of our great designers, Jacky Gilbertson who wrote about the design, the process, and a few (literal) easter eggs: www.silverorange.com/blog/website...

Our Director of People Management, Nikki, on how and why she came to work at silverorange (we're so glad she did!) blog.silverorange.com/why-silveror...

On day 16 Maureen Holland tells us why we don’t need the isOpen class. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Our own Maureen Holland has contributed to the 2024 #HTMHell Advent Calendar: htmhell.dev/adventcalend... It’s great to see Maureen’s expertise on display in the great company of writers like John Allsopp, Léonie Watson, and many others. blog.silverorange.com/htmhell

At silverorange, we use our Employee of the Year to highlight something (not an employee) that we loved about the year. In 2024, our Employee of the Year was the amazing crochet slices that Jose’s partner Anita made for *all* of us.

As part of our (remote) company retreat this week, we're seeing how far 38 of us can collectively walk. In Lord of the Rings terms, we've made it 10% of the way from The Shire to Mordor in 2 days.