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RT @zeldman: ⇛ Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now–fresh at
RT @zeldman: ⇛ Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now–fresh at
Beyond excited for @thebrianfallon's Portland show tonight — a welcome respite from a strange & heavy start to 2016.
Today marks three years since Aaron Swartz's death.
RT @karenmcgrane: One of the best things I’ve done is explicitly seek out different perspectives on Twitter. Read this from @bjmay:
@craigmod @DefenseOne "The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app" —
RT @craigmod: ☆ The Leica Q — A six month field test:
Championed by @iA in 2006 (), even is eliminating right column noise:
Championed by @iA in 2006 (), even is eliminating right column noise:
The brilliant Leila Janah on Ego and Altruism —
@dcurtis I'm reminded of Nokia's 2011 "Unfollow" advertisement for the wonderful N9 —
RT @brad_frost: Absolutely love these insights from @EvanLovely about how Pattern Lab has improved @phase2's workflow!
Will it survive atrophy longer than Vox dot com? Will its investors be less adverse to sarcasm than Bloomberg? ...
It's 2016. Horse.js is the next trend.
@jonpugh You've probably noticed by now, but just in case — @OpenDevShop's domain () seems to have expired :o
Basecamp on Slack:
Running npm install is the new "my code's compiling".
Developing Design Principles by Luke Wroblewski
Reading Frank Chimero’s stuff for the first time in a long time. Recommended.
“It’s best to identify and do what you’re required and able, then jettison the rest.”
This is exactly how I feel about the Mac SE. And if I could have written Steve Jobs… and he’d written back :O
Whenever I find myself wondering why this place got so terrible and how to put the good back in it, I come back to..
Downloading Material Colors app (OS X only) :: — Looks nifty.
Imbalanced media coverage btwn West victims & West-led violence perpetuates "only others kill innocents" narrative.
As promised, here’s a screenshot of an awful newspaper CMS; clickthrough to see a better one
“Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgements.”
Well looks I'll be diving into these @CodePen patterns for the next...forever.
“Being tired isn’t a badge of honor.” Amen, @jasonfried! ht @ryanessmaker
“The web will be so much better when…” Deep wisdom from @adactio.
As most (all?) things iA does are, iA Dictionary is brilliant.
I redesigned the landing page of . Much better. More will come later, too… #respond16 #AEASEA #aeanash
"One of the greatest tricks the passive person plays on himself or herself is to say, ‘But look how busy I am.’"
@aegirproject It seems that paypal has disabled donating through the link on
#Ace: Pure CSS method to align text left when it wraps, but centre it when it doesn’t: /by @sharmavijay /v @adactio
Fantastic article by @nathanacurtis about working with color in design systems:
After many requests, I finally posted "Do this" - Directives - part 1 :
The future of enterprise design is consumer-grade UX
This piece is long, brutal, and will make you feel uncomfortable. "The smug style in American liberalism"
How to keep your Drupal 6 sites as secure as possible using tools from @mydropwizard:
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought” Orwell nicely cited in
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought” Orwell nicely cited in
Um, yeah, I’ll be listening to this: “Modular Design” by @karenmcgrane and @beep
I really like how deeply @allmarkedup thinks about pattern libraries: both who they’re for, and how they’re made.
I (literally) just finished a new post! 🤘 Setting up an a11y dashboard using pa11y & @digitalocean from 0️⃣ to 💯:
Have you seen the video for our new song "Vor í Vaglaskógi"? It's a traditional love poem >
@janchip I’m not sure what Connected Farming is but… Perhaps of interest: — Drupal means great multilingual support.
Excited about the Workflow initiative announced during #DriesNote? Check out the plan at #DrupalCon #Drupal
Imagine the vitriol if Instagram shipped the logo as their new app icon. Why the bifurcation
We’re closing down @sayhi on September 1, 2016, but we’re making a 2"×2" nickel “book” printed with the entire site:
Twitter (finally!) doing a few of the things I wrote about two years ago:
“Be a part of the city.” — @davepell
Noted: bug-a-salt
Tramuntana 'a sublime modern classical record'. Listen:
Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t. Everything I’ve learned about autofill collected. Hope it helps!
Strangely meditative: Nicely done @marc_dacosta
Ordered a Yoyo light for @cushionapp HQ. I ❤️ all of Andrew Neyer’s lights:
How technology hijacks people’s minds: Very happy to see @tristanharris ideas getting out there. Deeply important.
I ❤️ @getsentry so much.
"Literary magazines are not withering; they are flourishing." by @lucekel
Considerations in Component Design
Fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI—Roger Schank: “IBM is simply lying now and they need to stop.”
Off Assignment is live and real:
This module is amazing! No need to rsync content files for local development. #drupal #development
#BOA installation and upgrade should be lightning fast, soon! -- #Aegir #Drupal
Peak Minimalism:
#BOA-3.1.0 released -- with @LetsEncrypt, PHP versions per #Drupal site, #PHP 7.0.7 and more. Enjoy! #Aegir
Responsive Product Comparison Tables by @davatron5000
The team is heading to the Pamirs. For delivery in June, please order in the next 24 hours
Barry was my housemate in Al-Bab. Listen to him here: How the Syrian revolt went so horribly, tragically wrong
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
The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar by @craigmod, was part of the foundational research
Watch this — Elon Musk’s latest high-level interview —
Interesting approach to testing out ideas. Intrigued to see where you take this @jongold
♛ Instagram to third-party developers: drop dead
@andybudd ?
From the "TMI about my personal life" file. here's Coming Out 2.0: #pridemonth
“Disability is an engine of innovation.”—Microsoft
Promoting a Design System Across Your Products – advice on getting started with eterprise systems, by @nathanacurtis
Yet, there's true potential in a fully decentralized, encrypted web:
“Pattern” by Paul Ford
Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design by @beep #RWD
This talk by @lrnrd on “debugging the tech industry” is very much worth your time. (via @ag_dubs)
A designer's job isn't done until they've considered all the constraints—incl engineering.
“On page SEO is dead. We studied 2M search queries to learn that.”
"The death of Barnes & Noble would be catastrophic."
Why infinite scrolling is probably a bad idea:
The supposed spike in Brits Googling "What is the EU?" after #Brexit was only ~1000 people.
The City of Gothenburg is documenting their journey towards a maintainable component library: Awesome @mikaelsandin!
"The truth about U.S. drone strikes" - my rebuttal to the rebuttals :-) @AJUpFront #realitycheck video, do pls watch
“People obsessed with control have to eventually confront the fact of their own extinction.”
“As a reporter your world is full of data. And those data are full of problems.”
Interview with Yahoo! employee #1
“Englebart explained that immediate learnability should not always be the goal of a[n…] interface.”
This is brilliant. ‘Students used to march against globalisation – now they draw hearts on their face to defend it.’
The Bouroullecs designed a TV.
@destroytoday "Arrive so early that a friend will text you,What R U sixty years old?"
Will the tech industry start caring about more than selfish interests, VCs & exits? Or do we truly not give a shit.
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