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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)
Facebook to websites: stop clickbait headlines -- or else - Aug. 4, 2016
Facebook to websites: stop clickbait headlines -- or else via @CNNMoney
Hover is dead. Long live hover. – Design at Instacart – Medium
“Don’t use hover as the primary action to trigger anything essential…” — @jordanstaniscia
The Intrinsic Economy (and why the Republicans must lose) – Medium
The Intrinsic Economy by @Grant27 Not sure of the full title, but interesting read.
Buttons shouldn’t have a hand cursor – Simple = Human – Medium
Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor. Some interesting points to consider ~
What are Bloom filters?
Learn about Bloom filters and an amusing story to boot.
Blendle
RT @Blendle: "Is America really great?" — @tejucole on racial tension in today's #LunchwiththeFT
“Researching Design Systems,” an article by Dan Mall
Researching Design Systems by @danielmall:
GitHub - omega8cc/pages_rtfm: BOA Docs
Are you #Aegir #BOA user? Learn how to participate in the #BOA #docs rewrite effort: #Drupal
Saudi Millennials Don’t Use Their Phones Like We Do
If you’ve ever wondered how we roll at @studio_d_rad, read this piece by @jessiwrites on our Saudi work:
Sign-up – The Field Study Handbook
And yes, forthcoming: The Field Study Handbook, condenses 15 years of hard lessons.
Peter Thiel’s Reminder to Gawker Generation: Actions Have Consequences | Observer
@dcurtis I thought that at first, but reading @RyanHoliday "Trust me, I'm Lying" changed my mind. Also this:
Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome
A really nice look at React and the problems it's trying to solve
This Is What's Missing From Journalism Right Now | Mother Jones
Blockbuster undercover prison report cost @motherjones $350k to produce, brought in $5k advertising. Support them:
U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds | Reuters
This is is trillion with a t
Adactio: Journal—Why do pull quotes exist on the web?
I gave up arguing against pull quotes on the web years ago and support @adactio's quest to understand their purpose
Flickity
~@metafizzyco Flickity is by far the best slider I’ve used. So simple, doesn’t need dependencies & customizable 🔝💯
An Event Apart News: Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts by Jen Simmons – An Event Apart Video
Design outside the rectangle. Great talk by @jensimmons.
(500) https://www.chapterthree.com/
@chapter_three Your HTTPS Certificate is broken on ! :o
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS! - Epic Australian Man Arrested - YouTube
This is how you resist arrest
Shit Loops In Design
I've tweeted at a few products guilty of "Shit Loop #2" before. Thanks @azumbrunnen_ for articulating it far better.
On Finding Your Purpose: An Extraordinary Letter by Hunter S. Thompson
“it is the functioning toward the goal which is important.”
GitHub - bevacqua/rome: Customizable date (and time) picker. Opt-in UI, no jQuery!
@brad_frost Rome is pretty nice.
datedropper jQuery datepicker plugin.
@brad_frost
GitHub - airbnb/react-dates: An accessible, easily internationalizable, mobile-friendly datepicker library for the web
@brad_frost Don’t exactly know what you are looking for, but there is this:
40 things I learned in my last job – Medium
"People mostly want to feel seen and heard" and other things @coreycaitlin learned.
Japanese Hand-Forged Garden Clippers - Kaufmann Mercantile
Digging these "hand forged" garden clippers:
Apple Plug
“Fill your archaic headphone connector with aluminium and plug into the future.”
US religion is worth $1.2T/year, more than America's 10 biggest tech companies, combined / Boing Boing
US religion is worth $1.2T/year, more than America's 10 biggest tech companies, combined
You Are @ 10K Apart
Another great thing about is that it's a wonderful creative exercise. Progressive enhancement gets you to *think*.
Did Hitler have great designers? Can good design be bad design? – Desk of van Schneider – Medium
Did Hitler have good designers? Does design have a duty to be good?
Brandon Marshall talks Jets and Career Regrets | The MMQB with Peter King
Starting at 6 minutes, Brandon Marshall talks about mental health & fitness, therapy, and black-and-white thinking —
Log In - The New York Times
This. “Three years ago, I would say: You. But right now, I don’t know.”
push down divs menu | The ASP.NET Forums
Saddleback Church - One Family, Many Locations. Help. Healing. Hope.
jquery - I want my content to be pushed down when the menu slider down - Stack Overflow
html - Make drop down menu push content down on click - Stack Overflow
CodePen - Alex the CSS Husky
OMG I'm in love #codepen #aeaorl
Tandem | How My Agency uses Kalabox to Win all the Local | How My Agency uses Kalabox to Win all the Local |
Getting a Drupal 8 Pantheon Site Up-and-Running Locally on Acquia Dev Desktop | DrupalEasy
$settings['hash_salt'] = 'some_random_string';
Politics & Christianity
if you're a Christian and support Donald Trump, I hope you'll read this thing I wrote and reconsider
Custom Input | Drupal.org
GT America – 84 Style Swiss-American Grotesque Font Family – Download Free Trial Fonts
There’s a new bar for typeface websites: Damn, @grillitype. 👏
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