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Get up to date on some of the exciting features in modern CSS. Dec 5, 2019 Adam Argyle GitHub Glitch Una Kravets Twitter GitHub There are a ton of exciting…

<blockquote> * Spend more time really understanding the present and making it better than you do predicting or designing the future (the now is undervalued) * Leave things in a better state than you found them * Decentralise the decisions, centralise the vision and principles * Automate routine stuff, leave the complicated stuff to humans * Find (or create) and reinforce positive feedback loops * ~~Don’t worry about predicting the future, focus on understanding the present~~ * Make it safe to change your plans * Do the work to make the work work * Avoid creating bottlenecks, never be a gatekeeper * Avoid big, attention-seeking, resource hungry projects: find the little things with unnoticed potential that don’t need lots of energy - set a few of these going </blockquote>

Design Systems 12/16/19 by Shaun Bent Engineering Manager and Dog Dad by Gerrit Kaiser Senior Design Manager by Marina Posniak Principal UX Writer How we build…

There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four. They…

News What contractors should ask recruitment agencies about IR35 reform Back in mid-November, we were a bit down to have to report that as many as one third of…

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Colin Bendell 15 Dec ember 2019 Published in Code No comments You’ve seen it everywhere - that little thumbnail preview of a website mentioned in a tweet, the…

( This is the text of a keynote talk I just delivered at the IT Futures conference held by the University of Edinburgh Informatics centre today. NB: Some typos…

Over a decade ago, Burial came down to us, mapped a blueprint for a sound, and perfected it. But what followed his remarkable 2006 self-titled debut and the…

Mandy Michael 5 Dec ember 2019 Published in Code, Design No comments If you read Jason’s introductory article about variable fonts , you’ll understand the many…

Jason Pamental 4 Dec ember 2019 Published in Code No comments Everything you thought you knew about fonts just changed (for the better). Typography has always…

As a leader who primarily values team health, I place great value on the weekly 1:1 because it’s where I assess health. It’s my highest bandwidth meeting, and…

Carving out a new space .... Odd Future in 2011, left to right: Mike G, Tyler the Creator, Frank Ocean, Syd, Left Brain, Domo Genesis and Hodgy…

Design systems enable designers and developers to quickly create quality software on a massive scale. As the needs of software-driven businesses grow even…

In the 1930s Buckminster Fuller (he of the domes, but also of many other things) was doing research for the Phelps Dodge Corporation. His boss could not read…

A highly-flexible new variable font. Built to maximize versatility, control, and performance, Recursive is a five-axis variable font. This enables you to choose…

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Top highlight Core Beliefs to Guide System Strategy and Tactics Nathan Curtis Mar 24, 2017 · 5 min read I’m wary of design principles. I find some inspirational…

Stencil: A Compiler for Web Components Stencil is a compiler that generates Web Components (more specifically, Custom Elements). Stencil combines the best…

I’ve been independent 5 years today. Exactly one year ago I posted 4 years on the road . After an incredibly busy summer, my retained revenue had just dried up…

About three weeks back, fellow traveller Tom Critchlow shared his annual notes on being an independent consultant: 5 years on the road: Thoughts on sustainable…

Leveling up a design system’s multi-channel approach to messaging designers, developers and everyone else Nathan Curtis Oct 15 · 11 min read Operating a design…

You can have a comprehensive design system that contains a slew of well-structured components, thorough documentation, thoughtful guidelines, and a…

TL;DR: If you’re running into the problem of having to unify a complex design that spans across multiple platforms and technologies, Amazon Style Dictionary is…

The great escapism ... a Modern House-marketed property in Twickenham, west London.Photograph: The Modern House T he Drive curves quietly through the green of…

During my React based development, I'll find myself importing a module from '../../../components/Widget' and that ../../../ is anyone's guess if it's right…

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Many contractors are unsure about how private sector changes will play out Contractors have shown huge resilience in recent years, having been impacted by…

O ne Friday afternoon early this summer I drove down from Toulouse to a village called Homps, east of Carcassonne, parked in a narrow, cobbled lane in the hot…

Study after study after study into remote work has made one thing clear: Remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts. What’s not…

Maxime Blondel Follow Oct 4, 2018 · 14 min read This outfit was made with ❤ by KYMONO 🙈 I’m Maxime, I’m 23 years old and I started studying Search Engine…

What do executives do, anyway? An executive with 8,000 indirect reports and 2000 hours of workin a year can afford to spend, at most, 15 minutes per year…

I never planned to do a series of articles, but this write-up almost came as a natural follow-up to the post I wrote last week about Context over Control and…

I think about and enjoy very boring CSS stuff—probably much more than I should do, to be honest. One thing that I’ve probably spent too much time thinking about…

I T SOUNDS VAGUELY elvish, like something from the pages of Tolkien. In fact, the Charter of the Forest is one of Britain’s founding political documents, dating…