Links from 2018
I’ve always had this love/hate relationship with email design. Over the years, I’ve grown to love them, learning to accommodate their finicky nature. There’s…
- mermaid · GitBook mermaidjs.github.io
- The hreflang Tags Generator by @Aleyda aleydasolis.com
Generate the hreflang tags for your multi-language or multi-country site easily and fast! This tool wil help you to generate the hreflang tags patterns to use…
The best practice is to leave the default link behavior alone. Usually, this means that the link on a website will open in that same window or tab. Ideas we…
- The Case for the "Self-Driven Child" scientificamerican.com
We are raising the anxious generation, and the conversation about the causes, and the potential cures, has just begun. In The Self-Driven Child , authors…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress assesses student performance in reading at grades four, eight and 12 in both public and private schools.…
Adapted from “We Are The Very Model Of Modern Humanist Technologists”, a lightning talk given at # foocamp 2017 in San Francisco on Saturday, November 4th,…
- Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks sciphijournal.org
Many years ago, a friend of mine who knows about these sorts of things handed me a book and said “Here, you have to read this.” It was a copy of Iain M. Banks’s…
Books Bus driver raises cash via Twitter to give ‘magical’ poetry and picture book to all 2,681 schools Shares 1,082 1082 The Lost Words: ‘If it helps close the…
- Meeting Blur – Rands in Repose randsinrepose.com
Wednesday afternoon. 3:30. Tanya are I walking through a complex political scenario involving Product and Engineering. Nothing devious. Just complex. Many…
- Tag Manager Chat with Vector Media Group | Trent Walton trentwalton.com
Tag Manager Chat with Vector Media Group Longtime friend and collaborator, Matt Weinberg from Vector Media Group recently asked if I’d like to chat with…
- The fate of 'Target Size' | INCOBS incobs.de
main content activities product groups Current location You are here: Home Articles The fate of 'Target Size' Work on a computer Use the internet Make calls and…
- Making SVG icon libraries for React apps – Nicolas Gallagher nicolasgallagher.com
Using SVG is currently the best way to create icon libraries for apps. Iconsbuilt with SVG are scalable and adjustable, but also discrete, which allowsthem to…
Communicate What You’ll Do Next That Teams Can Depend On Whenever I chat with a new design system team, I ask: So, what are you working on? Some teams muster…
- Expansion and contraction factors in translation | Andiamo! The Language Professionals andiamo.co.uk
Did you know that when English text is translated into Spanish, it expands by approximately 25%? Or that when the same piece of text is translated into Finnish,…
Internet Around the world, a handful of visionaries are plotting an alternative online future. Is it really possible to remake the internet in a way that’s…
Ask any team that works with a design system, and you’ll find the benefits are clear—designers and developers are more productive, products are more consistent,…
- Principle - Animated Design principleformac.com
Principle Gallery Tutorials Resources Docs Support Download Principle makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces. Whether you're designing…
- Article Performance Leaderboard projects.hearstnp.com
More Information Lets state the obvious, this is an imperfect and evolving measure and the goal is to foster discussion and rivalry in making our pages better,…
- Why Japanese Web Design Is So… Different randomwire.com
In the mind’s eye of many people Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens , serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary…
A variable font is a single font file which behaves like multiple styles. (I wrote more about them here in an extract from my Web Typography book). There are…
- How to make a proper compressed favicon.ico forum.getkirby.com
This one might seem a bit nit-picky, but to me it’s simply a matter of how I do things anyway, while doing em’ better. So here we go Make some regular 16px,…
- Zadie Smith: ‘I have a very messy and chaotic mind’ theguardian.com
Z adie Smith’s second collection of essays, Feel Free , could be described as a tour through her enthusiasms punctuated with diversions. She writes with equal…
- TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses ben-evans.com
Two months ago I gave a presentation talking about the fundamental structural trends in tech - on the one hand, we talk about what we can build on the…
- Keep webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance slack.engineering
webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its batteries-included nature and the ocean of third-party…
- Robin Rendle › Inconsistencies and productivity robinrendle.com
I was chatting with my pal Jules Forrest earlier today—she happens to be one of the best designers and developers that I know—and she mentioned something really…
- Introducing Sketch Icons – Prototypr blog.prototypr.io
Generate a dynamic icons library in Sketch in less than 5 minutes. 🎉 Sketch Icons was featured on Product Hunt last week! 🎉 Check out the post:…
- The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry theguardian.com
H uman beings are born too soon. Within hours of arriving in the world, a baby antelope can clamber up to a wobbly standing position; a day-old zebra foal can…
- A techie’s rough guide to GDPR cennydd.com
[This was originally written for my upcoming book Future Ethics , but might be too boring to make the final draft. I must stress this post does not constitute…
- Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows chocolatey.org
| | © 2017 Chocolatey Software, Inc. © 2011 - 2017 RealDimensions Software, LLC. Deployed from ef553b5f7d . You are on web.3. Page generated 11 Jan 2018…
- How the Sausage Gets Made: The Hidden Work of Content alistapart.com
Illustration by Dougal MacPherson I won an Emmy for keeping a website free of dick pics. Officially, my award certificate says I was on a team that won a 2014…
- Products Over Projects martinfowler.com
Software projects are a popular way of funding and organizing software development. They organize work into temporary, build-only teams and are funded with…
The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all. It’s been a frantic week of security scares — it seems…
The title attribute gets a lot of flack . And largely the disdain towards the attribute is quite justified. In June of 1993, twenty-four and a half years ago,…
- Act Last, Read the Room, and Taste the Soup randsinrepose.com
The quiet is my favorite attribute of a holiday break. My various Slacks are quiet, the house is quiet, and while takes three days of quiet, eventually my head…
A sample gene ontology model from http://wandora.org/wiki/Topic_map_conversion_of_Gene_Ontology For the last year I have been slowly moving to the realization…
- Lighthouse Scoring Guide | Tools for Web Developers | Google Developers developers.google.com
The scores that you see at the top of your Lighthouse report represent the page's score forthat particular category. This guide explains how Lighthouse…
- Why you can't test a screen reader (yet)! robdodson.me
When I first started to learn about accessibility I wanted to write automated tests to ensure that assistive technology devices, like screen readers, were…
- Progressive Image Loading using Intersection Observer and SQIP calendar.perfplanet.com
If you visit sites such as Facebook, Pinterest or Medium regularly, you may have noticed that the first time you load the page, you’ll see a page with low…
❦ Robust Client-Side JavaScript A Developer’s Guide The JavaScript programming language is an essential tool of web developers today. Websites ship more and…
- Dude, you broke the future! - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
This is the text of my keynote speech at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 2017. (You can also watch it on YouTube, but it runs to…
- Using React Fragments for the first time javascriptplayground.com
React v16 was a very exciting release for React, and included many new features. In the recent React 16.2 release , improved support for Fragments was…