Links from 2016
← Home The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a new take on an idea that's been gaining some traction over the last few years, that is, to publish papers…
This is sort of a response to Adam “ @mrmrs_ ” Morse’s “ Webfonts .” It’s not a rebuttal by any means, but rather a collection of my own thoughts that at least…
- Use Cases and Requirements for Element Queries responsiveimagescg.github.io
Editor’s Draft, 15 January 2015 This version: http://responsiveimagescg.github.io/eq-usecases/ Editors: ( RICG ) Scott Jehl ( Filament Group ) Version History:…
Writing Speaking Training Work With Me How fast should your UI animations be? May 5th, 2016 This is a question I get asked a lot at workshops and talks, and…
- Do I really need CSS modules? davidwells.io
You might have heard about PostCSS and CSS modules but you are still recovering from the onslaught of 10,000 other frontend build process changes. The question…
T he feeling of despair that descends on hearing the theme tune of the CBeebies television show Me Too! is unmistakable. At 6am, it is the first show on the…
- Pinpoint by Greg Milner review – how is GPS changing our world? theguardian.com
We have all had the experience of getting lost while being informed of precisely where we are.Photograph: Alamy I n early 2008, for quixotic reasons that…
- Barclays offers 0% deposit mortgage to home buyers theguardian.com
The need to raise a large deposit is often blamed for stopping people from getting on the property ladder.Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA The no-deposit mortgage has…
- frctl/fractal github.com
Fractal A tool to help you build , document and integrate component/pattern libraries into your web projects. Introduction Component (or pattern) libraries are…
- React Native for Web Developers medium.com
‘Cause native apps do some things better If you were expecting all things React web at ReactConf this year you might have left disappointed, React Native was…
- On Building Component Libraries | Clearleft clearleft.com
28th April 2016 Here at Clearleft we’ve been building website component libraries (often also called pattern libraries or styleguides) for quite a while - in…
- Being A Developer After 40 — Free Code Camp medium.freecodecamp.com
Being A Developer After 40 (This is the talk I have given at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th, 2016. The slides are available on SpeakerDeck and at the…
- https://jakearchibald.com/2016/caching-best-practices/ jakearchibald.com
- Best Practices for Chinese Layout — Medium medium.com
10 Principles to let long-form articles more readable If you are going to expand your service into Asia. First, you may see the language wall (and then the…
- Auto-squashing Git Commits robots.thoughtbot.com
If you’ve read thoughtbot’s Git protocol guide , you’ll know thatonce a branch has been code reviewed, we encourage the branch’s author to use an interactive…
- Flexbox Patterns flexboxpatterns.com
Flexbox Patterns Source on GitHub Tweet this Flexbox is awesome, but it introduces many new concepts that can make it difficult to use. These interactive…
- » Pure UI rauchg.com
I recently redesigned and implemented a new version of VideoPress, the WordPress video platform. The process involved, among other things, creating a new UI,…
- Developing UI mrmrs.io
UI development as a first-class citizen The single hardest part of front-end development at any scale is making changes to code and understanding all of the…
- Hyper Light Drifter | Indie Action RPG heart-machine.com
- Challenges of micro-service deployments techtraits.com
I recently took part in a panel discussion discussing continuous delivery of micro-services hosted by ElectricCloud with Daniel Rolnick , Darko Fabijan and…
- Why I left GDS samsharpe.net
15 April 2016 In which I explain the many and varied reasons why I decided that my life wouldbe happier outside of the Government Digital Service after 3+ years…
Patterns mean a lot of things to a lot of different industries, from fabric patterns in fashion to patterns for sand casting metal components. Even within the…
- Layout Demos by Jen Simmons labs.jensimmons.com
The Experimental Layout Lab of Jen Simmons Check back often. This will keep changing. Includes the demos for: Revolutionize Your Page: Real Art Direction on the…
- sonder dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to…
Photo: Moving Day by Nicolas Huk Between 2000 and 2010, Bryan and I lived a somewhat nomadic lifestyle. We moved more than fifteen times, including stays of…
- How Boots went rogue | Aditya Chakrabortty theguardian.com
T ony was talking about how he wound up getting paid to care less – less about his sick patients, less about the specialism that demanded years of study, less…
- babel/babel github.com
Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript. https://babeljs.io/ JavaScript Other Latest commit 98685d2 Apr 11, 2016 hzoo Merge pull request…
- Origami: unifying our brand, making development faster origami.ft.com
- Semantic UI semantic-ui.com
React is a great way to generate static HTML with a component-based UI.One of the biggest hurdles to working with React is the amount of boilerplate and build…
- Aligning text smartly in CSS nocode.in
Have you ever thought of aligning text smartly in CSS? You must try now. No there is no CSS property text-align:smart or smartly Let’s see an example Here we…
- State of React and CSS — KADIRA VOICE voice.kadira.io
Recently, I started to work on a project that helps us to develop UI components isolated from the main app. Initially, I assumed everyone would write CSS in…
- Stojo – The Collapsible Pocket Cup stojo.co
- We've ranked the UK's four digital challenger banks techworld.com
As the dust settled on the 2008 financial crisis, the Bank of England started a process that would eventually open the door for a new type of bank to enter the…
- nativefier npmjs.com
You want to make a native wrapper for WhatsApp Web (or any web page). $ nativefier web.whatsapp.com You're done. API Documentation Changelog Development…
- Being self-employed means freedom. Freedom to be abused and underpaid | Aditya Chakrabortty theguardian.com
‘If a courier gets sick or is involved in an accident, the company can just drop them.’Illustration: Bill Bragg H ere are two things you probably know. First,…
A lot of contractors will purchase membership with IPSE (the association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed, previously PCG – Professional…
- England’s 2,800-mile Coast Path to open in 2020 theguardian.com
Going coastal … Happisburgh beach and eroding cliffs.Photograph: Alamy F or a small country like Britain, the idea of claiming one of the longest footpaths in…
- The Vibram lawsuit, barefoot running and science perspectives | The Science of Sport sportsscientists.com
Last week, Vibram, the company that makes the five-fingered running shoes (well, the first version), settled a $3.75 million class action lawsuit , bought in…
- CSS Animations: A Pocket Guide - Val Head, Author cssanimationspocketguide.com
Book Information: 65 pages ISBN: 978-1-907828-18-8 Live example files CSS animations open up a whole new way to look at and use CSS to bring motion to the web…
- CSS and Scalability mrmrs.io
Several years ago I got curious about how css worked at scale. When I first started out, there weren’t nearly as many learning resources as there are now. There…
- A Complete Guide to Grid | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
CSS Grid Layout (aka "Grid"), is a two-dimensional grid-based layout system that aims to do nothing less than completely change the way we design grid-based…
- Legacy Code for Developers: Managing your Manager - NDepend blog.ndepend.com
Here’s a campfire horror story of legacy code that probably sounds at least somewhat familiar. One day, your manager strolls by casually, sipping a cup of…
- Space Yourself – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Advertisement There’s more to spaces than the key you instinctively hit between words with one of your thumbs. Let’s find out what other space characters there…
- Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You've Never Heard Of – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Advertisement Have you ever wanted to use a particular CSS feature but didn’t because it wasn’t fully supported in all browsers ? Or, worse, it was supported in…