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Layout Demos by Jen Simmons

I redesigned the landing page of . Much better. More will come later, too… #respond16 #AEASEA #aeanash

Explore – One of the greatest tricks the passive person...

"One of the greatest tricks the passive person plays on himself or herself is to say, ‘But look how busy I am.’"

Aegir

@aegirproject It seems that paypal has disabled donating through the link on

Aligning text smartly in CSS

#Ace: Pure CSS method to align text left when it wraps, but centre it when it doesn’t: /by @sharmavijay /v @adactio

Color in Design Systems – EightShapes LLC – Medium

Fantastic article by @nathanacurtis about working with color in design systems:

Do this. Directives - part 1 | Derek Sivers

After many requests, I finally posted "Do this" - Directives - part 1 :

The Future of Enterprise Design Is Consumer-Grade UX | UX Magazine

The future of enterprise design is consumer-grade UX

The smug style in American liberalism - Vox

This piece is long, brutal, and will make you feel uncomfortable. "The smug style in American liberalism"

Advomatic | How do I manage security on my Drupal 6 site? — Advomatic

How to keep your Drupal 6 sites as secure as possible using tools from @mydropwizard:

(404) https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought” Orwell nicely cited in

Log In - The New York Times

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought” Orwell nicely cited in

Modular Design — Responsive Web Design

Um, yeah, I’ll be listening to this: “Modular Design” by @karenmcgrane and @beep

On Building Component Libraries | Clearleft

I really like how deeply @allmarkedup thinks about pattern libraries: both who they’re for, and how they’re made.

✨Una Kravets' Blog: Musings on Front-End Development and Design✨

I (literally) just finished a new post! 🤘 Setting up an a11y dashboard using pa11y & @digitalocean from 0️⃣ to 💯:

Kaleo - Vor í Vaglaskógi (Official Video) [with English subtitles] - YouTube

Have you seen the video for our new song "Vor í Vaglaskógi"? It's a traditional love poem >

farmOS.org

@janchip I’m not sure what Connected Farming is but… Perhaps of interest: — Drupal means great multilingual support.

Untitled (https://www.drupal.org/node/2721129)

Excited about the Workflow initiative announced during #DriesNote? Check out the plan at #DrupalCon #Drupal

(400) http://Instagram.com

Imagine the vitriol if Instagram shipped the logo as their new app icon. Why the bifurcation

Archiving Our Online Communities – Medium

We’re closing down @sayhi on September 1, 2016, but we’re making a 2"×2" nickel “book” printed with the entire site:

Iceberg Tweeting – The Message – Medium

Twitter (finally!) doing a few of the things I wrote about two years ago:

You Can’t Have Your Lunch and Eat it Too – Medium

“Be a part of the city.” — @davepell

How The Gun Works – Bug-A-Salt

Noted: bug-a-salt

Tramuntana | Hawk Moon Records

Tramuntana 'a sublime modern classical record'. Listen:

Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t - Cloud Four

Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t. Everything I’ve learned about autofill collected. Hope it helps!

The Power Grid (@the_power_grid) • Instagram photos and videos

Strangely meditative: Nicely done @marc_dacosta

Yoyo Light – Andrew Neyer

Ordered a Yoyo light for @cushionapp HQ. I ❤️ all of Andrew Neyer’s lights:

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist – The Startup – Medium

How technology hijacks people’s minds: Very happy to see @tristanharris ideas getting out there. Deeply important.

Track errors with modern exception logging for JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, and Node.js

I ❤️ @getsentry so much.

12 Things I Noticed While Reading Every Short Story Published in 2014–15

"Literary magazines are not withering; they are flourishing." by @lucekel

Considerations in Component Design - Snook.ca

Considerations in Component Design

Fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI | Roger Schank

Fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI—Roger Schank: “IBM is simply lying now and they need to stop.”

Off Assignment

Off Assignment is live and real:

Untitled (https://www.drupal.org/project/stage_file_proxy)

This module is amazing! No need to rsync content files for local development. #drupal #development

Provide custom PHP and Nginx builds as Debian packages · Issue #955 · omega8cc/boa · GitHub

#BOA installation and upgrade should be lightning fast, soon! -- #Aegir #Drupal

Peak Minimalism | iA

Peak Minimalism:

BOA-3.1.0 Full Edition | Aegir Drupal Hosting on Steroids

#BOA-3.1.0 released -- with @LetsEncrypt, PHP versions per #Drupal site, #PHP 7.0.7 and more. Enjoy! #Aegir

Responsive Product Comparison Tables - daverupert.com

Responsive Product Comparison Tables by @davatron5000

June/July Shipping – SDR Traveller

The team is heading to the Pamirs. For delivery in June, please order in the next 24 hours

How the Syrian revolt went so horribly, tragically wrong - The Washington Post

Barry was my housemate in Al-Bab. Listen to him here: How the Syrian revolt went so horribly, tragically wrong

Does each click of attention cost a bit of ourselves? | Aeon Essays

The Attention Economy << imho we won’t pay to consume, but to recall past consumption, since this is its true value

Thiel vs Gawker: Why a Defensive Media is the Real Threat to Free Speech | Quillette

Thiel vs Gawker: Why a Defensive Media is the Real Threat to Free Speech | Quillette

The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar - The Atlantic

The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar by @craigmod, was part of the foundational research

Elon Musk | Full interview | Code Conference 2016 - YouTube

Watch this — Elon Musk’s latest high-level interview —

Declarative Design Tools | Jon Gold

Interesting approach to testing out ideas. Intrigued to see where you take this @jongold

Instagram to third-party developers: drop dead - Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design

♛ Instagram to third-party developers: drop dead

Untitled (http://Roam.co)

@andybudd ?

Coming out 2.0

From the "TMI about my personal life" file. here's Coming Out 2.0: #pridemonth

Untitled (https://www.fastcodesign.com/3054927/the-big-idea/microsofts-inspiring-bet-on-a-radical-new-type-of-design-thinking)

“Disability is an engine of innovation.”—Microsoft

Promoting a Design System Across Your Products · An A List Apart Article

Promoting a Design System Across Your Products – advice on getting started with eterprise systems, by @nathanacurtis

Reweaving the web | The Economist

Yet, there's true potential in a fully decentralized, encrypted web:

Pattern – Ford’s Sensorium – Medium

“Pattern” by Paul Ford

An Event Apart News: Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design by Ethan Marcotte—An Event Apart video

Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design by @beep #RWD

Debugging the Tech Industry – Lena Reinhard

This talk by @lrnrd on “debugging the tech industry” is very much worth your time. (via @ag_dubs)

There’s no hand off in product design

A designer's job isn't done until they've considered all the constraints—incl engineering.

On Page SEO in 2016: A (2M Keyword) Data Driven Analysis

“On page SEO is dead. We studied 2M search queries to learn that.”

Pulp Friction | New Republic

"The death of Barnes & Noble would be catastrophic."

7 reasons why Infinite Scrolling is probably a bad idea – Simple = Human – Medium

Why infinite scrolling is probably a bad idea:

Stop Using Google Trends – Medium

The supposed spike in Brits Googling "What is the EU?" after #Brexit was only ~1000 people.

Our story: Building a component library – Medium

The City of Gothenburg is documenting their journey towards a maintainable component library: Awesome @mikaelsandin!

Reality Check: The truth about US drone strikes

"The truth about U.S. drone strikes" - my rebuttal to the rebuttals :-) @AJUpFront #realitycheck video, do pls watch

Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech

“People obsessed with control have to eventually confront the fact of their own extinction.”

The Quartz guide to bad data — Quartz

“As a reporter your world is full of data. And those data are full of problems.”

Untitled (http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/06/tim-brady-interview/)

Interview with Yahoo! employee #1

What Douglas Engelbart Taught Me About Designing User Interfaces – Flinto – Medium

“Englebart explained that immediate learnability should not always be the goal of a[n…] interface.”

Charlie Skelton: The anti-Brexit protest brigade are confusing love for the EU with love for Europe

This is brilliant. ‘Students used to march against globalisation – now they draw hearts on their face to defend it.’

Samsung's polarizing Serif TV is now available in the US for $1,499 - The Verge

The Bouroullecs designed a TV.

Let’s Fly — Craig Mod

@destroytoday "Arrive so early that a friend will text you,What R U sixty years old?"

Service workers protest unequal pay and working conditions in Silicon Valley – video | Technology | The Guardian

Will the tech industry start caring about more than selfish interests, VCs & exits? Or do we truly not give a shit.

GitHub - you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Javascript: CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without js.

You Don't Need JavaScript:

Untitled (https://eager.io/blog/the-history-of-the-url-domain-and-protocol/)

The history of the URL:

Links vs. Buttons in Modern Web Applications | MarcySutton.com

I struggle with the link vs button idea from a design perspective (not from an implementation perspective)

Astrum - A lightweight pattern library for any project

This looks awesome:

Connectivity is not binary, the network is never neutral. – Studio D – Medium

♻️ Connectivity is not binary, the network is never neutral.

Making And Maintaining Atomic Design Systems With Pattern Lab 2 – Smashing Magazine

✎ An epic tutorial on making/maintaining atomic design systems with shiny new Pattern Lab 2.

Palettable

I love this new colour palette tool! /via @vpieters

Pattern Lab 2: The Next Generation | Ian Frost Weather

A short post with my personal insights on Pattern Lab 2's features and why to use it. #patternlab

Untitled (http://adage.com/article/media/quartz-driven-8x-increase-revenue-launch/304925/)

HUH INTERESTING

Death to the Mass – Whither news? – Medium

Good article on the future of news.

Paris and the Data Mind — Craig Mod

“The summer’s heat was damp and dogged but it didn’t matter—I was a man with steps to acquire.” From the archive:

Redesigning Sidebar

What if the header was the footer? @SidebarIO redesigns, experiments and breaks the conventions of scrolling—

Mobile Input Types

It's easy to forget how many input types there are and how they affect keyboards on mobile.

Fractal | Fractal Documentation

So excited about Fractal, @clearleft’s tool for developing, maintaining, and integrating your component libraries:

Multichannel Text Processing | iA

MULTICHANNEL TEXT PROCESSING by @iA — "Markdown could be our golden gun. If only it looked a little shinier!"

Drawing the Calendar

How I draw my calendars:

OUTLIER Freecotton Button-Up

Freecotton

Longform

Longform seems to have slapped up a new gorgeous greyscale design:

The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time – Shady Characters

We're about a month away from publication of THE BOOK:

Fear of the Sky

Happy to say our site has been nominated for 'Breakthrough of the Year' by @ThirdSector

Getting into The Outline – Medium

A note on the team building @outline with me

Joshua Topolsky, Former Verge Editor, Raises Funding for Digital Media Venture - WSJ

Topolsky's at it again —

Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved – Medium

If you prefer quality over cruft to go with your news media diet, you'll appreciate The @Outline.

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here - Scientific American

Desalination is working for Israel. I'd love to see more innovation like this.

Taxonomy and Recirculation — Responsive Web Design

P.S. this is the best case study ever written about taxonomy, reading it is very soothing.

(500) https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

If you're looking to download YouTube videos, youtube-dl is pretty amazing:

Why focusing on a few products is hard | Asymco

Why focusing on a few products is hard

Vox Media veteran Josh Topolsky explains what digital media companies get wrong, and what his new publication plans to get right - Recode

I did a Q&A with @nkulw at @Recode and it was a dream come true

A Bit of Good News About Journalism - The New Yorker

.@newyorker: "subscription-based journalism... is rapidly becoming financially viable" #2MA

Keep earning your title, or it expires | Derek Sivers

Keep earning your title, or it expires :

Log In - The New York Times

"It is time for the United States to speak the language that Mr. Assad and Mr. Putin understand." #WishfulThinking

Untitled (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/12/01/japanese-netizens-moved-to-tears-over-story-of-dad-teaching-daughter-how-to-handle-alcohol/)

I love this story of a dad being intentional about the lessons he teaches his daughter. (via @dwaldron)

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