Links from 2015 (401 links)

Pleasantly baffled by how many people have listened to this 2010 LJ Kruzer track. freemusicarchive.org/music/LJ_Kruze…

When lightboxes and overlays first appeared a few years ago, they provided an elegant solution to a tricky interaction-design challenge: how to convey important…

Displays a list of keyboard shortcuts you can use on the command line in your terminal.

(This article is part of the MicroConf 2015 Recap . Want to explore more talks from the event? Go back to the Recap Hub ) Main Concept Ship something! It…

Cross-platform command-line app for moving files and directories to the trash. A safer alternative to `rm`.

If you build software, keep a changelog.

Generate! operation Ruby panther Built with WTF Engine by Justin

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Most of us are aware of the notion in software engineering of having a "Separation of Concerns". It's one of the holy truths of computer science. An unbreakable…

Internet Explorer 9–11 suffer from various bugs that prevent proper scaling of inline SVG’s. This is particularly problematic for SVG icons with variable…

Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)

I’m working on a project at Twitter that uses React and webpack. After a few conversations with @sokra last year, this is the setup I put in place for testing…

When we last left our intrepid web developers, they had discovered the power of srcset width descriptors, only to be faced with a new challenge—the browser only…

React Style Authoring React components always was a joy as it gives you a codebase with clear boundaries between concerns. However React.js, like most other…

by Eric Portis · May 01, 2015 Ad via The Deck Job listings via We Work Remotely In “Responsive Images in Practice” I made no little hay that sizes was…

Three years on, web components should be everywhere Why has this taken so long?! Vendors couldn't agree 😭 Until now, only a Google effort Very ambitious…

PostCSS plugin to transform global selectors into the local scope format of Webpack’s css-loader. WARNING: This project depends on css-loader’s local scope…

..or the struggles with contextual styling. — Using CSS components is somewhat straightforward. We add the markup and give it the component’s class name and all…

I remember when a friend of mine moved to Paris in the 90s to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. He came back to England, disillusioned, five years later, calling the city "a museum" – mummified, stagnant, a victim of its own past glories, bought up by rich outsiders who'd out-priced the creative vibe that drew them there in the first place. The locals, wistful and resigned, referred to their city as "The Sleeping Beauty", looking on enviously at how London was ablaze with the best art, the best music, the best nightlife, the best creativity of any stripe, while they were left with only fine wine and memories, as Uncle Monty might have put it. Is London headed the same way as The Sleeping Beauty – an exquisite corpse, too dolled up and expensive for the creativity it's still trading on to flourish, or even survive?

Over the past few months at Segment we’ve been rebuilding large parts of our app UI. A lot of it had become impossible to maintain because we were relying on…

RICHARD SMYTH Does too much modern nature writing bear ‘the smudges of the writers’ desperate groping for the mot juste ’? A Northern goshawk (Accipiter…

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I recently stumbled across an excellent talk by Nicolas Gallagher at dotCSS 2014 titled “Thinking beyond Scalable CSS” where he shed some light on how Twitter…

We know that we have built something which is genuinely useful: almost any team which adopts Slack as their central application for communication would be…

This is a unique open collaboration between the Department of Twin Research at King's College London and The American Gut Project (AGP) to try to understand…

Since starting the new job and spending a lot more time on trains between here and London, I've had to start thinking about how I fill those commuting hours. As…

Orson Welles would have been 100 this month. When he died in 1985, aged 70, the wonder was that he had lasted so long. His bulk was so immense, his…

Last week we were working on making our website indexable for search engines. This is the story of rewriting it and the summary of what we have learnt.…

TL;DR: Today me and Tobias released our new web performance dashboard: three Docker containers that makes it super easy to setup something like this:…

In his article  Obvious Always Wins , Luke Wroblewski warns of the dangers of sweeping links and actions under the rug. It’s challenging to find the room to…

BEM was a transformative methodology in the world of CSS, but — when limited to the style sheet — it can only take us so far. The act of defining “blocks”…

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four simple timing rules discovered by researchers at the Sleep Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh

The word mobile has come to mean many things. But when designing mobile software, we need some clarity. What kind of devices are we talking about?

"Education should indeed be responsive to the needs of society. But this is not the same as regarding yourself as a service station for neocapitalism. In fact, you would tackle society’s needs a great deal more effectively were you to challenge this whole alienated model of learning. Medieval universities served the wider society superbly well, but they did so by producing pastors, lawyers, theologians, and administrative officials who helped to sustain church and state, not by frowning upon any form of intellectual activity that might fail to turn a quick buck." Terry Eagleton on good form.

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Some suspect both an increase in our close-up work time (think computer use) and a decrease in time spent outdoors.