“Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS - Signal v. Noise”
“Mette Harrison On Revising The Right Way - K. Tempest Bradford”
“Beyond the interface — Thomas Byttebier”
This week’s must-read.
0Progressive enhancement doesn’t have to be more work - Go Make Things”
“193764 – Template Literal GC’ed Against Specs”
Ugh.
“The Rules Won’t Save You, So Stop Looking For Them - K. Tempest Bradford”
“What White, Western Audiences Don’t Understand About Marie Kondo’s ‘Tidying Up’”
“Everything is terrible (but more so inside a keypress event handler)”
Here’s a possibly unpopular opinion: scrolling text with space between paragraphs has become the most readable form of text layout on the screen through convention and familiarity.
Those of us persisting with indents and pagination are prioritising tradition over readability
“Michael Tsai - Blog - Flexgate: Display Issues With 2016 and Newer MacBook Pro’s”
“This is just not a good generation of Mac notebooks.”
Expensive and unreliable.
“Nuance Has Abandoned Mac Speech Recognition. Will Apple Fill the Void? - TidBITS”
The comment from a Nuance employee provides important context.
“Michael Tsai - Blog - iPhone XS Fails After Quick Drop in Water”
“WebExtensions v3 considered harmful - Glazblog”
“The Browser Extension ecosystem is in jail, subject to unpredictable harmful changes decided by one single actor”
I’m sure those who praised a Chromium monoculture earlier will explain to us why this is double plus good
Think this must be a back entrance to the building next door because it’s still covered in snow like this three days later.
“The Great Escapist: 1900 - Shorpy Old Photos - Vintage Photography”
Totally posing a link to this picture of Houdini because of its historical significance. Totally.
“I’m a Web Designer - Andy Bell”
I’ve already forgotten what my official job title at Rebus is.
“Building Better Forms™ by not taking away affordances – Bram.us”
“Designing Front End Apps For Reliability - benmccormick.org”