Links from 2015 (401 links)

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Just last month, 300,748 Sketch designs were exported to Zeplin, turned into powerful specs and resources. AVAILABLE FOR MAC, WEB NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED &…

When people talk about innovation in healthcare, they have in mind a new malaria vaccine or a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. But these breakthroughs, despite the continued investment of hundreds of millions of pounds in research and development, are increasingly rare. The big gains in the future are likely to involve adaptations of existing technology such as mobile phones to enable the delivery of new forms of care in new ways by new players.

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2015-10-21 People often ask me what I’m doing now. Each time I would type out a reply, describing where I’m at, what I’m focused on, and what I’m not. So…

Last night I installed OSX’s new “El Capitain” update, and it broke most of the tools I use in my daily life as a developer, including homebrew and git. Here…

Discord is always completely free to use with no gotchas. This means you can make as many servers as you want with no slot limitations. Wondering how we’ll make…

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I spent five years working on a mobile news app — first as an editor helping curate and package content and then as a product manager shepherding it through a…

We’re at the rotten end of winter: still dark by five, still brutally cold, no Christmas to look forward to, and spring, despite what Shelley said, still looks…

In this quick write-up, we’ll cover how to take advantage of your existing knowledge of features in Sublime Text and apply them to another powerful tool in your…

Table of Contents Introduction Scale Mode Guides Grapple Tool Line Tool Rectangle Tool Hand Tool and Zoom Tool Marquee Tool Move Tool Keyboard Selection…

This post will take 1 minute to read. Tables can be tricky to work with and they aren’t naturally responsive. Chris Coyier has a great write up on CSS-Tricks…

An excellent collection of Sketch.app templates, icons, and UI elements.

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When was the last time you bought a CD or a record? Chances are, you’re listening to more music than ever, but buying less of it. In 2012, for the first time,…

Previously I wrote about Web Components standards and polyfills and how they’ll finally bring us closer to a web build with reusable and isolated components.…

This is a walk-through of the steps I personally took in a single year, to begin learning JavaScript. My goal was to be able to get a job in a position where…

Another better `npm publish`

Since the last post on CSS was popular here is another simple CSS trick that I found useful in the past. Let’s say we want to find the difference between these…

npm is at the core of developing in Node . Most of us use it to get packages, set up the package.json etc. But when you put it together with the vast…

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For the past eleven months I’ve been the tech lead for Twitter’s Engineering Effectiveness group. Engineering Effectiveness is our name for what elsewhere might…

A collection of awesome things regarding React ecosystem

Find broken links, missing images, etc within your HTML.

A year ago at PayPal we re-built our Checkout flow using Angular. We’ve learned a lot along the way. Angular’s surface area is huge; as a framework, it’s taken…

Adblock filter list to block obtrusive EU cookie law notices. What is Prebake? Prebake is an Adblock filter subscription that blocks large, obtrusive cookie…

The best apps for finding work wherever you are in the world

The web consists of content, content consists of words and words can be long, very long. Everyone involved with the web will sooner or later have to deal with…

Early this year, the Internet Archive put out a call for a distributed web . We heard them loud and clear. Today I'm making an announcement that begins our…

New Ratatat album! OK, released July, but that's basically 0-day in dad time. avclub.com/review/ratatat…

Providing a solid base for redesigning the native select element

Idle Words > Talks > What Happens Next Will Amaze You This is the text version of a talk I gave on September 14, 2015, at the FREMTIDENS INTERNET conference in…

We are considering a move from England to Scotland in the next year or so and in order to make a decision about where to live etc. I need information on…

Opening a savings account in a child's name may seem like a great way to give Junior a head start on a lifetime of thrift. However, it can come back to haunt…

I spent a good chunk of the last four days installing an Internet web forum, which claims it can be up and running in 30 minutes. I like to think I’m pretty…

Microservices are a thing these days. When I was at SoundCloud , I was responsible for the migration from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a…

In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site, host Soledad O’Brien sits at a bar in front of a laptop computer, talking to Dev Null, a full-scale…

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“Hunting for distribution rights is essentially detective work,” says Marcin Paczyński, Head of Product at GOG. “Rights can repeatedly change hands or be split…

What is automatic enrolment? The law on workplace pensions has changed. Every employer with at least one member of staff now has new duties, including enrolling…

I just had my responsive images epiphany and I'm writing it all down before I forget everything. This is what I know… Fixed size, varying density If your image…

How to keep your kids happy at 30,000 feet: a frequent-flying mum reveals her top tips. At holiday time, parents around the world worry about the ‘joys’ of…

A new favourite ambiguous headline: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Three years ago, I started making these fun characters out of food for my daughter’s school lunches. Anonymous internet parents started telling me “You have too…