Links from 2016

Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative As an alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings all your team communication into…

Between running FormKeep and completing dozens of client projects each year, we spend a lot of timethinking about forms. Here are a few questions we ask…

Idle Words > Talks > Who Will Command The Robot Armies? This is the text version of a talk I gave on November 11, 2016, at the Direction conference in Sydney.…

<blockquote>“The prescription that some offer, which is stop trade, reduce global integration, I don’t think is going to work,” he went on. “If that’s not going to work, then we’re going to have to redesign the social compact in some fairly fundamental ways over the next twenty years. And I know how to build a bridge to that new social compact. It begins with all the things we’ve talked about in the past—early-childhood education, continuous learning, job training, a basic social safety net, expanding the earned-income tax credit, investments in infrastructure—which, by definition, aren’t shipped overseas. All of those things accelerate growth, give you more of a runway. But at some point, when the problem is not just Uber but driverless Uber, when radiologists are losing their jobs to A.I., then we’re going to have to figure out how do we maintain a cohesive society and a cohesive democracy in which productivity and wealth generation are not automatically linked to how many hours you put in, where the links between production and distribution are broken, in some sense. Because I can sit in my office, do a bunch of stuff, send it out over the Internet, and suddenly I just made a couple of million bucks, and the person who’s looking after my kid while I’m doing that has no leverage to get paid more than ten bucks an hour.”</blockquote>

It has also made me a more efficient programmer by saving time rewriting because I do most of my mistakes before I start writing anything down. I want to move…

<blockquote>Boys need role models who don’t seek to glamorise slacking, winging it or sneering at the smart kids; who make it look cool to stretch yourself at school, and can tap into their competitive instincts. But above all they need grown men to champion them not by lashing out at girls, but cheerfully equipping boys to compete. Boys aren’t born bad. So for heaven’s sake, let’s not push them that way.</blockquote>

The Pitfalls and Complexities of Chinese to Chinese Conversion 汉字简繁转换的复杂性和陷阱 漢字簡繁轉換的複雜性和陷阱 Jack Halpern President, The CJK Dictionary Institute Jouni Kerman…

You can do and impressive amount of form validation with just HTML attributes. You can make the user experience pretty clean and clear with CSS selectors. But…

You may have seen many articles saying “you shouldn’t use setState ,” and the docs are claiming “ ref s are bad” …That is so contradictory.It’s hard to…

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Effective Addressing for International Mail Author: Frank da Cruz The Kermit Project - Columbia University New York City fdc@columbia.edu Last Update: Fri Sep…

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I think we can all admit it: our CSS is a mess. Everything is in one big file. We ship this massive file down to every page without caring that the page is only…

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According to browser statistics, Chrome for Android is currently the largest mobile browser, or is about to become so . Still, too few web developers realize…

A common idiom in our industry is, "You never can predict how the user will use your product once they get it in their hands." If you've ever watched a…

So I've had a week now for the outcome of last Tuesday's US election to sink in, and I've been doing some thinking and some research, and my conclusion is that…

The direction property in CSS sets the direction of of content flow within a block-level element. This applies to text, inline, and inline-block elements. It…

One of usability’s most hard-earned lessons is that you are not the user . This is why it’s a disaster to guess at the users’ needs. Since designers are so…

Migrating to Jest on the P2P team at PayPal https://unsplash.com/photos/_dwwHrYRWcM I get really excited about new tech I find interesting. When I first “got”…

The story of the referendum is usually told through geography: areas that had been left behind by globalisation voted to Leave. But this tells us only so much,…

Getty Images And how moral psychology can help explain and reduce tensions between the two. W hat on earth is going on in the Western democracies? From the rise…

Divided by meaning Cleveland, OH We are a divided country , split along race and class. We are also divided by education. Front row kids, many with post…

‘Elite neoliberalism unleashed the Davos class. People such as Hillary and Bill Clinton are the toast of the Davos party. In truth, they threw the…

On a recent airplane flight, I happened to catch the movie Groundhog Day . Again. If you aren't familiar with this classic film, the premise is simple: Bill…

A React wrapper for legacy handlebars components A React wrapper for legacy handlebars components Private packages for the whole team It’s never been easier to…

Webpack plugin and CLI utility that represents bundle content as convenient interactive zoomable treemap Webpack plugin and CLI utility that represents bundle…

The default implementation of tables in HTML5 Forms uses HTML DIV elements to render a table. Rendering involves using ARIA roles to satisfy the accessibility…

Repetitive tasks suck. How many times do you open your browser start typing github.com/projectXYZ/blahblahyabadabadoo ? Navigating to a github repository to…

phantom underlines . isn't this amaaaaaazing. i love waiting for 8 seconds and seeing this. look at it. srsly. looooook at it. I spent a week traveling around…

The nation’s number two online retailer, Walmart, has a brand new product line: Electrode , an open source universal React/Node.js application platform.…

2014: the high point of government’s war on Big IT Are we really this stupid? At a time when other governments are getting a grip on their IT , the UK is in…

Buttons shouldn’t have a hand cursor There is this belief that the hand cursor means “clickable”, but this is incorrect and potentially problematic. My hope is…

Every time a carousel is mentioned in a blog post, it’s a requirement to mention that… say it with me now: You probably shouldn’t use a carousel. Jared Smith…

Get via App Store Read this post in our app! If a GitLab project is configured on GitLab CI, is there a way to run the build locally? I don't want to turn my…

Naoyuki Kanezawa ( @nkzawa ), Guillermo Rauch ( @rauchg ) and Tony Kovanen ( @tonykovanen ) > Tuesday, October 25th 2016 (13h ago) . We're very proud to…

Movie screens are thundering with futuristic stories this year, from the final installment of The Hunger Games to The Martian . Both films started as books —…

The term "responsive images" has come to mean "responsive images in HTML", in other words, the srcset and sizes attribute for <img> and the <picture> element.…

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A while ago I wrote a blog post on creating a grid using quantity queries and Flexbox. I used quantity queries to change the widths of items in the grid…

← joren.co The Germans broke my CSS a while ago. Well, not literally, but their long words did. A few days before the issue occurred, I saw a talk by Zoe…

I was talking to a brilliant engineer friend the other day who mentioned they never get to build anything from the ground up. Their entire career has consisted…

Today we're excited to make freely available the new Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 3.0 . Ever since the indelible Danny Dover created the original version in…

On the last day of June, Facebook dammed up a stream of audience data that publishers once used to see how their content performed inside Facebook. Late last…