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#Drupal people, does anyone know how to alter the Big Pipe placeholder? It's a span everywhere but it'd be useful to be able to add custom markup per block (not just CSS styling) to avoid CLS or add skeleton 'loading' content. I found but nothing else.

For all your Jonesing For Hanging Out In A Coffeeshop While You Read needs, via @sparrowpost

We need metrics, but we also need to increase the concentration of moral & ethical thinking on technical teams. We need to figure out how to hire, train, and retain talent to that effect. That's how you find and prevent harms that metrics don't capture.

Apple will lower its commission to 15% if you make under one million US dollars per year. For small developers, this is fantastic news and overall it’s a good step in the right direction. In the bigger picture, more steps need to follow.

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🆕 "Yes or No" — One checkbox vs two radio buttons. A quick and short post in which I collected the responses to this tweet #UX #HTML

Employing algorithmic layout design means doing away with @media breakpoints, “magic numbers”, and other hacks, to create context-independent layout components. Your future design systems will be more consistent, terser in code, and more malleable in the hands of your users and their devices.

How to create a movement, a must watch for systems innovators:

Thank you @tomscott for beautifully explaining the horrendous state of the web today and why GDPR is not the answer.

The dumpster fire is back on! Day two, now with an extra slippery ramp —> . It’s especially satisfying to see that ~3k people are watching the live stream and sharing the cathartic experience.

"I am just going to show you the bare minimum you need to make a WCAG-compliant responsive HTML table." says Uncle @aardrian […]

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Chatting with my mate who's cycling the Mae Hong Son loop in North Thailand: 600 kms and 13,000 metres of climbing in 6 days, with performance-enhancing Marlboros. (Usually he does this route leading tourists driving their own tuk tuks for his business ).

I gave a talk about trying to keep up with the latest and greatest tools and tech. I still think the concepts hold up.

RT @brucel: Welcome to Your Bland New World "The VC community is an increasingly predictable and lookalike bunch that just seems to follow each other around from one trivial idea to another.” (Via @tobie)

Welcome to Your Bland New World "The VC community is an increasingly predictable and lookalike bunch that just seems to follow each other around from one trivial idea to another.” (Via @tobie)

There are countless GUI toolkits in different languages and with diverse approaches to GUI development. Yet, diligent comparisons between them are rare. Whereas in a traditional benchmark competing implementations are compared in terms of their resource consumption, here implementations are compared in terms of their notation. To that end, 7GUIs defines seven tasks that represent typical challenges in GUI programming. In addition, 7GUIs provides a recommended set of evaluation dimensions. One might wonder why such a project is useful. First, GUI programming is in fact not an easy task. 7GUIs may help in identifying and propagating better approaches to GUI programming, ultimately pushing programming forward. Second, alternative approaches to GUI programming and programming in general gained in popularity. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives versus the traditional OOP & MVC GUI development approach is interesting. Finally, there was no widely used set of tasks which represent typical GUI programming challenges when 7GUIs was conceived (2014).

“Naples is the world’s last pagan city ... (At) Sansevero, the marble veil over Christ’s body is so impossibly thin, so they say, it cannot have been carved by Giuseppe Sanmartino, and must have been draped over him and turned to stone with a spell.”

Skeletons are a bit of an anti-pattern. They are Lilliputian lies you give the user with a grin. A bait-and-switch for the impatient. I urge you to reconsider them if you can. They may have their uses in some places, but they are not a good blanket approach.

Reviewing the martech and WCM landscape of 2020 - Part 1: revisiting some predictions (spoiler alert: not too shabby)

@awilkinson Whatever happened to ?