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On the days when Bitcoin crashes, a holiday atmosphere takes over in my corners of the internet. People tweet screengrabs of Reddit fights. It’s always good fun…

For over two years, AMP has been a leading format for creating consistently excellent user experiences on the web, and Google continues to invest strongly in it…

This feature explains everything you need to know about planning your loft conversion project and, by way of an example, this step-by-step guide link shows how…

At GDS we’ve brought together a range of elements that teams can use to make sure their services look and operate consistently with the rest of GOV.UK. This…

Written by on CSS Wizardry . Last night I gave a performance-oriented talk at the wonderful DaFED event in Novi Sad, Serbia. In the talk, I go intodetail about…

Is your Git repository bursting at the seams? git-sizer is a new open source tool that can tell you when your repo is getting too big. git-sizer computes…

‘Greek tragedy for the new millennium’ … Michael B Jordan, Tray Chaney, Larry Gilliard Jr and JD Williams in season one of The Wire.Photograph: HBO W hen, in…

STEPHANIE RAUSSER For months, my 10-year-old, Jane, had nightmares nearly every night. She'd wake up screaming for me, I'd run to her room, and she'd beg me to…

Hi, welcome to the team. I’m so glad you are here at $COMPANY. It’s going to take a solid quarter to figure this place out. I understand the importance of first…

Gene Wolfe: A Science Fiction Legend on the Future-Altering Technologies We Forgot to Invent You probably haven’t heard of Gene Wolfe. That’s too bad, because…

Posted 27 February 2018 A few days ago there was a lot of chatter about a 'keylogger' built in CSS . Some folks called for browsers to 'fix' it. Some folks dug…

Picture this: you’re sitting in a car, and the car next to you starts to pull forward. For a moment you feel like you’re moving backwards. That brief feeling of…

December 31, 2017 Working on a browser , I constantly get to research and play with new, cutting-edge features. It can be a ton of fun to picture what the…

The key difference between a website and a web app is… highly contested. On the whole, I'd say the more links there are, the more site-like, and the more…

“When people fail to follow these bizarre, secret rules, and the machine does the wrong thing, its operators are blamed for not understanding the machine, for…

Europe’s imminent privacy overhaul means that we all have to become more diligent about what data we collect, how we collect it, and what we do with it. In our…

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ESM modules in node: npm edition The proposal you’re about to read is not just a proposal. We have a working implementation of almost everything we discussed…

CSS variables are the next big thing and their power is often underestimated. People call them “CSS variables”, which doesn’t describe their actual behavior…

Lots of companies want to collect data about their users. This is a good thing, generally; being data-driven is important, and it’s jolly hard to know where…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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 Longtime friend and collaborator, Matt Weinberg from Vector Media Group recently asked if I’d like to chat with…

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…

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…

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 Gallery Tutorials Resources Docs Support Download Principle makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces. Whether you're designing…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

[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…