#BOA-3.1.0 released -- with @LetsEncrypt, PHP versions per #Drupal site, #PHP 7.0.7 and more. Enjoy! #Aegir
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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.
You Don't Need JavaScript:
The history of the URL:
I struggle with the link vs button idea from a design perspective (not from an implementation perspective)
This looks awesome:
♻️ Connectivity is not binary, the network is never neutral.
✎ An epic tutorial on making/maintaining atomic design systems with shiny new Pattern Lab 2.
I love this new colour palette tool! /via @vpieters
A short post with my personal insights on Pattern Lab 2's features and why to use it. #patternlab
HUH INTERESTING
Good article on the future of news.
“The summer’s heat was damp and dogged but it didn’t matter—I was a man with steps to acquire.” From the archive:
What if the header was the footer? @SidebarIO redesigns, experiments and breaks the conventions of scrolling—
It's easy to forget how many input types there are and how they affect keyboards on mobile.
So excited about Fractal, @clearleft’s tool for developing, maintaining, and integrating your component libraries:
MULTICHANNEL TEXT PROCESSING by @iA — "Markdown could be our golden gun. If only it looked a little shinier!"
How I draw my calendars:
Freecotton
Longform seems to have slapped up a new gorgeous greyscale design:
We're about a month away from publication of THE BOOK:
Happy to say our site has been nominated for 'Breakthrough of the Year' by @ThirdSector
A note on the team building @outline with me
Topolsky's at it again —
If you prefer quality over cruft to go with your news media diet, you'll appreciate The @Outline.
Desalination is working for Israel. I'd love to see more innovation like this.
P.S. this is the best case study ever written about taxonomy, reading it is very soothing.
If you're looking to download YouTube videos, youtube-dl is pretty amazing:
Why focusing on a few products is hard
I did a Q&A with @nkulw at @Recode and it was a dream come true
.@newyorker: "subscription-based journalism... is rapidly becoming financially viable" #2MA
Keep earning your title, or it expires :
"It is time for the United States to speak the language that Mr. Assad and Mr. Putin understand." #WishfulThinking
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 via @CNNMoney
“Don’t use hover as the primary action to trigger anything essential…” — @jordanstaniscia
The Intrinsic Economy by @Grant27 Not sure of the full title, but interesting read.
Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor. Some interesting points to consider ~
Learn about Bloom filters and an amusing story to boot.
RT @Blendle: "Is America really great?" — @tejucole on racial tension in today's #LunchwiththeFT
Researching Design Systems by @danielmall:
Are you #Aegir #BOA user? Learn how to participate in the #BOA #docs rewrite effort: #Drupal
If you’ve ever wondered how we roll at @studio_d_rad, read this piece by @jessiwrites on our Saudi work:
And yes, forthcoming: The Field Study Handbook, condenses 15 years of hard lessons.
@dcurtis I thought that at first, but reading @RyanHoliday "Trust me, I'm Lying" changed my mind. Also this:
A really nice look at React and the problems it's trying to solve
Blockbuster undercover prison report cost @motherjones $350k to produce, brought in $5k advertising. Support them:
This is is trillion with a t
I gave up arguing against pull quotes on the web years ago and support @adactio's quest to understand their purpose
~@metafizzyco Flickity is by far the best slider I’ve used. So simple, doesn’t need dependencies & customizable 🔝💯
Design outside the rectangle. Great talk by @jensimmons.
@chapter_three Your HTTPS Certificate is broken on ! :o
This is how you resist arrest
I've tweeted at a few products guilty of "Shit Loop #2" before. Thanks @azumbrunnen_ for articulating it far better.
“it is the functioning toward the goal which is important.”
@brad_frost Rome is pretty nice.
@brad_frost
@brad_frost Don’t exactly know what you are looking for, but there is this:
"People mostly want to feel seen and heard" and other things @coreycaitlin learned.
Digging these "hand forged" garden clippers:
“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
Another great thing about is that it's a wonderful creative exercise. Progressive enhancement gets you to *think*.
Did Hitler have good designers? Does design have a duty to be good?
Starting at 6 minutes, Brandon Marshall talks about mental health & fitness, therapy, and black-and-white thinking —
This. “Three years ago, I would say: You. But right now, I don’t know.”