Links from 2017 (610 links)

npmls2dg - npm ls to dependency graph Convert the output of npm ls --json to a dependency graph. For more info, visit the GitHub repo:…

Earlier this year, Jen Simmons asked the following question: From your memory, which browser has now twice the user base of Internet Explorer (globally)? (Don’t…

I can't help it. These are so bad/good that I'm making an effort to memorize them all. This is one of the ways I avoid being invited to too many dinners and parties.

Via ttscoff.

Why Get Safe? We lock the doors to our houses, but our whole lives are stored on our phones and computers. If we don’t lock down our devices, all of our…

Paul Ford Co-founder, http://postlight.com, a digital product studio in NYC. Also writer, Medium advisor, programmer. Any port in a storm, especially ports 80…

This application is a living style guide, generated from KSS documented styles...with an accessibility twist. How this all got started We wear a lot of hats as…

There’s been a lot of buzz around Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) lately, with many people questioning whether they represent the future of the (mobile) web. I’m…

What if a user visiting an e-commerce site wants to change the language of the site? Or the currency? Thinking about currency, the main reason a user would…

Thirty PSC contactors will abandon an overrun £16.5million health service IT project after a NHS trust said it would declare them all inside IR35 from April 6…

The way that contractors work in the public sector is changing and it is important to be aware of how these changes could affect you. From 6 April this year,…

Welcome to my modern JavaScript stack tutorial: JavaScript Stack from Scratch . 🎉 This is the V2 of the tutorial, major changes happened since the 2016 release.…

Illustration by Kevin Cornell Grids serve well to divide up a predefined canvas and guide how content fits onto a page, but when designing for the web’s fluid…

Learn JavaScript using… JavaScript. Image via learnyounode . There’s a certain kind of old-school, backend web developer who, a long time ago, mastered things…

Checkboxes and radios <label class= "control checkbox" > <input type= "checkbox" > <span class= "control-indicator" ></span> Check this custom checkbox </label>…

Nicole Ginelli Ambient music has been on its second (or third?) rise for a little while now, but at present it’s rivaling the wave of the mid ‘90s, when it…

Scroll Behavior polyfill

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

How to Share a Design System in Sketch, Part 2: GitHub In the first post in this series, we talked about the pros and cons of using cloud storage systems like…

Common architectural motifs can be seen across many of Brasília’s civic buildings. The final part of a three-part essay based on the talk I gave at Smashing…

There was no better time than the 1990s to be young, female, and angry. Riot Grrrl's feminist thrash finally offered women an alternative-music scene of their…

No, this is not a broken page or a sneaky landing page. Today marks an important milestone in Smashing Magazine’s life, and this very page is an early preview…

Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option theguardian.com/world/2017/mar…

L ast month, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden had a public conversation about democracy, transparency, whistleblowing and more. In the course of it, Snowden –…

In his talk, Baur notes that he got these numbers from talks given by Times graphic editors Gregor Aisch and Archie Tse (you can find Aisch’s talk here and…

‘Reward saving by matching what your child puts aside or agreeing to put something towards it.’Photograph: Beyond Fotomedia GmbH/Alamy 1. Show them the money.…

Our comms team told us we need an image; our legal team told us it needed to be freely licensed. Credit: Carsten Schertzer (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 )…

Perceptual JPEG encoder

Enlarge / This image has not been run through Google's new JPEG encoder. But that doesn't make it any less magical. Harry Langdon/Getty Images Share this story…

Let’s say you’re making a blog post layout. Content is entered into a CMS inside a WYSIWYG editor field. You echo that conent to the page. You pull it up on a…

Only 2 out of every 1000 mobile web users ever tap a custom share button—like even once—according to a Moovweb study . We found similarly tiny numbers during…

The past year has seen quite a rise in UI design tools. While existing applications, such as Affinity Designer , Gravit and Sketch , have improved drastically,…

The goal of a UI Engineer at Optimizely is to make it easy to implement high-quality UIs that look and behave consistently. That’s why we’re on the design team…

Make Composable, not Customizable Components Posted on: 02/27/2017 One of the challenges of developing for an open source design system like Fabric React is…

Benefits of design system and how to build it Bypass design system concept In my last article “ How to get a head start on design system ”, I talked about how…

I often spend my spare time surfing the net, looking for useful resources and articles about Sketch–anything that might help improve my design workflow and…

Introducing Craft Screen Design. Supercharged. Craft is a suite of plugins to let you design with real data in mind. Manage them via the new Craft Manager for…

Many teams working with Sketch use a design system to scale their design, boost their productivity, and create consistent, cohesive products. Sharing a design…

In a previous post , we briefly talked about setting up shared styles. We had a primary brand color and a secondary brand color and made them their own styles.…

Via monospaced.

Thursday, 16 March 2017 The State of Browser Caching, Revisited Filed under: HTTP Caching A long, long time ago, I wrote some tests using XmlHttpRequest to…

In a recent article here on the AxBlog I extolled the virtues of the accrual of technical credit and provided several examples of how we think the strategy has…

0 Tweet 742 Share 0 Share 100 Pin 0 Mail 0 Share Traditional gardening books often tell you to replace the compost or soil in your pots each year. But if you…

The chancellor, Philip Hammond, who was criticised by Tory backbenchers over the national insurance rise.Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Rex/Shutterstock Philip…

We at Nimuno have spent our lives building and creating using LEGO®. As professional designers, we see the creative potential it offers people young and old. In…

There’s an old hack for creating elements with a fixed aspect ratio that involves using a percentage-based padding. You may be familiar with it. It looks…

As a sustainable lifestyle blogger, my job is to make conscious consumerism look good. Over the course of four years Instagramming eco-friendly outfits, testing…