I’ll be speaking about designing for reading and writing, screen and paper, at Papiersaal Zürich, this evening.
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If you want to find the actual upload time use this handy tool from Amnesty which also helps you find duplicates 3/3
“Human ignorance is more fundamental and more consequential than the illusion of understanding.”
Metadata makes it happen: Responsive design podcast w/ @storyneedle @RWD #rwd
U.S. Bombs, Destroys Khorasan Group Stronghold in Afghanistan > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Article
Official DoD press release incorrectly claims ISIS Wilayat Khorasan is "also known as Khorasan group."
This article by Olivier Roy is by far the best, most enlightening thing that I've read on radicalisation.
RT @Pinboard: “Asking computer nerds to design social software is like hiring a Mormon bartender.” This is a rant I wrote in 2011:
PSA — the Disable HTML5 Autoplay Chrome extension turns web browsing into a gloriously quiet library:
Love hearing about the backstory behind designers. Podcast with Alex Valdman, Rapha: #50mins
@jon @aarondfrancis @jareddipane Yes. It also works great over wifi if you have the app installed on your phone
The muji hut — ~$30,000 coming fall 2017
New post: Stop talking, start listening #ux #design
Some very good points. “I’m a woman in tech, and this is what I want in a company” by @LeighaNotLeia
RT @craigmod: Jimmy Wales, take my damn money! (if you can get your website to stay up ...)
Obama: “The internet, in some ways, has accelerated the sense of people having entirely separate conversations.”
RT @reichenstein: Life is struggle, ideology is death. “…the best way to combat hateful speech is through counter-speech…and debate.”
Dear friends: This is a thank you message. It is also a proposal for a partnership to build something big.
: Study finds gender bias in open-source programming.
: Study finds gender bias in open-source programming.
Hello, I'm Nick, I am a freelancer. This is my new portfolio: please tell your friends
RT @CAldenJacobs: @craigmod and @janchip had a conversation about publishing, and they want us to listen in!
"Goodbye, weird emoji that look like thumb people"
My periodic reminder that The Web is a Customer Service Medium by @ftrain is something everyone should read.
Using CSS Custom Properties per-element (not at :root) to write cleaner CSS:
Mag @OffAssignment has a great series — Letter to a Stranger. Here's mine, to a dude in sandals, a long time ago:
Gut bacteria linked to the formation of brain blood vessel lesions which can cause strokes and seizures.
Transferwise just launched borderless accounts:
“The hourglass is priced at $12,000”
"Basic income is venture capital for the people"
If cables could listen, what would they hear? Really beautiful work from @stamen
Halide feels like the Leica of iPhone camera apps
RT @tomcritchlow: This is an amazing reading list for those in digital media: if you liked my state of content deck you'll love this
That new alt-J album is 🔥 🔥 🔥
A heart-breaking piece; #Egypt is in dire shape. Yet how I wish I could go back?
@danrubin If you're looking for frames, check out
Inclusive Design Principles—intended to give a broad approach to inclusive design to everyone who builds Web sites
Instagram has a credibility problem; almost as bad as the current POTUS. #sponcon
The Human Side of Autonomous Cars: The work of Nissan’s @melcef who’ll keynote @epicpeople_org this year.
RT @iA: Roger Ailes: ‘The news is like a ship. If you take hands off the wheel, it pulls hard to the left.’
RT @outline: Amazon is buying Whole Foods. The path to world domination continues.
What the studio has been/is up to: Who knew?
Public by @enigma_data connects people to data, to the facts and to the truth.
Gizra's new(ish) homepage iteration is fantastic. Shades of vintage content-focused design.…
If you're into design system stuff, you should 100% preorder @craftui's book:
Must-read: "A day without Javascript" —
RT @reichenstein: When Goldman Sachs puts so much energy into explaining blockchain, then…?
RT @jensimmons: The genius @rachelandrew just dropped an article on why we don’t need layout frameworks anymore, what to do instead:
RT @ozzydidact: “We aren’t witnessing the return of the paradigm championed by right wing populists — we are witnessing its death.”
Davek
RT @rachelandrew: A huge set of Grid docs I created for @MozDevNet starts here #aeadc
🤔 measuring a kitchen shouldn't be this satisfying...like, at all 🤔 → app by…
The self is not a stable thing – it creates itself every time it chooses to pay attention.
YES to @johnmaeda's Four Rules
Technical fabrics (including Schoeller) made for women
The first full review of the Handbook. What does a practitioner, @thoy make of it?
@druconfessions @Dries @gdemet @DrupalAssoc FFS, what do you think you're doing? Stop. Consider this aimed at you:
For the teams currently conducing money practices research in Myanmar. Surprisingly still fresh: cc @studio_d_rad
What if Jan Chipchase has actually written a self-help book?
Be Brave!
(if you want to feel like you're living in a VR SF novel, follow cryptocurrency activity)
“There can be no ‘mind over matter’ when we understand that mind is matter…” and matter is in mind.
RT @codinghorror: Fun DIY experiment with a single solar panel:
(Ghost 1.0)
And now the #Drupal 8 Layout Discovery is stable! Good news for contrib like Panels and a foundation future core UIs
“Haid is tall and slender with both a head- and beard-bun.”
P&G cut digital ad spending by $140m last quarter. No impact on revenue. [Via @BenedictEvans' weekly newsletter]
RT @fox: A follow up to the thread about the cost of activism. “Women will never advance doing community work”.
(Patreon, an incredible service, only becoming more important and impactful by the day)
(“All screen activities are linked to less happiness, and all nonscreen activities are linked to more happiness.”)
(“I know a poem is done when I can identify three distinct pleasures: linguistic, emotional and intellectual.)”
Faszinierend: Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency
More on YouTube's out of control anti-ISIS campaign
on the increasing convergence of right and left