Links from 2017

Navigation & Mobility Automotive & Transportation Deliveries, Logistics & Ecommerce Postal Services Travel & Tourism National Infrastructure & Government UAVs…

With hundreds of frameworks and UI kits, we are now assembling all kinds of content blocks to make web pages. However, such modularity and versatility hasn’t…

Chocolat (2000, Mirimax) wasn’t a bad movie. It managed to get five Academy Award Nominations. But if they gave out Oscars for Best Type Direction, it would not…

As Uber expands to new markets, we want to enable all users to quickly request a ride, regardless of location, network speed, and device. With this in mind, we…

Crawl a website and run it through Google lighthouse npm install --save lightcrawlerlightcrawler --url https://atom.io/ --config lightcrawler-config.json where…

I bookmarked a tweet a few months ago, as it was a bonafide CSS trick and that's what we love around here. The issue is: how do we make a full-browser-width…

Design Systems Many teams are now taking a more systematic approach to design. But why do some design systems thrive and others become bloated and fragmented?…

In recent years innersource is a term that has cropped up more and more. As with all new things in technology, there has been a healthy mix of interest and…

Install the module from NPM or elsewhere npm install --save-dev react-axe Initialize the module Call the exported function passing in the React and ReactDOM…

Edit on GitHub Accessibility Why Accessibility? Web accessibility (also referred to as a11y ) is the design and creation of websites that can be used by…

Home Films Now In Theaters Coming Soon GKIDS Collection Studio Ghibli All Films News Store About Us All Films

Parenting : Who is it really for? 2017-06-26 For the last five years, I’ve spent at least 30 hours a week with my kid, just one-on-one, giving him my full…

T he Equilateral Triangle of a Perfect Paragraph is a theory developed by Matej Latin in the Better Web Type course about web typography for web designers and…

👋 Hello new visitors! Looks like this post has been getting some attention, bringing you here … welcome! 🙂 If you happen to like this kind of post: my blog is…

Service Worker has already been here for a while: since 2015-09 it has been fully supported in Chrome/Opera and if compared to what we have today it has gone a…

Kactus Overview Release Notes Help The new designer tool Manage changes, document work and keep your team in sync. Unlock true version control for all your…

This repo contains the frontend and backend for the Lighthouse CI server. Auditing Github Pull Requests Please note: This drop in service is considered Beta .…

By passing child components down instead of data you can avoid passing data down through many levels of components. It also makes your components more reusable.…

Autoprefixer 7.0 is released! Learn about the key features — and why the addition of Browserslist 2.0 is the largest change. Autoprefixer was released four…

Find out more Find out more LOVE THINGS THAT LAST for you – for your wallet – for our planet Shop by Category For ideas that just go on giving Gifts Look what…

Google launches rich card-generating, structured data-powered job postings in the search results As anticipated ( http://bit.ly/2sPkC51 ), and as semi-announced…

Make your will in 15 minutes For just £50. Tell us where you live to get started. Live support Always updatable How it works 1. Prepare your will Write your…

We recently released a new and improved version of Connect , our suite of tools designed for platforms and marketplaces. Stripe’s design team works hard to…

It’s finally here. And it’s beautiful. Scope Hoisting, “magic comments”, and more! After we released webpack v2, we made some promises to the community. We…

Someone who uses your app or website has a particular goal. Often, the one thing standing between the user and their goal is a form. Forms remain one of the…

Real-time chat apps are taking the business world by storm. But does faster communication really mean better communication? Illustration by @Chiachichao Three…

styled-components/primitives Announcing styled-components/primitives, an experimental entry point combining styled-components and react-primitives Creating…

#!/bin/sh## Example of a broken script.for f in $(ls *.m3u)do grep -qi hq.*mp3 $f \ && echo -e 'Playlist $f contains a HQ file in mp3 format' done ➯ ShellCheck…

June 26, 2013 Drop caps and initials are an effective way of grabbing readers attention because they add personality and visual strength to the page. Though,…

Advertisement Many companies try to create a great experience for customers. But few are willing to make the changes required to deliver on that promise. In…

June 14, 2017 The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching Since becoming a manager about a year ago, I’ve found that in any given week, I cycle through…

Modern DevTools A video based course to develop, debug & performance audit your websites. Level-up your web development skills and create blazing fast…

The text-decoration-skip property specifies where a text underline, overline, or strike-through should break. This improves legibility of decorated text and…

In the survey, 50% respondents admitted passing their sewing needs on to their mothers.Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto I t appears needlework is an art…

Guy Ligertwood UX Designer. Writer. Ex-Entrepreneur. Dad to Inty & Luna. Husband to Sandrita. Scotsman with an English accent. Living in Australia 😜 Jun 4 Notes…

Toby Melville/TPX/Reuters British Prime Minister Theresa May on her way to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen’s permission to form a minority government,…

We’re starting to hit a problem with the new CSS methods (Flexbox and Grid), and how people using a keyboard (or equivalent) interact with a page. I’m not the…

Martin Fowler Yagni originally is an acronym that stands for "You Aren't Gonna Need It". It is a mantra from ExtremeProgramming that's often used generally in…

Illustrations: Lucas Varela If you live in a big city, you may have thought about cycling to work. You will have weighed up the pros and cons: the health…

I had a little situation the other I needed to make one of those aspect-ratio friendly boxes . This isn't particularly new stuff. I think the original credit…

API design is a spicy topic! Many a wise word 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 has been written about the best way to structure and version an API. Within this article we'll take…

Roy Fielding on Versioning, Hypermedia, and REST Designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs for the Web is more than a challenge; for many companies, it is…

Translating the World’s Content to be Understood by Search Engines Automate. Scale. Leverage. Learn More Free 14 Day Trial Deploy Schema Markup To any Platform…

Have you ever wondered who in the world is doing schema markup and what are the challenges they face day to day? We were curious, and so this past February and…

WebAssembly was just released this past March but has already generated a lot of excitement in the web community. It’s a new binary format for machine code that…

It’s been four years since I wrote about Responsive Deliverables . Since then I’ve been working steadily with companies to build out their own “tiny…

NEW MWF Validator A powerful tool that quickly scans, evaluates and reports any potentially breaking issues on your MWF website. TRY THE VALIDATOR NEW Persona…

This is the prose version of a talk I gave in May 2017 at Pixel Up! in Capetown and at An Event Apart in Boston. It riffs on ideas I first explored in my…

History of QR Code How was the QR Code created? | How has it come to be used so widely? | And what is its future? Section 1 : Untold story of QR Code…