What if the header was the footer? @SidebarIO redesigns, experiments and breaks the conventions of scrolling—
Saved links
A saved link is not an endorsement. It's just a thing I read or thought about reading.
It's easy to forget how many input types there are and how they affect keyboards on mobile.
So excited about Fractal, @clearleft’s tool for developing, maintaining, and integrating your component libraries:
MULTICHANNEL TEXT PROCESSING by @iA — "Markdown could be our golden gun. If only it looked a little shinier!"
How I draw my calendars:
Freecotton
Longform seems to have slapped up a new gorgeous greyscale design:
We're about a month away from publication of THE BOOK:
Happy to say our site has been nominated for 'Breakthrough of the Year' by @ThirdSector
A note on the team building @outline with me
Topolsky's at it again —
If you prefer quality over cruft to go with your news media diet, you'll appreciate The @Outline.
Desalination is working for Israel. I'd love to see more innovation like this.
P.S. this is the best case study ever written about taxonomy, reading it is very soothing.
If you're looking to download YouTube videos, youtube-dl is pretty amazing:
Why focusing on a few products is hard
I did a Q&A with @nkulw at @Recode and it was a dream come true
.@newyorker: "subscription-based journalism... is rapidly becoming financially viable" #2MA
Keep earning your title, or it expires :
"It is time for the United States to speak the language that Mr. Assad and Mr. Putin understand." #WishfulThinking
I love this story of a dad being intentional about the lessons he teaches his daughter. (via @dwaldron)
Facebook to websites: stop clickbait headlines -- or else via @CNNMoney
“Don’t use hover as the primary action to trigger anything essential…” — @jordanstaniscia
The Intrinsic Economy by @Grant27 Not sure of the full title, but interesting read.
Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor. Some interesting points to consider ~
Learn about Bloom filters and an amusing story to boot.
RT @Blendle: "Is America really great?" — @tejucole on racial tension in today's #LunchwiththeFT
Researching Design Systems by @danielmall:
Are you #Aegir #BOA user? Learn how to participate in the #BOA #docs rewrite effort: #Drupal
If you’ve ever wondered how we roll at @studio_d_rad, read this piece by @jessiwrites on our Saudi work:
And yes, forthcoming: The Field Study Handbook, condenses 15 years of hard lessons.
@dcurtis I thought that at first, but reading @RyanHoliday "Trust me, I'm Lying" changed my mind. Also this:
A really nice look at React and the problems it's trying to solve
Blockbuster undercover prison report cost @motherjones $350k to produce, brought in $5k advertising. Support them:
This is is trillion with a t
I gave up arguing against pull quotes on the web years ago and support @adactio's quest to understand their purpose
~@metafizzyco Flickity is by far the best slider I’ve used. So simple, doesn’t need dependencies & customizable 🔝💯
Design outside the rectangle. Great talk by @jensimmons.
@chapter_three Your HTTPS Certificate is broken on ! :o
This is how you resist arrest
I've tweeted at a few products guilty of "Shit Loop #2" before. Thanks @azumbrunnen_ for articulating it far better.
“it is the functioning toward the goal which is important.”
@brad_frost Rome is pretty nice.
@brad_frost
@brad_frost Don’t exactly know what you are looking for, but there is this:
"People mostly want to feel seen and heard" and other things @coreycaitlin learned.
Digging these "hand forged" garden clippers:
“Fill your archaic headphone connector with aluminium and plug into the future.”
US religion is worth $1.2T/year, more than America's 10 biggest tech companies, combined
Another great thing about is that it's a wonderful creative exercise. Progressive enhancement gets you to *think*.
Did Hitler have good designers? Does design have a duty to be good?
Starting at 6 minutes, Brandon Marshall talks about mental health & fitness, therapy, and black-and-white thinking —
This. “Three years ago, I would say: You. But right now, I don’t know.”
OMG I'm in love #codepen #aeaorl
$settings['hash_salt'] = 'some_random_string';
if you're a Christian and support Donald Trump, I hope you'll read this thing I wrote and reconsider
There’s a new bar for typeface websites: Damn, @grillitype. 👏
@beep @wilto OMG FANCY BEAR
@iA @Medium or is an imposter?
a nice straightforward guide to contributing to a project on GitHub
Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded
RT @hale_a: Sometime all too soon, the entire programmatic infrastructure that underpins independent pubs is going to fall apart
The $13 Billion Zipper Wars
The role of spice as driver for early globalisation Excerpt of new book by @stevenbjohnson
Fake news exists because people want it. Yes. Facebook is a platform to amplify it. Yes. C’est la vie? No.
Realizing the election has turned me into a "manic information addict." Now looking for a way back to balance.
✨AHH SO excited to join the AEA fam in 2017✨ I even get a discount code!: AEAUNA for $100 off any 2 or 3-day event
“How the Web Became Unreadable” by @kevinmarks
is 9 years old today 🎂 🎉
Want to reduce racial bias? Don't call someone a racist.
82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t tell the difference between a news article and an ad labeled “sponsored content.”
WE DID IT! @MarkKnopfler @John_Illsley via @youtube
What do people agree by convention and what is the truth? There is a consensus of things for people to be true maybe its right and