Links from 2017
- Language subtag lookup app r12a.github.io
r12a >> apps >> Language subtag lookup blog docs maps apps photos Find a subtag by searching for text in the descriptions Look up one or more subtags Check…
De Niro and Val Kilmer bringing the heat. Twentieth Century Fox Michael Mann’s 1995 masterpiece, Heat , comes out this week in a brand-new, fully loaded and…
With 35 years of game development behind him, Meier opens up about his inspirations, burnout and why his name is on the box J ohn Madden may be the only person…
- Easing Linear Gradients | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
Linear gradients are easy to create in CSS and are extremely useful. As we'll go through in this article, we can make them visually much smoother by creating…
- Folio - Simple visual version control tool for Mac based on Git folioformac.com
Folio lets you create and share versions of your designs and automatically keep them in sync with your team Free trial Try all features for 15 days. Viewing is…
- The Problem With Facts timharford.com
1. Just before Christmas 1953, the bosses of America’s leading tobacco companies met John Hill, the founder and chief executive of one of America’s leading…
- The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked theguardian.com
“The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound…
- Mobile First, Desktop Worst – Prototyping: From UX to Front End blog.prototypr.io
Mobile First, Desktop Worst An op-ed from the front lines of product design at MetaLab . First, a disclaimer: the subject of this article is Mobile First in the…
- Where can I find a good desk chair without spending a fortune? theguardian.com
Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next…
Benefits of a connected design system Over the past year, I’ve been working collaboratively to build a design system at Lost My Name. We’ve worked to define new…
- I’m Sorry, But Those Are Vanity Metrics firstround.com
Our taste for vanity metrics starts early. Take schools, in which most students receive grades. Does an “A” reflect the promise of a student’s future…
- Best Baby Carriers for toddlers older than 36 months old babyslingsandcarriers.com
Most people have the perception that children above 3 years old wouldn't need any more carrying. In a perfect world, it would be ideally so and good for all…
- Design Systems: when and how much? speakerdeck.com
Design Systems: when and how much? by Diana Published April 27, 2017 in Design Design systems are an investment. It takes time and resources to build and…
- Grammar schools: back to the bad old days of inequality theguardian.com
A brilliant early summer Saturday in 1967, as I recall. A knock on the front door. A kid who had been in the same class as me at Parr Lane primary school in…
Last week, we learned that science fiction author William Gibson changed his next novel , Agency , after the outcome of last November’s election. We caught up…
Sketching a Design System with React-SketchApp Playing with this amazing tool made by Airbnb T he design field is moving forward, and it’s moving really fast.…
This is a comic about the backfire effect. , Inspiration This comic was inspired by this three-part series on the backfire effect from the You Are Not So Smart…
Discerning yet hilariously unprecious … Jonathan Meades.Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I t is an iron law of food literature that the people who think…
- Creating a pattern library in Sketch, Roobottom.com roobottom.com
I don’t think its hyperbole to say that there’s a revolution happening in the design of digital products. Designers have long had the idea of designing…
- Combining fonts jakearchibald.com
Posted 28 April 2017 I love the font Just Another Hand , I use it a lot in diagrams during my talks: Here it is! Yay! The thing is, I don't like the positioning…
- Ten Year Futures ben-evans.com
Now that mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing, everyone in tech turns to thinking about what the Next Big Thing will be. It's easy to say that 'machine…
- Getting Started with Headless Chrome | Web | Google Developers developers.google.com
TL;DR Headless Chrome is a way to run the Chrome browser in a headless environment. Essentially, running Chrome without chrome! It brings all modern web…
- Implementing system fonts on Booking.com — A lesson learned. booking.design
Inspired by the recent work that Github and Medium have done to improve their fonts and thus the reading experience on their sites, we at Booking.com got to…
- Create Next App github.com
The easiest way to create a React app with server-side rendering thanks to Next.js — How to create an app User Guide — How to develop apps started with Create…
- Return of the KLF: ‘They were agents of chaos. Now the world they anticipated is here’ theguardian.com
It was towards the end of August 1994 that burnt, tattered and waterlogged scraps of £50 notes began to wash up on the shores of Jura, the mountainous, sparsely…
- Paw – The most advanced API tool for Mac paw.cloud
The most advanced API tool for Mac Paw is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native…
Hi, I’m Jeff Dunn. You may not know me in my new role as CEO of Juicero as I’ve only been here since November. But I’ve been involved with the company for the…
- Tax-Free Childcare moneysavingexpert.com
Tax-free childcare explained: The sevenneed-to-knows Tax-Free Childcare is a Government-backed scheme which helps parents with the cost of childcare. Launching…
- Tax raid postponed as ministers rush through finance bill theguardian.com
Plan to slash the tax-free dividend allowance from £5,000 to £2,000 from April 2018 could still be introduced if the Conservatives win the election.Photograph:…
- Will London survive as a financial centre after Brexit? theguardian.com
Will it be dark clouds over the City of London after Brexit?Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA B rexit has set a hungry cat among the financial pigeons of the City of…
- Painting with Code airbnb.design
Today, we’re excited to share a tool we built to help bridge the gap between designers and engineers working on design systems at scale. React-sketchapp is an…
- 8 Sketch tricks that will increase your productivity blog.invisionapp.com
T ime is such a precious commodity that it’s actually worth spending some of it learning techniques that’ll make you more efficient in the long run. And if you…
- Individualizing CSS Properties with CSS Variables danielcwilson.com
April 7, 2017 In “A Trick: Individual CSS Transform Functions” , I discussed how we could use CSS Variables (Custom Properties) to bring us close to independent…
- How we assemble web pages at BBC News | Wildly Inaccurate wildlyinaccurate.com
This post is about the Web Application Framework in use by some teams at the BBC. It is not strictly a framework in that it specifies the contracts between…
- Introducing a faster BBC News front page | Wildly Inaccurate wildlyinaccurate.com
Web performance is something I care deeply about both as a developer whose work affects millions of people around the world, and as a user who often accesses…
- The Overprotected Kid theatlantic.com
A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and…
- Put just £40 a week aside to enjoy a happy retirement theguardian.com
Newly retired households (aged 65-plus) spend £26,500 each year until they reach 75, according to a survey by financial planners Tilney.Photograph: Alamy Stock…
- N26 - The Mobile Bank n26.com
Bank Account Mastercard Pricing Support Österreich Deutschland España France Italia Rest of Europe Login Open Bank Account Österreich Deutschland España France…
- Home - Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC) digitalaccessibilitycentre.org
Default Stylesheet Blue Style Beige Style Black & Yellow Style Accessibility Introducing AccessIn - Supported Accessibility Maintenance Tool. Visit the AccessIn…
- Twitter mobile.twitter.com
Log in Sign up keith•j•grant @ keithjgrant Teaching CSS to talk like a designer — great talk on intricacies of CSS typography/spacing from @michaeltaranto…
- We’re building an autocomplete | Design notes designnotes.blog.gov.uk
We’re building an autocomplete. These are sometimes called typeaheads. They can help users answer questions, and help services get more consistent data. We’ve…
- When Does a Project Need React? | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
You know when a project needs HTML and CSS, because it's all of them. When you reach for JavaScript is fairly clear: when you need interactivity or some…
- JavaScript: What excites me in 2017 – Hacker Noon hackernoon.com
JavaScript: What excites me in 2017 The web disseminates ideas globally, instantly at zero cost. Because JS executes on the Web it has an unfair advantage over…
- Walmart: Agility Enabled with React.js, Node.js - InformationWeek informationweek.com
Walmart: Agility Enabled with React.js, Node.js Alex Grigoryan needed to attack multiple fronts as he revamped the Walmart Web site; the answer was…
Features Pricing FAQ Learn About Blog LOG IN SIGN UP use a web-based software to Visualize customer experience Create professional personas, journey maps,…
The way we design is changing, and so are our tools. This article was originally posted on the Abstract blog . Give people a tool, and they’ll find different…
- This handy little tool draws from Bloomberg data to add financial context on top of any news article niemanlab.org
The United Airlines debacle earlier this month began with Chicago Aviation Police forcibly dragging a 69-year-old passenger from a flight and continued through…
- If children want to run free, let them | Patrick Barkham theguardian.com
‘Britain’s child happiness statistics are pretty dire. Poverty and overworked parents must be part of it, but so are consumerism and a loss of past…
Putting it away: but there’s a massive penalty if you wish to make an early withdrawal from your Lisa.Photograph: Alamy Y ou know you should save for…
Brian Chippendale THEY learn to read at age 2, play Bach at 4, breeze through calculus at 6, and speak foreign languages fluently by 8. Their classmates shudder…