Wow.
“Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 0: no, it’s not fixable. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
“Adactio: Journal—Subscribing to newsletters”
This. Every major newsletter platform automatically provides RSS feeds. No need to clutter up your inbox.
“A practical guide to changing code so you can understand it: Automated refactoring tools basics”
“Peering into the accessibility of Dark Mode - by Dora Cee - UX Collective”
“Whether you use Light or Dark Mode is more of an expression of identity rather than one rooted in productivity outcomes”
What does “vanilla JS” mean to people? Does it mean JS with no dependencies (write everything yourself)? Does it mean no frameworks, but anything else goes? Does it just mean that you don’t use non-standard extensions to the platform’s languages (jsx, custom attributes, etc)?
“Help Me Help You: A Guide to Asking for Help - Kitty Giraudel”
It’s kind of remarkable how lower my computing requirements are now that I don’t use Slack. Memory pressure and CPU load is lower on all of my devices. I need less screen real estate to work. All because of the absence of one megalithic electron app.
Kind of impressive how useful it is, when you’re working on something complex, to regularly step back and ask yourself “hang on, what’s the simplest thing that could actually work here?”
Too often you realise that you’ve been way overthinking the problem.
“Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch - Tink - Léonie Watson”
“What is the best way to mark up an exclusive button group? – Lea Verou”
“Distraction-free writing environment” is not something an app can deliver. Everything in a writing app’s UI has to do with writing. The apps themselves can be cluttered but they’re never distractions. Being distracted is exclusively a function of the environment and the writer.
“The CSS behind Figma - Ahmad Shadeed”
Lot’s of interesting tactics there.
Idle thought of the day: if you assume that environmental crises, political instability, and authoritarian states are going to become more common over the next couple of decades, how would that change the way you design your websites and apps?
Essay on photography in a weirdo format. If you’re like me and the title leads to you expect a Tanizaki reference, you will not be disappointed.
Life’s too short to debate the absurd opinions of web dev influencers on social media.