Links from 2024

How much coverage is provided by automated accessibility testing tools available today? Data from 13,000+ page audits shows the true impact.

A “number of issues” take, which is very different to the commonly accepted “number of criteria”, but ultimately feels apples to oranges.

Mainly here for the minor but valuable social aspect.

Small, oblong, sweet-tasting chocolate granules, which are sprinkled on slices of buttered bread or rusks. The name refers to hail, hagelslag meaning hailstorm.

Strongly feeling the "design systems should do as much as makes sense and no more" and the "design system teams should try to avoid building the entire UI for their organisation" problems.

Building flexible design systems just like my Nissan Xterra.

It is on us to create the environment to allow people to become the very best version of themselves. Start by giving people an A – and allow them to live up to it.

Making tepache, like any other fermentation project, is a lesson in co-operation

Top 50 global and top 100 US retailers by sales.

The fact that sales people tend to talk too much is nothing new, but Blair has observed in recent client work just how profound of an effect this pervasive problem has on sales outcomes.

Laundry cycles wear out fabrics – so try steaming, airing and slower cycles on the washing machine

An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

A major part of cultural stasis, then, may stem from most artists refusing to embrace contemporary aesthetic choices. In fact, I would argue that the Nineties ushered in a paradigm of rationalized, naturalistic aesthetics anchored in the meta-knowledge that artworks have a longer shelf life when they feel “real” and avoid mannerist/over-indulgent faddish aesthetics.

With a single logo, all that has to be done when departments change is an edit to the html of the relevant section of GOV.UK. This change is so mundane it attracts no scrutiny, even in the most turbulent political contexts. No drama, just a simple code change, as it should be.

Recommended structures and workflows to make your team more efficient

From my experience, Google now seems to operate on a "default to not index" basis. It only includes content in its index when it perceives a genuine need.

Okay, fast forward. We’ve spent the last 5 years making Tailscale the solution to that problem. Every device gets a cert. Every device gets an IP address and a DNS name and end-to-end encryption and an identity, and safely bypasses firewalls. Every device can be a peer. And we do it all without adding any latency or overhead.

This is great.

The term protopia was a new one on me.

Since the early 1950s, Marimekko designers have created some 3,500 prints. At the moment, the number of patterns in Maripedia is limited. We’re constantly adding more designs to our virtual print library.

Hurrah.

Giant hogweed is not to be messed with. Most concise, useful info I could find.

More general than the title suggests.

Good, brief JTBD primer.

In an age of shocking reversals, Yeats’s theory of historical cycles – “day & night, night & day for ever,” as he once put it – rings true. The only consolation the poem offers is the knowledge that, for one reason or another, every generation has felt the same apocalyptic shudder that Yeats did 100 years ago.