Links from 2019

WASHINGTON D.C.—The world's richest person, Jeff Bezos, unveiled his sweeping vision for humanity on Thursday afternoon in a Washington D.C. ballroom. With the…

It’s easy to overlook one of the most important elements of UI design: text. It hides everywhere – tucked inside button labels, scattered through tool tips,…

Learn how to build good navigation UX with the Portals API. May 5, 2019 Yusuke Utsunomiya Making sure your pages load fast is key to delivering a good user…

Remote Development with VS Code May 2, 2019 by The VS Code Team, @code TL;DR# Today we're excited to announce the preview of three new extensions for Visual…

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The X62 service between Edinburgh and Melrose is now bike-friendly. Borders Buses The rural mountain-bike trail centers in Scotland ’ s Tweed valley attract…

I found my first jobs on UpWork, where Robotics is quite niche field. Being a niche field there are not many jobs available (I’d estimate there are 2-3 a month…

A plastic box with a lid will keep wrapped cheese for as long as you need to eat it – but there’s also a neat trick using sugar lumps

We lend our members tools for DIY, gardening, decorating and machine repair, so that they don’t need to own them

T he mangrove-fringed coast of Guyana, at the north-eastern tip of South America, does not immediately bring to mind the Highlands of Scotland , in the…

Ian Nowland Apr 11 1 Summary A challenge of organizations is the aggregation of local information to a point where a globally optimal decision can be made in a…

Between the zillions of JavaScript bundles, cat videos, and banner ads that arethe web, it’s easy to forget that something –in fact, several somethings –have to…

TypeScript lets you annotate your JavaScript with type annotations. It can even check these for errors in build-time, so you can catch errors before they get…

There is so much great #SpiderVerse behind the scenes content on Twitter if you start following some of the artists who created the film

Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an…

The road to a better developer experience is long and winding.Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters The 2019 incarnation of theguardian.com began life around six…

Nick Schrock Oct 3, 2018 There’s no such thing as perfect code Code reviews are a really important part of the engineering process. However, they can become…

Lots of little girls love dresses and rainbows and flowers and pink. And lots of those same little girls love cars and robots and pirates and dinosaurs.

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On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser bug tracker. A developer had noticed an issue with Mozilla's nightly build. The…

March 27, 2019 How we made the country’s most accessible grocery shopping app (without anyone noticing). Feedback we live for Getting buy-in Make a compelling…

The extremely popular UC Browser and UC Browser Mini Android applications with a total of over 600 million installs expose their users to MiTM attacks by…

Deyan Georgiev / Manu Padilla / Shutterstock / The Atlantic When vine-curious Brooklynites walk into Tula Plants and Design —a small houseplant shop in…

Some time ago, Bootstrap became a really big thing. And the patterns we learnt back then continue to be part of our development process. But using CSS…

If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about? Erik Winkowski If you’ve ever put off an important task to, say, alphabetize your spice drawer,…

How do you deal with what a user can do on their account in a SaaS app? Can Jane on the "Starter" plan create another widget when she is near the limit of her…

Earlier this month I was invited to give an evening lecture at the Typography Society of Austria ( tga ) in Vienna. I was honoured to do so, as it meant…

New projects and how you, like ZEIT and Gatsby, can help out Merlijn Vos Nov 13, 2018 Written by Merlijn and Titus , with help of Jen , John , and countless…

One month of work, several hundred dollars, and lots of red tape. JudahGabriel Himango Apr 25, 2018 I recently published Chavah Messianic Radio , a Pandora-like…

What's On 19 March, 2019 08:30 ‐ 10:30 Creative Edinburgh | Creative Circles Leith Event A casual monthly meet-up for creative people interested in finding out…

By dragging icons on a screen, supply-chain managers schedule factory work down to the second. Illustration by George Wylesol This past December, the…

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Not everyone uses a mouse to browse the internet. If you’re reading this post on a smartphone, this is obvious! What’s also worth pointing out is that there are…