“If only we’d known, say the people who knew – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
“The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation – Tink”
Like Patreon but for open source dev. GitHub integration is an obvious plus. Uses ACH transfers for payment so it might be more international dev friendly than many of its competitors.
“inessential: Still Fearing the Reaper”
“Because bringing UIKit brings no new power.”
“Panic Blog » Announcing the Playdate® handheld video game system.”
Sounds like a fun little device.
“Internship Opening at Pressbooks - Pressbooks”
Paid and in Montréal.
“ReaderWriterLinks - ReaderWriterVille”
“The upside is that a lot more authors can break through. The downside is that the cultural space is fragmented and so is the discourse.”
“My views on this are centrist”
Buh-byyyyeeeeee.
“Accessible Icon Buttons — Sara Soueidan – Freelance-Front-End UI/UX Developer”
“Contextually Marking up accessible images and SVGs - scottohara.me”
“Understanding the Kano Model — A Tool for Sophisticated Designers”
“Go is Google’s language, not ours”
This is Google standard operating procedure and applies to so many more of their OSS projects.
“Money on the Table: Opportunities Missed in the eBook Supply Chain”
What he said.
“The Modern Trap of Feeling Obligated to Turn Hobbies Into Hustles”
Going from Raskin’s Humane Interface to Bolter’s Writing Space is jarring. Raskin’s writing is intellectual and research-oriented but always precise and always focused on practice.
Meanwhile Bolter’s is full of so much academic bla bla bla and citation posturing.
A day off. Good coffee. Reading books. Pretty good so far.
Been spending re-reading a couple of interactivity design/UX classics:
- Raph Koster’s A Theory of Fun for Game Design is of its time. At worst harmless. At best inspiring
- Jef Raskin’s The Humane Interface is amazing and surprisingly timeless
“24 Hours with TypeScript – hueniverse”
“I was constantly surprised just how immature the TypeScript ecosystem is.”
I keep running into the same thing whenever I try TypeScript.
“East Iceland Village Pleads With Tourists To Behave Themselves”
This sort of tourist misbehaviour isn’t limited to small rural villages. They do this in Reykjavík as well.
For some reason unknown to me, Davíð Stefánsson’s poem Abba Labba Lá just pops into my head and stays there until I exorcise it by either reading it out loud or playing a video of somebody reading/singing it.