Links from 2018
- The Way American Parents Think About Chores Is Bizarre theatlantic.com
Constance Bannister Corp / Getty The practice of paying children an allowance kicked off in earnest about 100 years ago. “The motivation was twofold,” says…
- Read The Markua Specification | Leanpub leanpub.com
The Magical Typewriter Imagine you owned a magical typewriter. When you used this magical typewriter, you wrote with fewer distractions. You didn’t just write…
- Manual docs.publishing.service.gov.uk
Manual Common tasks 2nd line A/B testing Accounts Analytics Applications Architecture Assets AWS accounts Backups Basics CDN & Caching data.gov.uk Databases…
- How to interview job applicants fairly : Anna Shipman : JFDI annashipman.co.uk
Some miniatures from Necromunda: Underhive painted to a very high level, including some freehand work, by Michael Szymanski. Charlie Hall/Polygon Since I spend…
- Everyone has JavaScript, right? kryogenix.org
Your user requests your web app Has the page loaded yet? “All your users are non-JS while they're downloading your JS” — Jake Archibald Did the HTTP request for…
Scott O'Hara 13 Dec ember 2018 Published in Code No comments I would like to begin by saying 2018 was the year that we, as developers, visual designers, browser…
- Securely using .npmrc files in Docker images – Alexandra Ulsh alexandraulsh.com
Building Docker images with private npm packages I recently completed a security audit of Docker images for a project. These images used .npmrc files ( npm…
- Everything Breaks – Rands in Repose randsinrepose.com
We’re going to play a really simple and really dumb game. I’ll explain the setup and the rules: Two one-person ‘teams.’ On a flat, boring surface, you draw two…
- The Edinburgh Clothing Store - The Edinburgh Clothing Store edinburghclothingstore.org
Introduction At Stripe, we think a lot about scale. As we’ve scaled our products to process billions of dollars a year for millions of businesses, we’ve also…
- A blogging style guide | Robert Heaton robertheaton.com
A blogging style guide 06 Dec 2018 Here are 39 ways to make your blog more entertaining to read and more pleasurable to write. Confidence Don’t begin by telling…
- Immutable Web Apps immutablewebapps.org
Introduction Immutable Web Applications is a framework-agnostic methodology for building and deploying static single-page applications that: Minimizes risk and…
- What I Learned in Six Years at GDS ◆ 24 ways 24ways.org
Anna Shipman 8 Dec ember 2018 Published in Business No comments When I joined the Government Digital Service in April 2012, GOV.UK was just going into public…
Fierce … Kate Bush.Photograph: Record Company Handout I ’ve been a fan of Kate Bush for nearly 40 years. Being a fan, like being in love, is giddying, it’s as…
7 Dec ember 2018 Published in Code No comments An important part of designing user interfaces is creating consistent vertical rhythm between elements. Creating…
Category: Free Agent Developers Recently, I was doing something that occupies a surprising amount of my time these days: using LinkedIn for lead gen. This…
- Language Specific Quotation Marks witch.westfalen.de
This page shows how language specific quotation marks are set with CSS andthe unicodecharacters for the typographical quotes used in several languages. The…
3 Dec ember 2018 Published in UX No comments Happy United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2018 ! The United Nations chose “Empowering…
- The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction engineering.linkedin.com
I joined LinkedIn about six years ago at a particularly interesting time. We were just beginning to run up against the limits of our monolithic, centralized…
- The right way to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion polygon.com
This spring, Netflix will bring the mid-’90s animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion to the platform. For fans of the series, it’s an occasion on par with the…
- Adding value, by adding values public.digital
This week I had the great honour of being named by the RSA as the first Royal Designer for Industry for Service Design. My hope is to inspire the next…
- When your design system fails medium.com
We’ve heard a lot about great design systems, but what happens when they don’t work out? Introduction Any mature application will eventually experience a UI…
- Details about the event-stream incident blog.npmjs.org
This is an analysis of the event-stream incident of which many of you became aware earlier this week. npm acts immediately to address operational concerns and…
- How to Retire Forever on a Fixed Chunk of Money mrmoneymustache.com
These last two articles have focused on how common it is for early retirees to continue making money after they say goodbye to the cubicle. I share stories like…
- Falcon Heavy Model - Flight 1 youtube.com
Falcon Heavy Model - Flight 1 20,154 views Up next Autoplay 6:45 TOP 10 Homemade ROCKETS Tech Planet 703K views 8:25 Flat Earthers vs. Falcon Heavy Launch hiith…
- We have liftoff: Edinburgh Observatory embarks on a new mission theguardian.com
Tourist magnet … the City Observatory, now part of the Collective gallery complex.Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian E dinburgh’s old and elegant…
- Micro Frontends - extending the microservice idea to frontend development micro-frontends.org
Techniques, strategies and recipes for building a modern web app with multiple teams using different JavaScript frameworks . What are Micro Frontends? The term…
- Mute Background Noise krisp.ai
Technology FAQ Blog Download for free App for Mac One Button, No Noise. Mute the background noise during your calls Download for free Featured by Mute noise…
- Staff Augmentation is as Staff Augmentation Does daedtech.com
Category: The Life of a Programmer I’m in the process of drafting a post entitled “What Do You Know That People Would Pay You For?” But what I’ll put here in…
- The 100% correct way to split your chunks with Webpack hackernoon.com
Working out the best way to serve up files to your users can be a tricky business. There’s so many different scenarios, different technologies, different…
- CSS Blocks css-blocks.com
- Chromatic visual testing for React chromaticqa.com
- The Product Pragmatist – ProductCoalition.com productcoalition.com
How often have you spent time in multi-day planning sessions, created a huge set of goals for the upcoming year, only to circle back a year later to find that…
- Inlining or Caching? Both Please! | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA filamentgroup.com
Posted by Scott 11/13/2018 Last week, I was finishing a section of my slides for a presentation at the Performance.Now() conference . In it, I was exploring…
- Git - git-rerere Documentation git-scm.com
Setup and Config git config help Getting and Creating Projects init clone Basic Snapshotting add status diff commit reset rm mv Branching and Merging branch…
- What I’m up to: tech leadership - Laughing Meme laughingmeme.org
I told myself at the 6 month mark of fun employment I’d publish my notes about what I’d been up to. I missed that. Did some yak shaving. Having a couple of…
- Redesigning your product and website for dark mode stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Implementing dark mode is easy, but designing for it is less so. Here are some things you should consider when designing a dark mode version of your product or…
- $stdout - Remote Life youtube.com
$stdout - Remote Life 228 views Published on 8 Nov 2018 Remote work is more than just a perk, it's a way of life. From being able to snack all day without…
- The best Apple Watch face and complication combos wareable.com
Sadly the Apple Watch doesn't support third-party watch faces, and while that might change, you're stuck with what Apple has to offer right now. But that…
- You Should Change the Reason People Pay You daedtech.com
Category: From Developer to Consultant Quick — what’s the reason people pay you? Don’t ponder. Just freeze the first thing that comes into your mind. It’s…
The proposed development for Leith Walk.Photograph: Drum Property Group Like most ports, Leith has always been a place of change – and never more so than over…
- Are you caught in the 60% tax trap? theguardian.com
Parents with two children can claim up to £1,790 in child benefit.Photograph: Getty Images/Hero Images T his week’s budget promised an income tax giveaway next…
- Fold N Fly ✈ foldnfly.com
A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions. The Basic Easy time aloft Basic Dart Easy distance The Stable Easy time aloft, acrobatic…
- Budget 2018: Hammond delays private sector IR35 reform until 2020 contractoruk.com
- Making your UI tests resilient to change – kentcdodds blog.kentcdodds.com
Kent C. Dodds Making software development more accessible · Husband, Father, Latter-day Saint, Teacher, OSS, GDE, @TC39 · @PayPalEng @eggheadio @FrontendMasters…