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There is now an update to RDP version 11 in the App Store. For whatever reason it did not show up under "updates." I had to select the RDP app in my account in the app store and then it gave me the option to update. It's now called Windows app, quite different.

Like me, most ND people want to go to school, want to learn. And I think it is incredibly sad and damaging that so many so many children and young people are being let down so much by the education system. We need to do better. We need to sort out our education system. It is already too late for many children but it is not too late for the ones who are still at school or future generations.

Kind of mindblowing contextual, generative UI.

Class names are an archaic system that serves as a poor proxy for your UI primitives, and worse they're co-opted in awkward ways which results in combinatorial explosion of weird edge cases.

An interesting take, with a proposal attached.

The Shadow DOM behaves like an <iframe> in its encapsulation. The Shadow DOM inherits some of the same quirks in the form of inheritable styles. Inheritable styles are styles that inherit the styles from their parent. Here's a list.

Great list. Also where they don’t.

How to manage bugs, missing features, intentional design deviations, new patterns, and more.

the modern and intuitive way to model, plan, and align your business for everyone on your team.

The punchline: We frequently get pulled into Catch-22 arguments and discussions. No matter what we do—at least the normal gut options—we lose. But awareness is a gift.

Lume advances the capabilities of HTML rendering in the web, gifting you new HTML elements for crafting graphically-rich hardware-accelerated visual experiences that include 3D models, lighting, shadow, reflection, and more.

A great hub post for recent thinking about web components.

This is the way to do it. It's also what tends to get cut in most ticket-focussed orgs.

Society should withhold all esteem and attention to a nonfiction author whose entire oeuvre spitballs explanatory social theory under the bad faith idea that he holds his ideas “loosely” and readers should too

Great takedown.

Avoid the damage and distress of glorifying the wrong model

YC is no longer an exclusive club where membership signals legitimacy—it’s becoming a broad index of tech startups. This decline will continue until cool, innovative companies no longer see any reason to apply.

In the gif below we start with a table formatted similar to one of Excel's many styling options which, much like the chart styles, do nothing to improve the table. Progressive deletions and some reorganization deliver a clearer and more compelling picture.

The 2 most common organization architectures, their key characteristics, pros, and cons with an example

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.