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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 ?

Experimenting with just using @airtable as an infographic repo. What do you think? Workable?

Emerging role in design orgs: The Super Senior Individual Contributor (Principal Designer, Design Architect)

@joelanman For the digital justice map we specifically avoided any journey paths. Just showed that there are lots of activities. That are going on in different clusters. With different people involved.

@pontifexmaximu5 @joelanman this and all the linked subchannels is everything I’ve collected:

I got tired of setting up grid systems for interface concepting, so I made a starter template with cross-device 8-point grids and 16-column layouts. There’s also a printable version with a dot grid. Hope it can be useful to you for sketching/wireframing:

Native CSS Masonry layout in just one extra line of code? Yes, please. Here it is working with CSS Grid in @FirefoxNightly More in by @rachelandrew

Apple makes a big, sexy landing page highlighting the #a11y features built into its products. Not unexpectedly, the big sexy landing page has WCAG A and AA level #a11y conformance errors, making it less than completely accessible. (1/2)

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Just a really great piece from @sariazout on the coming era of community knowledge networks:

Friday night, getting things done: if you're a supporter of @Kawaakibi on @Patreon, then we now have perks, including regular AMAs + membership of our @discord server. Not a member already? You can be in 30 seconds:

If you're wondering what Google was so terrified of @timnitGebru publishing, I got a copy of the paper. Here's my best summary of what it says. Thank you to @emilymbender who coauthored the work for sending it my way.

#WarmData A brief piece on Warm Data. "The way that sense is made is not explicit. The way that sensemaking is often communicated is. This may very well prove to be the most significant obstacle in the current explosion of sensemaking attempts."

Pro tip: install “Toggle JavaScript”. I reckon it’s my most used extension, not just for progressive enhancement stuff, but for also making news sites actually readable:

Apple introduces AirPods Max. Active everything, $550. (Will be interesting to see where these fit in around quality stakes - Apple has never really tried to go high-end there)

"Platforms are the new public space, and subscriptions are the tax we pay to occupy it. This is almost enough to make one nostalgic for transactionality." Lots of great thoughts in this @_reallifemag piece on subscription/loyalty programs by @kneelingbus

The news that Nielsen is making an effort to improve their abysmal data quality to guide ad spend for offline & online channels hits like Fyre Festival for ad tech. They'll need to move mountains to create a tiny fraction of the value they're hinting at.

“We humans think we’re very smart. We know how to build bridges and microprocessors. So what? Do you know how to build a rainforest? An ocean? I didn’t think so. Nobody does. We are destroying things far, far beyond our capacity to create.”

Winter is coming. Kicking back off digital coffees to drag my extroverted self through it. Let's hang out?

Beyond excited – and nervous – to share a veeeery early sneak peek of what I've been working on 👀🐇 🕳 Meet:

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.

We’ve all been there. A client or coworker shows us this amazing thing they (and maybe their entire team) have worked on for hours or weeks. They are so proud of it. It’s new or maybe it just looks new. They may or may not ask you what you think—but you’re there to experience it. And your brain quietly screams.

the new version of Mapbox GL JS will be proprietary

I made some updates to my #accessiBe post (additions, no re-writes). The second: Even #accessiBe’s Latest Release is Inaccessible Look at that contrast! Look at those flags (you can only look as they have no alt attributes)! h/t @karlgroves

Another great news publication shuts its doors. This cuts deep.

Some @MiroHQ activities I have been doing lately Link to board: I'll try to schedule another walkthrough if folks are interested.

@feather I read through WCAG and wrote out design criteria in my own words so it made sense to me as a designer. Might be helpful to others!

A Utility Class for Covering Elements, also with CSS Grid. By @MicheBarks.

Human-centered UX practices don't do nearly enough to address trauma, power dynamics, and self-care. In the latest Finding Our Way, @jjg and I get schooled by @vcastillo630 on these subjects and much more. Apple: Website:

Human-centered UX practices don't do nearly enough to address trauma, power dynamics, and self-care. In the latest Finding Our Way, @jjg and I get schooled by @vcastillo630 on these subjects and much more. Apple: Website:

The HTML Design Principles “Priority of Constituencies” section states: “In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.” 8/20

Nice article on DesignOps from @alisonrand

i think "get your work recognized: write a brag document" is one of the most important blog posts I've written. Building a culture where people encourage each other to track & celebrate their accomplishments is really powerful.

@cydharrell @gregpak death to bullshit

Excited to announce that WeCommerce will begin trading on the TSXV under the symbol WE on Monday at 9:30AM EST. 🚀🚀🚀

Wow. I’m going to do a little thread on the many levels of awful here. Alt: “get a coronavirus test” page using Google’s reCAPTCHA asking for the site visitor to identify “crosswalks“.

spent the day daydreaming about building a tiny house by a lake and trying to come up with reasons why not to