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- Recession: Simple Advice for Designers | 3. Running a design firm (Noisy Decent Graphics) noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com
Some stellar advice here.
There’s really only one key factor that distinguishes enterprise selling from everything a product person knows, and that is enterprise selling ends with the product and starts with the enterprise. Of course that is the complete opposite of what one might normally think where everything starts with a product. Even with the most amazing and inventive product ever conceived, selling at the enterprise level and enterprise scale requires inverting your perspective.
- Butterick’s Practical Typography 2nd edition practicaltypography.com
New in the second edition: emoticons and emoji, metrics vs. optical spacing, free fonts, Century Schoolbook alternatives, grids, screen-reading considerations, responsive web design, how to work with a designer, the copyright status of fonts, how this book was made, and typographic humor.
- Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done nngroup.com
Jobs-to-be-done focus on user problems and needs, while well-executed personas include the same information and also add behavioral and attitudinal details.
CoScreen enables you and your team members to share and edit any app windows simultaneously on your joint workspace. Stop giving up your privacy by sharing your entire screen.
- What contractors' clients asked just before today’s IR35 reform hit contractoruk.com
The newly enhanced scope of IR35 is not an end to consultancy-client relationships. However, it has caused confusion and prompted some end-users to become very cautious about using PSC contractors provided by consultancies.
- Choosy: A smarter default browser for macOS choosyosx.com
Instead of opening links in the default browser, Choosy sends them to the right browser. Every time.
- Plastic flower pots, Kings seeds – Plant Pots Direct plantpotsdirect.com
- Banked: Shipping web components in 2020 banked.com
This actually feels like a very sane use-case for Web Components. Interesting journey from Vanilla JS to raw Web Components to tooling + Web Components.
- 🛰️ See A Satellite Tonight james.darpinian.com
- Debranding Is the New Branding bloomberg.com
The difficulty of ensuring that any logo (let alone an intricate, dimensional logo) stands out from the kaleidoscopic eye-candy of ads, apps and open tabs is one driver behind “mobile first” design. Here identity and functionality are conceived from the outset inside the tightest constraints — for what works on a cellphone will surely work on a water-tower.
Such pixel-fixation is table-stakes for modern startups, but legacy brands must be canny when reverse-engineering decades of brand equity into today’s digital Lilliput.
It's very pleasing to have a name and a creditable stab at a rationale for this trend.
Via 💥BLAST!
- Freelance Friendly Network freelancefriendly.network
A directory of communities for freelancers and small businesses.
Edgar Wright and Dolby Cinema announced that a never-before-seen version of Universal Pictures' 2010 hit cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will be coming to theaters on April 30. The film has been reimagined in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos and will play exclusively at Dolby Cinema locations in the U.S. for one week only. "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was designed for the big screen and for the best sound systems," said Edgar Wright, the film's director, producer, and co-screenwriter. "To be able to see it with the best specs is obviously any filmmaker's dream. You want people to see it as good as it could possibly be. I suspect that if you're a fan of the movie, you're going to get such a kick out of seeing it like this."
Maybe one day this will be shown outside the U.S., too.
- Web Development History webdevelopmenthistory.com
An ongoing project to chronicle the history of the internet from a developer perspective.
- Ted Lasso VFX Breakdowns vimeo.com
In retrospect it seems obvious that a relatively low-budget TV show needing stadium crowd shots during a pandemic would make heavy use of VFX.
- AI Weirdness • GPT-3 tries pickup lines aiweirdness.com
(In your best Albert Einstein voice) “I wouldn’t change a thing.”
- A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components — Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
- Simplified data requests with 11ty · Jan Früchtl fruechtl.me
- Mother Earth’s Plantasia pitchfork.com
Garson conceived the album with Lynn and Joel Rapp, who ran Mother Earth Plant Boutique on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Joel had been a writer for My Favorite Martian, but had burned out on the TV industry. So he switched from little green men to little green plants, and the Rapps’ store, as well as their series of best-selling books, helped popularize the houseplant trend that lasted throughout the 1970s and has become commonplace today.
- London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1 deathisnot.bandcamp.com
The first volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts & idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 & 1993.
Via Thom Yorke's Guest Mix.
- jprichardson/node-fs-extra github.com
Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()
- Contractor sector considers IR35 technical detail of Budget 2021 contractoruk.com
Parties in the contractual chain will need to inform their clients if a worker has a ‘material interest’ in the intermediary they work via, under new off-payroll rule duties from April 6th.
- SpatialChat spatial.chat
Video chat conversations that recreate real-life social interactions
Clearly that could be a good thing or a bad thing.
- Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Conversation doesn't paint Okta in a particularly great light, but lots of alternatives to be found in conversation.
- Using your powers across borders | Brodies LLP brodies.com
If you are living in England and Wales or, have significant interests there, it would be sensible to sign an English power of attorney as well as a Scottish one. This will make matters administratively a lot easier in the event the document is needed at some point in the future.
- Contractors, having your hands contractually tied as IR35 reform looms? Then check those ties contractoruk.com
is there a contractual penalty risk of accepting a permanent role with the end-client, or engaging with the client as a small consultancy delivering your services under a Statement of Work (SOW), if you are currently working as an agency contractor via a PSC?
- Soulver 3 - Notepad Calculator App for Mac soulver.app
Numi alternative. Can't assign subtotals to variables :(
Numi alternative. Looks abandoned.
- MonolithFirst martinfowler.com
you shouldn't start a new project with microservices, even if you're sure your application will be big enough to make it worthwhile.
Where it becomes very convenient for user interfaces, and we'll take the example of React here, is that instead of maintaining additional fields in your state to display or not an error (which will likely be desynchronized by mistake, since there's a human responsibility to maintain it), you can store a result value in your component state, and explode it directly in the render function to derive what you need to display.
- theseal/macos-blank-screensaver github.com
Blank (black) screensaver for MacOS
- Pika superhighfives.com
An open-source colour picker app for macOS.
Via monospaced.
- Peace Lily Not Blooming: Reasons A Peace Lily Never Flowers gardeningknowhow.com
- My sci-fi novel recommendations - Noahpinion noahpinion.substack.com
- Application State Management with React kentcdodds.com
- Diátaxis Framework diataxis.fr
The Diátaxis framework aims to solve the problem of structure in technical documentation. It adopts a systematic approach to understanding the needs of documentation users in their cycle of interaction with a product.
This approach is not hacky at all.