Links from 2017

Defining our jumping off point: If you follow many developers or web designers on Twitter, you may have seen the following tweet: No! Just because bigger…

The invisible parts of CSS 03 Apr 2017 If you use CSS in your daily work, your primary goal is probably focused around making things ‘look right’. How this is…

Chrome deals pretty well with garbage collection, so long as I’m careful to de-reference closed windows properly¹, and only uses a maximum of 150mbs. PhantomJS…

A doctoral thesis could be written on the misconceptions people have about Thai cuisine. These seven are the most common. 1. You can make any food Thai by…

Running QA tests for Segment’s UI was taking way too long. Sure, we had strong component-level tests for our UI kit. But to test our whole app we needed to…

Stylelint is a modern CSS linter. Here you can create your configuration file. The best way to use stylelint is to extend stylelint-config-standard , so you can…

Twitter Lite and High Performance React Progressive Web Apps at Scale A look into removing common and uncommon performance bottlenecks in one of the worlds…

Twenty-three years ago, Ken Lunde stood onstage at the Unicode conference–a gathering of people concerned with how every language is presented across the…

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This is the second of our overview series of the main hotel loyalty schemes. Each scheme will be covered over two posts on consecutive days. One will list the…

Designing for the Appearance of Speed T he jury has spoken: performance, conversion, and brand engagement are inextricably connected. Amazon has shown that each…

The video below shows a screen reader in use on the GOV.UK homepage: Screen readers are applications that turn on-screen content into speech or show it on a…

Share Share Banana "Ice Cream" 4 Ways Here's a video showing you how to make them: View this post on Facebook Facebook: video.php Strawberry-Banana INGREDIENTS…

This is a reply to a post on zellwk.com concluding that “So.. I’m sorry to break your bubble, pixel fans, but it’s a no-go for pixel based queries.” There are a…

New VAT flat rate scheme rate for certain businesses - FreeAgent Home Tour Pricing Support Log in to your account Blog Log in For accountants Tour Pricing…

Once in a while—not quite often enough to be a crisis, but just often enough to be a trope—people in the United States will freak out because a huge number of…

Inclusive Design at Microsoft It’s in our mission statement: empower every person on the planet to achieve more. Designing for inclusivity opens up our…

How it works Discover Blog Login A new form of association, transparent by design Open your finances to your community What is an open collective? A group of…

Here’s a little parable. A friend of mine was so enamored of Google Reader that he built a clone when it died. It was just like the original, except that you…

Anyone Can Be a Content Strategist and other lies you’ll find on LinkedIn Lying Cat from Saga I got a message from a friend recently asking for help finding…

css-razor is a fast way to remove unused selectors from css. Essentially, it accomplishes the same goal as uncss . However, it accomplishes this goal…

Unlike any other video game … Persona 5.Photograph: Atlus L ike Scooby-Doo, the Famous Five and Harry Potter, the Persona series of Japanese role-playing games…

With UberEATS , our aim is to make ordering food from your favorite restaurants as seamless as requesting a ride with uberX or uberPOOL. Like launching any new…

Google’s astonishing success in its first decade now seems to have been almost inevitable. But step inside its systems infrastructure group, and you quickly…

npmls2dg - npm ls to dependency graph Convert the output of npm ls --json to a dependency graph. For more info, visit the GitHub repo:…

Earlier this year, Jen Simmons asked the following question: From your memory, which browser has now twice the user base of Internet Explorer (globally)? (Don’t…

I can't help it. These are so bad/good that I'm making an effort to memorize them all. This is one of the ways I avoid being invited to too many dinners and parties.

Why Get Safe? We lock the doors to our houses, but our whole lives are stored on our phones and computers. If we don’t lock down our devices, all of our…

Paul Ford Co-founder, http://postlight.com, a digital product studio in NYC. Also writer, Medium advisor, programmer. Any port in a storm, especially ports 80…

This application is a living style guide, generated from KSS documented styles...with an accessibility twist. How this all got started We wear a lot of hats as…

There’s been a lot of buzz around Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) lately, with many people questioning whether they represent the future of the (mobile) web. I’m…

What if a user visiting an e-commerce site wants to change the language of the site? Or the currency? Thinking about currency, the main reason a user would…

Thirty PSC contactors will abandon an overrun £16.5million health service IT project after a NHS trust said it would declare them all inside IR35 from April 6…

The way that contractors work in the public sector is changing and it is important to be aware of how these changes could affect you. From 6 April this year,…

Welcome to my modern JavaScript stack tutorial: JavaScript Stack from Scratch . 🎉 This is the V2 of the tutorial, major changes happened since the 2016 release.…

Illustration by Kevin Cornell Grids serve well to divide up a predefined canvas and guide how content fits onto a page, but when designing for the web’s fluid…

Learn JavaScript using… JavaScript. Image via learnyounode . There’s a certain kind of old-school, backend web developer who, a long time ago, mastered things…

Checkboxes and radios <label class= "control checkbox" > <input type= "checkbox" > <span class= "control-indicator" ></span> Check this custom checkbox </label>…

Nicole Ginelli Ambient music has been on its second (or third?) rise for a little while now, but at present it’s rivaling the wave of the mid ‘90s, when it…

How to Share a Design System in Sketch, Part 2: GitHub In the first post in this series, we talked about the pros and cons of using cloud storage systems like…

Common architectural motifs can be seen across many of Brasília’s civic buildings. The final part of a three-part essay based on the talk I gave at Smashing…

There was no better time than the 1990s to be young, female, and angry. Riot Grrrl's feminist thrash finally offered women an alternative-music scene of their…