Links from 2016

Excellent, in-depth wooden train blog (Brio etc).

<blockquote>Be gentle. Be kind. Be caring. Be empathetic and understanding. But be in charge. Because one day your wild, spoilt toddler will be an angry, unsocialised teenager, and by then it’ll be too late.</blockquote>

- Lack of clarity about SEO rules in this regard. Eg: Will Spanish content rank higher than english one if I search in spanish? Or will google do a combined…

How to do what you love and make good money 2016-12-19 The problem: People with a well-paying job ask my advice because they want to quit to become full-time…

<blockquote>Automagically generate tests from errors</blockquote>

The EU parliament is drafting a directive that will force private sector companies to accommodate disabled people when offering their goods and services. It has…

Dean Hume 15 Dec ember 2016 Published in Code Being a web developer today is exciting! The web has come a long way since its early days and there are so many…

Markdown Magic ✨ Add a little magic to your markdown ✨ Automatically keep markdown files up to date from source code or via external sources. Transform markdown…

Dear Designers, for two decades you’ve been sending me PSDs with the same issues. Dear Designers, This letter has been brewing for years. Parts of it have been…

Pacific Storm, photo and caption by Santiago Borja

I use Heroku for a lot of my quick projects and a number of sites that need (in my view) to be online indefinitely (this blog , my business Left Logic and all…

Resilient web design by Jeremy Keith Introduction Chapter 1 Foundations Chapter 2 Materials Chapter 3 Visions Chapter 4 Languages Chapter 5 Layers Chapter 6…

I suppose I appreciate the efficiency with which Techcrunch expressed its skepticism for tech’s latest unicorn, Opendoor; it’s right there in the headline:…

Illustration by Eleanor Ratliff I don’t believe in perfection. Perfection is the opiate of the design community. Designers sometimes like to say that design is…

Components in Figma Today we are excited to release Components in Figma . By bringing concepts like composition , inheritance and unlimited overrides from…

Posted Dec 7, 2016 by Henry Zhu Previous issues: Babel Roadmap #4130 , 6.0 #2168 Sebastian created “6to5” in September of 2014. Interestingly enough, he made it…

A little while ago I had a magical moment. We were building a web application and the product team had decided to phase out a certain feature. This meant that…

The web isn't experienced the same way everywhere. Select a country to learn more. Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Angola Antigua and Barbuda…

MIT has a storied history regarding hacking where the act is viewed as a “clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke” at the University. Hack is also…

If you're building for the web, you've likely heard the term "Progressive Web App" by now. Its definition is a bit vague and somewhat contentious perhaps, but…

What is modularity? Modularity, the principle that programs can be made up of small connectedparts, is one of the main ingredients of JavaScript’s rising…

Nobody writes CSS in one big file any more. You, the savvy CSS developer, well-versed in SMACSS , SUIT and BEM , are writing small, isolated modules in separate…

November 27 2016 Over the years more and more CSS methodologies started to appear. In this post we try to find the right CSS methodology for a certain…

AMP is Google's attempt to re-fight the transcoding wars of the early 2000s . It is actively dangerous to the web ecosystem, helps disseminate propaganda , and…

Recently, I read an article on testing that said unit tests are pointless. I'm inclined to agree. Why not focus on writing integration tests? Hit a part of your…

Link MDN # align-content Defines how each line is aligned within a flexbox container. It only applies if flex-wrap: wrap is present, and if there are multiple…