It has been quite a journey since we released Order Status, a feature that will allow our customers to check their order details on delivery day, get updates about their order via push notifications in both Android and iOS app, and receive an email with invoice pdf attachment when the order is packed. Push Notifications for Order Status In the past, some customers, including me, would notice that we didn’t get an SMS message when the was soon to arrive....
Update: A chrome extension made using the same technique is available on Google web store now. Like a lot of people working in this industry, I prefer dark themes. If you were to ever look at my iTerm or Sublime Text windows, you would understand how pretty dark theme can be. My iTerm 2 Screenshot A few weeks ago, I came across an blog written by Heydon Pickering (https://inclusive-components.club/a-theme-switcher/), which describes a simple tweak to overwrite the current styles to get a dark theme and provides instructions for a React component to switch it on or off....
Naming things and vertically centering things There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.> — Phil Karlton Without any doubt, the tasks of vertically aligning UI components and creating a good CSS naming scheme are a challenge. In front-end development, there are some unique restrictions which make things even more difficult. In order to develop more reusable and widely supported UI components, the Peapod team has had to devise their own development practices and naming strategies....
The Battle with HTML Email Templates HTML Emails Nearly all online users receive tons of newsletters, advertisements, and account notification emails from various sites and online services. Marketers consider email communication one of the most important channels for converting new customers. Not so long ago, making HTML emails was considered to be bad practice. **When you send an HTML email, you have no guarantee that your message will be A) readable at all or B) visually legible to the recipient....
The other day, my friends were surprised when I mentioned that Peapod was founded in 1989. They were doubtful that people even did online shopping 28 years ago, but I assured them that Peapod really was doing grocery delivery and taking orders made via a computer. We were all curious what the site looked like, and after a little searching, I was able to assemble a visual history of the Peapod....