Links from 2016
- 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Escape the Brexit escapethebrexit.com
- "Tomorrow belongs to me" - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
Okay, so the idiots did it; they broke the UK. This is a book launch month and I should really be blogging about "The Nightmare Stacks" but British politics has…
- Never see localhost SSL warnings again certsimple.com
If you've done any web development you'll be used to seeing this every time you connect to https://localhost : Unless your OS has already been hacked - at which…
- “I saw things children shouldn’t see” – surviving a troubled childhood mosaicscience.com
The landscape of the Hawaiian islands is as idyllic as a postcard: long, sandy beaches, hibiscus flowers, clear waters of tropical fish and coral reefs. When…
We are playing since a few weeks with React Native for a Proof Of Concept and wanted to have the same development workflow for mobile apps, as we have for the…
Moneydance Purchase Download Developer SyncSpace SketchTo Blog Help Hire Download for Mac Download for other Platforms Purchase Moneydance Moneydance is easy to…
- State of the Digital Nation 2016 blog.marvelapp.com
In 2013, we explored the state and future of the digital consultancy industry, posing the question “ How, When and Where Will The First Truly Great Digital…
- Take control of your spending with these budgeting apps theguardian.com
Can smartphone apps really help you save?Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian T he lives of millions of people in Britain are so precarious that a…
- andywer/postcss-debug github.com
PostCSS-Debug Debug your postcss workflow with ease! Contains a simple, but interactive webinspector. Creates snapshots of your CSS files before/after each…
- Using React is a Business Decision, Not a Technology Choice — Future of Front End blog.formidable.com
Summary : React is a library for building composable user interfaces. There are many other tools like Angular, Backbone, Knockout and Ember that do similar…
- Why I’ve Voted To Remain In The EU facebook.com
I wanted to put down my thoughts and reasoning behind my decision in the upcoming EU referendum. It’s too late for some people (many have voted by post already,…
- Best Remote Companies and Remote Jobs remotebase.io
An open database of remote companies Add company Fully remote Hiring Retreats Flexible timezone Official < 10 10 ~ 25 25~50 > 50 VC Bootstrapped Consulting…
Splitting up large codebases into separate independently versioned packages is extremely useful for code sharing. However, making changes across many…
In the last months I’ve seen several apps creating what is known as a “Progressive Web App”. After 10 years of advocating using web technologies to create web…
- Introducing Drizzle blog.cloudfour.com
June 9, 2016 It’s hard to believe it’s been over three years since Dave Rupert wrote Responsive Deliverables , challenging the rest of us to start making “tiny…
- Computer says NO to HTML5 document outline | HTML5 Doctor html5doctor.com
What a brilliant idea! For the longest time HTML5 specified, and advised developers, that it no longer mattered what the number (1 to 6) was in a heading…
- Visual regression tests on every commit gizra.com
As we dive deeper into visual regression testing in our development workflow we realize a sad truth: on average, we break our own CSS every week and a half.…
- Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software for the Mac affinity.serif.com
Affinity Designer Professional graphic design software for Mac Watch video No subscription. Just $49.99 Buy now Free trial Imagined by designers, created for…
We’ve come to the point where we can’t go to (or even drive past) any natural area without Bergen (2.5 years old) yelling out in question and excitement:…
- Five of the best barbecues (and the gas vs charcoal question) thisismoney.co.uk
With summer on the horizon it is time to dig out that rusty old barbecue from the back of the garage – and then go out and invest in a new outdoor cooker. The…
- You Don't Need JavaScript for That! robots.thoughtbot.com
I often use a few CSS alternatives to common JavaScript interactions when I’mdeveloping the front-end of a website (especially a prototype). There are…
- Why I think Webpack is the right approach to build pipelines devlog.disco.zone
This post was originally posted as a Gist, but seems to have been quite well-received, so I wanted to put it here for posterity. It’s slightly less-edited than…
- Pass an argument to a Git alias command stackoverflow.com
Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Join the Stack Overflow…
- One weird trick for powerful Git aliases - Atlassian Blogs blogs.atlassian.com
(Yes the title of this post is a pun, apologies!) I have written about aliases before! See for example a collection of my favorite git aliases or peruse my…
- Introducing hooks: get notifications of npm registry and package changes as they happen blog.npmjs.org
Today, we’re excited to announce a simple, powerful new way to track changes to the npm registry — and build your own amazing new developer tools: hooks . What?…
- Breaking Out With Viewport Units and Calc blog.cloudfour.com
May 26, 2016 While iterating on a new article layout for the impending Cloud Four redesign , I encountered an old CSS layout problem. For long-form content,…
- Responsive Product Comparison Tables daverupert.com
I’m sure it’s not a rare use case, but between working hours I’m a mobile-only user. Young kids mean I need my hands free and not having a laptop in the house…
- You Are Not A Publisher medium.com
The content management industry has tricked the entire world into thinking that they’re publishers. They’re wrong. Try this. Ask anyone with any knowledge of…
- Modern JavaScript Date Utility Library date-fns.org
date-fns - modern JavaScript date utility library
- Building a Visual Language : Airbnb Design airbnb.design
Karri is currently answering your questions about the design language system in a segment of Ask Me Anything by Designer News. Click here to join the forum.…
- GitLab Container Registry about.gitlab.com
May 23, 2016 Yesterday we released GitLab 8.8 , super powering GitLab's built-in continuous integration. With it, you can build a pipeline in GitLab,…
- Exploring ways to export clean .svg icons with Sketch…the correct way — Design + Sketch App medium.com
Exploring ways to export clean .svg icons with Sketch…the correct way If you design interfaces, you probably work with developers on a daily basis. Your job is…
- How to stop Mac to convert typing double dash to emdash? superuser.com
7 Answers 7 active oldest votes 42 accepted Go to the system preferences and choose "Language & Text" In the "Text" tab you will find the list of substitutions.…
- The future of loading CSS jakearchibald.com
Posted 11 February 2016 - totally overshadowed by some waving gravity thing. Thanks Einstein. Chrome is intending to change the behaviour of <link…
- Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t blog.cloudfour.com
May 19, 2016 Many people know that you can scan your credit credit in Mobile Safari. But how many web developers know how to create a form that supports that…
- Understanding JSON Schema — Understanding JSON Schema 1.0 documentation spacetelescope.github.io
Understanding JSON Schema — Understanding JSON Schema 1.0 documentation Understanding JSON Schema JSON Schema is a powerful tool for validating the structure of…
Recent changes to the CSS specifications have introduced quite a few interesting features. Unfortunately, some of them are still in a draft state and the ones…
To ensure a consistent design approach across its digital services, the BBC uses a shared Global Experience Language (GEL). In this post, User Experience…
- Flexbox and Truncated Text | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
Situation: you have a single line of text in a flex child element. You don't want that text to wrap, you want it truncated with ellipsis (or fall back to just…
- AEM 6 Why Sightly? icidigital.com
Imagine for a moment, that you have all been assigned to a new team within our company. We have assembled this team to take on an important web development…
- Creating A Living Style Guide: A Case Study – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Advertisement Living style guides are an important tool for web development today, especially in large, complex web applications. They help document styles and…
- Updating a classic - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services —the predecessor of the post-war CIA—was concerned with sabotage directed against enemies of the US military. Among…
- What's a 'chuggypig'? Robert Macfarlane’s word search theguardian.com
Some of the letters and cards that were sent to Robert Macfarlane A few days after Landmarks was published last spring, the first postcard arrived. It was of…
- kristerkari/stylelint-scss github.com
stylelint-scss A collection of SCSS specific linting rules for stylelint (in a form of a plugin). Purpose stylelint by itself supports SCSS syntax very well (as…
I had hoped this post would never be needed. However as is often the case what we maintainers assume is common knowledge in reality is far from it. Firstly lets…
- Is the EU really dictating the shape of your bananas? theguardian.com
Boris Johnson leaves an ice cream parlour on the outskirts of St Austell, Cornwall.Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters Launching the Vote Leave battlebus with an…
As four people who are blind and care deeply about making the web more accessible, we strongly believe user testing should include people with disabilities. But…
‘The CIPD survey also cites bad management as a cause of job dissatisfaction.’ David Brent (Ricky Gervais) in The OfficePhotograph: Adrian Rogers/BBC A re you…
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