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Making sense of atomic design: molecules and organisms

RT @craftui: How exactly do you distinguish between molecules and organisms? Some thoughts after a year of using Atomic Design

Russia's False Narrative in Syria: December 1, 2015 | Institute for the Study of War

RT @TheStudyofWar: Myth 2: #Russia airstrikes target terrorist groups. NO: Fake Russia maps lie re: locations.

Home - FollowTheMoney.org

@krystynheide @igorvolsky's # is contradicted by data presented by , ,

Influence Explorer

@krystynheide @igorvolsky's # is contradicted by data presented by , ,

OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting

@krystynheide @igorvolsky's # is contradicted by data presented by , ,

Grounded: Life on the No Fly List | American Civil Liberties Union

RT @ggreenwald: Dear Democrats: read from the @ACLU about the no-fly list you're now disgustingly championing & trying to expand

Untitled (http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/googles-chromebooks-make-up-half-of-us-classroom-devices.html)

Current (& future) of education is rendered in HTML. Chromebooks now 50%> of US classroom devices via @BenedictEvans

Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content | Karen McGrane

Just referred to a speaker as a "PRESTIGIOUS content strategist" during a brief. I love my industry cc @karenmcgrane

Listen to Gaslight Anthem Singer Brian Fallon’s Solo Song ‘A Wonderful Life’ (Exclusive) - Speakeasy - WSJ

My favorite singer/songwriter @theBrianFallon is preparing to release a new (his first) solo record. Beautiful.

Gmail

Lost in the sunny tropic of , I often find myself *really* missing New York City utilitarian,

Sign in - Google Accounts

Lost in the sunny tropic of , I often find myself *really* missing New York City utilitarian,

Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying “No” to Millions | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

RT @brainpicker: Two of my favorite men, @sivers and @tferriss, in conversation about confidence, busyness, and having enough

BOOKS | Derek Sivers

One of the more nutritious, huge nuggets of wisdom gleaned during @sivers' and @tferriss' discussion, see for books.

Reality is messy | The Haystack

@VIPickering Relevant:

Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design - Web design news and insights since 1995

RT @zeldman: ⇛ Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now–fresh at

Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now - Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design

RT @zeldman: ⇛ Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now–fresh at

Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem / Horrible Crowes) - "The Blues, Mary" live at Crossroads NJ - YouTube

Beyond excited for @thebrianfallon's Portland show tonight — a welcome respite from a strange & heavy start to 2016.

Redirecting...

Today marks three years since Aaron Swartz's death.

How 26 Tweets Broke My Filter Bubble – Medium

RT @karenmcgrane: One of the best things I’ve done is explicitly seek out different perspectives on Twitter. Read this from @bjmay:

Alrawi, the ISIS encrypted messaging app, does not exist | The Daily Dot

@craigmod @DefenseOne "The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app" —

The Leica Q — Craig Mod

RT @craigmod: ☆ The Leica Q — A six month field test:

The Right-Side Column: Just Noise? | iA

Championed by @iA in 2006 (), even is eliminating right column noise:

Google

Championed by @iA in 2006 (), even is eliminating right column noise:

Ego and Altruism: Lessons F... on Livestream

The brilliant Leila Janah on Ego and Altruism —

Nokia N9 - Fan Bingbing Unfollow - YouTube

@dcurtis I'm reminded of Nokia's 2011 "Unfollow" advertisement for the wonderful N9 —

Pattern Lab: Taking Our Workflow from a Linear to Parallel Process | Phase2 Technology

RT @brad_frost: Absolutely love these insights from @EvanLovely about how Pattern Lab has improved @phase2's workflow!

(404) http://IndependentMedia.com

Will it survive atrophy longer than Vox dot com? Will its investors be less adverse to sarcasm than Bloomberg? ...

Untitled (http://independentmedia.com/js/horse.js)

It's 2016. Horse.js is the next trend.

OpenDevShop: Drupal Cloud Hosting & Testing Platform

@jonpugh You've probably noticed by now, but just in case — @OpenDevShop's domain () seems to have expired :o

Is group chat making you sweat?

Basecamp on Slack:

xkcd: Compiling

Running npm install is the new "my code's compiling".

LukeW | Developing Design Principles

Developing Design Principles by Luke Wroblewski

Frank Chimero - Writing

Reading Frank Chimero’s stuff for the first time in a long time. Recommended.

Frank Chimero - Jettison the Rest

“It’s best to identify and do what you’re required and able, then jettison the rest.”

How the iPad Pro Changed My Illustrating Career

This is exactly how I feel about the Mac SE. And if I could have written Steve Jobs… and he’d written back :O

Frank Chimero - From the Porch to the Street

Whenever I find myself wondering why this place got so terrible and how to put the good back in it, I come back to..

GitHub - romannurik/MaterialColorsApp: A handy little Mac app that gives you quick access to the standard material design color palette.

Downloading Material Colors app (OS X only) :: — Looks nifty.

Highlighting Western Victims While Ignoring Victims of Western Violence

Imbalanced media coverage btwn West victims & West-led violence perpetuates "only others kill innocents" narrative.

Untitled (http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/how-the-telegraph-built-its-new-cms-by-focusing-on-simplicity/)

As promised, here’s a screenshot of an awful newspaper CMS; clickthrough to see a better one

(500) https://medium.com/uie-brain-sparks/preparing-organizations-to-become-design-infused-8a0d93b50d36#.5r7ln8rm0

“Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgements.”

Design Patterns on CodePen

Well looks I'll be diving into these @CodePen patterns for the next...forever.

Being tired isn’t a badge of honor

“Being tired isn’t a badge of honor.” Amen, @jasonfried! ht @ryanessmaker

Adactio: Journal—A brief history of the World Wide Web by web developers

“The web will be so much better when…” Deep wisdom from @adactio.

Dictionary | iA

As most (all?) things iA does are, iA Dictionary is brilliant.

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."

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