Links from 2016 (547 links)

Advertisement Living style guides are an important tool for web development today, especially in large, complex web applications. They help document styles and…

In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services —the predecessor of the post-war CIA—was concerned with sabotage directed against enemies of the US military. Among…

Some of the letters and cards that were sent to Robert Macfarlane A few days after Landmarks was published last spring, the first postcard arrived. It was of…

stylelint-scss A collection of SCSS specific linting rules for stylelint (in a form of a plugin). Purpose stylelint by itself supports SCSS syntax very well (as…

I had hoped this post would never be needed. However as is often the case what we maintainers assume is common knowledge in reality is far from it. Firstly lets…

Frustrated to be ourincrediblejourney'd by @sunrise. blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642…

Boris Johnson leaves an ice cream parlour on the outskirts of St Austell, Cornwall.Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters Launching the Vote Leave battlebus with an…

A PostCSS plugin to create a custom vertical rhythm unit from the base font-size and line-height.

As four people who are blind and care deeply about making the web more accessible, we strongly believe user testing should include people with disabilities. But…

Simple, CSS utility classes for advanced typographic features.

Cli for cssstats | npm i -g cssstats-cli

Simple Nunjucks CLI wrapper and templates watcher

‘The CIPD survey also cites bad management as a cause of job dissatisfaction.’ David Brent (Ricky Gervais) in The OfficePhotograph: Adrian Rogers/BBC A re you…

← Home The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a new take on an idea that's been gaining some traction over the last few years, that is, to publish papers…

This is sort of a response to Adam “ @mrmrs_ ” Morse’s “ Webfonts .” It’s not a rebuttal by any means, but rather a collection of my own thoughts that at least…

Editor’s Draft, 15 January 2015 This version: http://responsiveimagescg.github.io/eq-usecases/ Editors: ( RICG ) Scott Jehl ( Filament Group ) Version History:…

Writing Speaking Training Work With Me How fast should your UI animations be? May 5th, 2016 This is a question I get asked a lot at workshops and talks, and…

You might have heard about PostCSS and CSS modules but you are still recovering from the onslaught of 10,000 other frontend build process changes. The question…

T he feeling of despair that descends on hearing the theme tune of the CBeebies television show Me Too! is unmistakable. At 6am, it is the first show on the…

We have all had the experience of getting lost while being informed of precisely where we are.Photograph: Alamy I n early 2008, for quixotic reasons that…

The need to raise a large deposit is often blamed for stopping people from getting on the property ladder.Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA The no-deposit mortgage has…

Bash prompt with colors, git statuses, and git branches.

A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php.

Fractal A tool to help you build , document and integrate component/pattern libraries into your web projects. Introduction Component (or pattern) libraries are…

‘Cause native apps do some things better If you were expecting all things React web at ReactConf this year you might have left disappointed, React Native was…

28th April 2016 Here at Clearleft we’ve been building website component libraries (often also called pattern libraries or styleguides) for quite a while - in…

Being A Developer After 40 (This is the talk I have given at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th, 2016. The slides are available on SpeakerDeck and at the…

Parse and output TODOs and FIXMEs from comments in your files

10 Principles to let long-form articles more readable If you are going to expand your service into Asia. First, you may see the language wall (and then the…

If you’ve read thoughtbot’s Git protocol guide , you’ll know thatonce a branch has been code reviewed, we encourage the branch’s author to use an interactive…

Favourite quote so far this week: "Support is bafflingly nuanced." helpx.adobe.com/typekit/using/…

Display the description of your npm scripts

Via monospaced.

PostCSS plugin to add :focus selector to every :hover for keyboard accessibility

Flexbox Patterns Source on GitHub Tweet this Flexbox is awesome, but it introduces many new concepts that can make it difficult to use. These interactive…

I recently redesigned and implemented a new version of VideoPress, the WordPress video platform. The process involved, among other things, creating a new UI,…

UI development as a first-class citizen The single hardest part of front-end development at any scale is making changes to code and understanding all of the…

Command line interface for browerslist

Handlebars helpers which implement layout blocks similar to Jinja, Nunjucks (Swig), Pug (Jade), and Twig.

This is an Express view engine which renders React components on server. It renders static markup and *does not* support mounting those views on the client.

I recently took part in a panel discussion discussing continuous delivery of micro-services hosted by ElectricCloud with Daniel Rolnick , Darko Fabijan and…

15 April 2016 In which I explain the many and varied reasons why I decided that my life wouldbe happier outside of the Government Digital Service after 3+ years…

Patterns mean a lot of things to a lot of different industries, from fabric patterns in fashion to patterns for sand casting metal components. Even within the…

The Experimental Layout Lab of Jen Simmons Check back often. This will keep changing. Includes the demos for: Revolutionize Your Page: Real Art Direction on the…

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to…