“Pixels of the Week – March 24, 2019, by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
I’m just going to link to this entire thing and pick out individual links later. Too many interesting articles 🙂
Why wasn’t this ‘petition’ mentioned at all when we learned about French philosophers at university? Fuck all of these creepy pedophile motherfuckers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of_consent_laws
Grapevine explains my favourite Icelandic word jæja
Some meanings it missed:
- That’s surprising
- That’s a good idea
- That’s a dumb idea, what are you thinking
- It could be worse
- It could be better
And many more
Renewing my warning about Wow Air: they’re basically bankrupt and their hail Mary play just fell through. Make sure to order using a credit card, if at all www.icelandreview.com/news/indi…
“Using details for Menus and Dialogs is an Interesting Idea - CSS-Tricks”
In my testing details (with some JS) worked great for menus but its need for a specific markup structure makes it awkward for many dialogs.
“All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS - Clagnut by Richard Rutter”
“Your Accessibility Toolbar Doesn’t Help - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility”
“Pika - A Future Without Webpack”
This looks like a nice starting point for new projects. You can always switch to a bundled later on.
“Web Businesses — Why using Wix and GoDaddy Increases your Lawsuit Risk”
“Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias”
“If digital utopia doesn’t see our bodies, it makes sense it cannot see our work”
“Building accessible websites and apps is a moral obligation - Go Make Things”
“Adactio: Journal—CSS custom properties in generated content”
“Creating A Universal Image Crop/Scale Animation for the Web”
This is pretty interesting.
“Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 78 - WebKit”
“Enabled support for Pointer Events by default”
Why, hello there.
“The Online Photographer: Killing Themselves Softly With Complexification-Saturation
“I still think the camera companies are killing themselves with complexity. It’s easier to figure out a new computer than it is to figure out a new camera.”
Yes.
“The reading/reviewing/ranking rat race – ReaderWriterVille”
“’Three criticisms of sex education – and why they’re wrong’ - Tes News”
“Canary in a Coal Mine: How Tech Provides Platforms for Hate · An A List Apart Article”
“Colourise your black and white photos”
If I wanted a textbook example of how engineers commonly don’t understand culture and specifically don’t understand the interplay between society and culture, this would be it.
Isn’t March supposed to be warmer than this?
“MySpace lost all music uploaded from 2003 to 2015 - technology”
Yowza.
Trying out this ‘weeknote’ thing. ‘Weeknote 1’: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2019/03/1…
“How to automate NPM deployment with GitHub action hooks - Go Make Things”