1988 remake of The Blob was actually a bit better than I expected. Not as gloriously ridiculous as The Stuff but still a lot of fun 🙂
“Is there a cold war between Android and Chrome because of PWAs?”
I don’t know if the Cold War angle is true but it’s obvious from the post that Microsoft actually has the opportunity to become better at PWAs than Google.
“Michael Tsai - Blog - Make the iPad More Like the Mac”
I have serious doubts that Apple will ever manage to get the iPad to adequately cover the remaining task sets that are still effectively mac-only like Xcode.
“Consistency in Design is the Wrong Approach — UX Articles by UIE”
“UI Design for the Graphic Designer – Insightful Software”
“Functionality is the chasm between graphic and interface design.”
A big, big chasm in my experience.
“A Touch of Touch — Pixel Envy”
“3D Touch is far from ideal. It is horribly inconsistent and undiscoverable.”
3D Touch is just one example of the lack of discoverability (and learnability) that plagues touch interfaces.
“Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region - All Things Distributed”
“Two Nerdy History Girls: A Few of My Favorite Nerdy History Books”
This is a very dangerous blog post; full of interesting book recs
“Examining the degrees of Fortune 500 tech CEOs”
The ‘college dropout CEO’ turns out to be the exception, not the rule.
“Even self-driving leader Waymo is struggling to reach full autonomy - Ars Technica”
“Free code of conduct enforcement book available now – Frame Shift Consulting”
“An Introduction and Guide to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM) - CSS-Tricks”
“Apple Books files gone missing – Lorem Ipsum”
Cloud services are nearly universally a usability nightmare.
“What Can Be Learned From The Gutenberg Accessibility Situation? — Smashing Magazine”
“Here’s an example from a few weeks back in Sweden: a government-run website made a sex education video. Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat blocked it.”
“Daring Fireball: Electron and the Decline of Native Apps”
While I don’t share his loathing of all apps Electron he is right that the era of the native app as a design paradigm is over. And we honestly haven’t seen a paradigmatic great web app yet.
Sounds like I picked a good couple of weeks to be too busy to follow W3C discussions or emails.
“Browser diversity starts with us. - Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design”
“Test all your sites in Firefox.”
Firefox is my primary dev browser on all desktop OSes. Even on ChromeOS where I just use the desktop Linux Firefox.