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The EU parliament is drafting a directive that will force private sector companies to accommodate disabled people when offering their goods and services. It has…

Dean Hume 15 Dec ember 2016 Published in Code Being a web developer today is exciting! The web has come a long way since its early days and there are so many…

Markdown Magic ✨ Add a little magic to your markdown ✨ Automatically keep markdown files up to date from source code or via external sources. Transform markdown…

Dear Designers, for two decades you’ve been sending me PSDs with the same issues. Dear Designers, This letter has been brewing for years. Parts of it have been…

Pacific Storm, photo and caption by Santiago Borja

I use Heroku for a lot of my quick projects and a number of sites that need (in my view) to be online indefinitely (this blog , my business Left Logic and all…

Resilient web design by Jeremy Keith Introduction Chapter 1 Foundations Chapter 2 Materials Chapter 3 Visions Chapter 4 Languages Chapter 5 Layers Chapter 6…

I suppose I appreciate the efficiency with which Techcrunch expressed its skepticism for tech’s latest unicorn, Opendoor; it’s right there in the headline:…

Illustration by Eleanor Ratliff I don’t believe in perfection. Perfection is the opiate of the design community. Designers sometimes like to say that design is…

Components in Figma Today we are excited to release Components in Figma . By bringing concepts like composition , inheritance and unlimited overrides from…

Posted Dec 7, 2016 by Henry Zhu Previous issues: Babel Roadmap #4130 , 6.0 #2168 Sebastian created “6to5” in September of 2014. Interestingly enough, he made it…

A little while ago I had a magical moment. We were building a web application and the product team had decided to phase out a certain feature. This meant that…

The web isn't experienced the same way everywhere. Select a country to learn more. Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Angola Antigua and Barbuda…

MIT has a storied history regarding hacking where the act is viewed as a “clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke” at the University. Hack is also…

If you're building for the web, you've likely heard the term "Progressive Web App" by now. Its definition is a bit vague and somewhat contentious perhaps, but…

What is modularity? Modularity, the principle that programs can be made up of small connectedparts, is one of the main ingredients of JavaScript’s rising…

Nobody writes CSS in one big file any more. You, the savvy CSS developer, well-versed in SMACSS , SUIT and BEM , are writing small, isolated modules in separate…

November 27 2016 Over the years more and more CSS methodologies started to appear. In this post we try to find the right CSS methodology for a certain…

AMP is Google's attempt to re-fight the transcoding wars of the early 2000s . It is actively dangerous to the web ecosystem, helps disseminate propaganda , and…

Recently, I read an article on testing that said unit tests are pointless. I'm inclined to agree. Why not focus on writing integration tests? Hit a part of your…

Link MDN # align-content Defines how each line is aligned within a flexbox container. It only applies if flex-wrap: wrap is present, and if there are multiple…

Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative As an alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings all your team communication into…

Between running FormKeep and completing dozens of client projects each year, we spend a lot of timethinking about forms. Here are a few questions we ask…

Idle Words > Talks > Who Will Command The Robot Armies? This is the text version of a talk I gave on November 11, 2016, at the Direction conference in Sydney.…

<blockquote>“The prescription that some offer, which is stop trade, reduce global integration, I don’t think is going to work,” he went on. “If that’s not going to work, then we’re going to have to redesign the social compact in some fairly fundamental ways over the next twenty years. And I know how to build a bridge to that new social compact. It begins with all the things we’ve talked about in the past—early-childhood education, continuous learning, job training, a basic social safety net, expanding the earned-income tax credit, investments in infrastructure—which, by definition, aren’t shipped overseas. All of those things accelerate growth, give you more of a runway. But at some point, when the problem is not just Uber but driverless Uber, when radiologists are losing their jobs to A.I., then we’re going to have to figure out how do we maintain a cohesive society and a cohesive democracy in which productivity and wealth generation are not automatically linked to how many hours you put in, where the links between production and distribution are broken, in some sense. Because I can sit in my office, do a bunch of stuff, send it out over the Internet, and suddenly I just made a couple of million bucks, and the person who’s looking after my kid while I’m doing that has no leverage to get paid more than ten bucks an hour.”</blockquote>

It has also made me a more efficient programmer by saving time rewriting because I do most of my mistakes before I start writing anything down. I want to move…

<blockquote>Boys need role models who don’t seek to glamorise slacking, winging it or sneering at the smart kids; who make it look cool to stretch yourself at school, and can tap into their competitive instincts. But above all they need grown men to champion them not by lashing out at girls, but cheerfully equipping boys to compete. Boys aren’t born bad. So for heaven’s sake, let’s not push them that way.</blockquote>

The Pitfalls and Complexities of Chinese to Chinese Conversion 汉字简繁转换的复杂性和陷阱 漢字簡繁轉換的複雜性和陷阱 Jack Halpern President, The CJK Dictionary Institute Jouni Kerman…

You can do and impressive amount of form validation with just HTML attributes. You can make the user experience pretty clean and clear with CSS selectors. But…

You may have seen many articles saying “you shouldn’t use setState ,” and the docs are claiming “ ref s are bad” …That is so contradictory.It’s hard to…

In this section UDHR Home Research guides and resources UDHR exhibit Contact us Translation Translation Source Abkhaz Office of the High Commissioner for Human…

Effective Addressing for International Mail Author: Frank da Cruz The Kermit Project - Columbia University New York City fdc@columbia.edu Last Update: Fri Sep…

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I think we can all admit it: our CSS is a mess. Everything is in one big file. We ship this massive file down to every page without caring that the page is only…

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According to browser statistics, Chrome for Android is currently the largest mobile browser, or is about to become so . Still, too few web developers realize…