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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."
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:
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