Links from 2017
- To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet motherboard.vice.com
The Federal Communications Commission will announce a full repeal of net neutrality protections Wednesday, according to the New York Times and several other…
As we build sites more heavily reliant on JavaScript, we sometimes pay for what we send down in ways that we can’t always easily see. In this post, I’ll cover…
- Localisation and Translation on the Web bitsofco.de
Coming from the English-speaking world, it can be easy to maintain the bubble that is the English-speaking World Wide Web. But in fact, more than half of web…
I n early 1984, executives at the telephone company Pacific Bell made a fateful decision. For decades, the company had enjoyed a virtual monopoly on telephone…
P.F. Chang’s finance chief said he switched the company to Adaptive Insights from Excel because it fosters collaboration and cuts down on administrative tasks.…
- Lona (Developer Preview) github.com
- Service Workers Break the Browser’s Refresh Button by Default; Here’s Why redfin.engineering
Service Workers Break the Browser’s Refresh Button by Default; Here’s Why Service Workers are like apps. You can’t safely upgrade an app while it’s still…
Hundreds of web firms are tracking every single keystroke made by visitors, a study from Princeton University has suggested. The technique - known as session…
- Of SVG, Minification and Gzip – Noteworthy — The Journal Blog blog.usejournal.com
Smaller files are downloaded faster, so making an asset file size smaller before sending it to a client is a good thing to do. Actually, it’s not just a good…
- Another Tor Browser Feature Makes It Into Firefox: First-Party Isolation bleepingcomputer.com
Unbeknown to most users, Mozilla added a privacy-enhancing feature to the Firefox browser over the summer that can help users block online advertisers from…
- The Cost Center Trap leanessays.com
In the 1960’s, IT was largely an in-house back-office function focused on process automation and cost reduction. Today, IT plays a significant strategic and…
I like React as a templating engine , not only on the client side but on the server as well. Over the last year or two rendering templates with React.js on the…
- A founder's playbook: Lessons from what I did wrong collynahart.com
It’s taken me far too long to face this question honestly and openly, but I realise how useful it might be for people who are also starting their own companies,…
- Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases simonwillison.net
A tool for creating and publishing JSON APIs for SQLite databases, instantly creating a url-based interface for accessing (but not writing) your data via JSON(o) calls.
- Introducing Postlight’s WordPress + React Starter Kit trackchanges.postlight.com
People who publish on the web love WordPress . Engineers love React . With some research, configuration, and trial and error, you can have both — but we’d like…
The news about Facebook dropping the patent clause and re-licensing of React under the MIT license brought some sort of relief to the WordPress community. But…
- Happier HTML5 Form Validation daverupert.com
I recently embarked on improving the client-side form validation for a client. There were about 400 lines of form validation code stuffed inside a 1000 line…
Journalism & News copied to clipboard Jeff Chang Group Product Manager, Search Published Nov 16, 2017 copied to clipboard Every day approximately 50,000 web…
- Building Flexible Design Systems speakerdeck.com
Published November 1, 2017 in Design Yesenia Perez-Cruz 4 Presentations Star this Talk Published in Design Stats 5,940 Views Share Download PDF Other…
- The User Experience of Design Systems runemadsen.com
On Google’s Material Design and the Templatization of Digital Products This is a transcription of a keynote given at UX Camp Copenhagen in May, 2017. Thanks so…
- How to use SVG as a Placeholder, and Other Image Loading Techniques medium.freecodecamp.org
Generating SVGs from images can be used for placeholders. Keep reading! I’m passionate about image performance optimisation and making images load fast on the…
- Bose Sleepbuds can silence snores and barking dogs theverge.com
Image: Bose Two years ago we discovered a rather remarkable set of smart earplugs from a company called Hush that could silence the noise around you as you…
- Is text sizing dead? | AlastairC alastairc.ac
I was listening to Shop Talk show 287 , where Chris and Dave were wondering about the old mantras about text-sizing / media queries not being in pixels, I think…
- html-sketchapp github.com
Experimental HTML to Sketch export solution. What it can do? It turns HTML nodes into Sketch layers or symbols. Additionally, it allows to export shared text…
- ‘Learning to live’: why sophrology is the new mindfulness theguardian.com
‘Sophrology uses mental and physical exercises to achieve an alert mind in a relaxed body.’Photograph: Mint Images/Rex/Shutterstock W e have welcomed…
- Inclusive Design Checklist github.com
Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever. Includes items for accessibility, performance, device support, interoperability, and…
- The online brokers taking the misery out of mortgages theguardian.com
Mortgages made easy ... online brokers make the process hassle-free.Photograph: Alamy T hey market themselves as a hassle-free way to get a home loan, where you…
Gut feeling is good but data-driven UX design is better. Still, the collectible data can be overwhelming, and the product teams might be working toward…
- Designing Adobe’s Evolving Brand System – Prototypr blog.prototypr.io
A few weeks ago at Adobe MAX, we unveiled a few updates to the Adobe brand system. There were two significant changes: the redesign of the file type system…
- ARIA is Spackle, Not Rebar | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
Much like their physical counterparts, the materials we use to build websites have purpose. To use them without understanding their strengths and limitations is…
- Views from the Top - ACM Queue queue.acm.org
The September/October issue of acmqueue is out now The Soft Side of Software Business/Management PDF October 31, 2017 Volume 15, issue 5 Views from the Top Try…
- Resource Hints w3c.github.io
This specification defines the , , , and relationships of the HTML Link Element (``). These primitives enable the developer, and the server generating or…
- Web Performance & Security: how to master Third Party Content impacts | DareBoost Blog blog.dareboost.com
Third-party content are parasites. Friendly ones, with – most of the time – good intentions. But parasites anyway. Let’s discover some useful tips and…
- The Front-End Performance Challenge: Make Your Site Blazingly Fast And Win Some Smashing Prizes – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Not too long ago, front-end performance was a mere afterthought. Something that was postponed to the end of a project and that didn’t go much beyond…
- Crownpeak's Quality Management Solution | Crownpeak crownpeak.com
QUALITY MANAGEMENT Ensure consistency across your entire digital footprint The only Digital Experience Management solution with automated Digital Quality…
- Chinese Standard Web Fonts: A Guide to CSS Font Family Declarations for Web Design in Simplified Chinese - Kendra Schaefer kendraschaefer.com
June 11, 2012 Massive Google fail. Since days of searching have brought me no closer to answering my most pressing Chinese font questions, I bit the bullet and…
I’m James Bridle . I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking…
- Watership Down author Richard Adams: I just can’t do humans theguardian.com
Bedtime chiller … Richard Adams, now 94, at home in Hampshire.Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian R ichard Adams, no stranger to terrifying children with his…
- Right-To-Left Development In Mobile Design – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Right-To-Left Development In Mobile Design
- Creating an Accessible React Website - Paul Cowan thesoftwaresimpleton.com
I’ve recently been working on an online application form in the form of a multistep wizard that had strict accessibility requirements. I’ve never worked on a…
- The Existential Terror of Battle Royale blog.codinghorror.com
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most…
Introduction js-joda is an immutable date and time library for javascript. It provides a simple, domain-driven and clean API based on the ISO8601 calendar.…
Here is what you need to know when going on holiday abroad with children who have a different surname from you. If you are travelling to another country with a…
- Captchas Suck - Axess Lab axesslab.com
Introducing the evil Nobody likes captchas. They are at best an irritating, conversion-killing step users need to get past. At worst, they can be a complete…
Managing Font Loading CSS Was Painful—Not Anymore 01 November 2017 Read in about 1 minute One of the most painful pieces of maintaining a web font loading…
- A Responsive Accessible Table adrianroselli.com
November 2, 2017 ; Painfully slow demonstration of the example table resizing and different media queries kicking in. After writing (again) that it is ok to use…
- My approach to using z-index – Hacker Noon hackernoon.com
The last time I got straight to the point people seemed to appreciate it. So… The short version Categorise all uses of z-index as either local or global. Local…
- Making a (privacy) statement iapp.org
This week, the IAPP posted a new privacy statement . We encourage our members not only to read it so they can better understand what personal information the…
A Bone to Pick with Skeleton Screens , Senior User Experience Designer , and User Experience Designer Article Categories: #Design & Content , #User Experience ,…
- How To Clean and Wash Raw Denim Jeans heddels.com
How To Clean and Wash Your Raw Denim – Tips, Instructions, Video Mar 28, 2011 | by The first thing many people say at the mention of raw denim is, “Those are…