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I was asked to do a little session on this the other day. I'd say I'm underqualified to answer the question, as is any single person. If you really needed hard…

Limited company contractors travelling on behalf of their clients by air face the twin challenges of navigating HMRC’s opaque expenses rules and IR35 tax…

I’ve read a lot of comparison articles about the two, but I don’t think they really do Figma justice. Some of them briefly mention the team features, the…

What We’ve Learned About 508 Compliance That All Technologists Can Use By Nick Heiner As government technology improves and accelerates, the U.S. Digital…

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Who owns England? Land ownership map Who Owns England? Who owns land is one of England's most closely-guarded secrets. This map is a first attempt to display…

Write Once, Render Anywhere by @peggyrayzis - ReactNYC

We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to…

In the past few years we’ve seen the rise of CSS-in-JS , emerging primarily from within the React community. This, of course, hasn’t been without its…

In 2013, Ian Duncan-Smith said "looking for work should be a full-time job" . This was to be policed through the 'claimant commitment' a document that would…

Unfortunately, I didn’t discover BluTrack until after I had already spent time, effort, and money collecting classic Hot Wheels orange track. Had I come across…

Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. And some spoilers. The goal was for the aggression to stay on the blacktop at Baltimore’s…

Presentation: Accessibility in a Responsive World, A11Y Days 2017 Posted by Scott on 05/16/2017 This April, I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to…

Overview The default JavaScript tracking snippet for Google Analytics runs when a web page is first loaded and sends a pageview hit to Google Analytics. If you…

The modern web design world is an innovative one. Table-based lists with offset pagination are rapidly falling out of favor, whereas Masonry layouts with…

Pinterest has inspired many to do a masonry-based layout on their sites. We have some solid JavaScript alternatives out there to create masonry layouts, but how…

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Hypernova A service for server-side rendering your JavaScript views Why? First and foremost, server-side rendering is a better user experience compared to just…

Rearchitecting Airbnb’s Frontend Overview: We recently rethought the architecture for the JavaScript side of our codebase at Airbnb. This post will look at (1)…

The :focus-within pseudo-class is a CSS Level 4 selector that has recently picked up a bit of steam with FireFox, Safari, and (at the time of writing this)…

The hanging-punctuation property aims at giving web designers a finer grained control over typography on the web. The idea behind hanging punctuation is to put…

API Blueprint. A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs. API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the APIlifecycle.…

“He was awarded a brass plaque by the Guinness Book to commemorate his abilities. He consumed it as well.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lo…

About this talk It's been a dream to support multiple platforms from one codebase, and to abstract their differences in UX to unify development. Taz has…

If you’ve used the internet at any point in the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard of Juicero. Juicero is a San Francisco-based company that sells a $400…

Visibility trends for Monster.com on Google US (top) and Monster.co.uk on Google UK (bottom) About two months ago, Monster changed quite a bit of their internal…

Brand Custom Branding With BluTrack Shop Amazon Store Save on shipping Free 3 Pack of BluTrack Racers With Product Purchase Over $40 ($10 Value) Teach Using…

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De Niro and Val Kilmer bringing the heat. Twentieth Century Fox Michael Mann’s 1995 masterpiece, Heat , comes out this week in a brand-new, fully loaded and…

With 35 years of game development behind him, Meier opens up about his inspirations, burnout and why his name is on the box J ohn Madden may be the only person…

Linear gradients are easy to create in CSS and are extremely useful. As we'll go through in this article, we can make them visually much smoother by creating…

Folio lets you create and share versions of your designs and automatically keep them in sync with your team Free trial Try all features for 15 days. Viewing is…

1. Just before Christmas 1953, the bosses of America’s leading tobacco companies met John Hill, the founder and chief executive of one of America’s leading…

“The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound…

Mobile First, Desktop Worst An op-ed from the front lines of product design at MetaLab . First, a disclaimer: the subject of this article is Mobile First in the…

Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next…

Benefits of a connected design system Over the past year, I’ve been working collaboratively to build a design system at Lost My Name. We’ve worked to define new…

Our taste for vanity metrics starts early. Take schools, in which most students receive grades. Does an “A” reflect the promise of a student’s future…

Most people have the perception that children above 3 years old wouldn't need any more carrying. In a perfect world, it would be ideally so and good for all…

Design Systems: when and how much? by Diana Published April 27, 2017 in Design Design systems are an investment. It takes time and resources to build and…

A brilliant early summer Saturday in 1967, as I recall. A knock on the front door. A kid who had been in the same class as me at Parr Lane primary school in…

Last week, we learned that science fiction author William Gibson changed his next novel , Agency , after the outcome of last November’s election. We caught up…

Sketching a Design System with React-SketchApp Playing with this amazing tool made by Airbnb T he design field is moving forward, and it’s moving really fast.…

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This is a comic about the backfire effect. , Inspiration This comic was inspired by this three-part series on the backfire effect from the You Are Not So Smart…

Discerning yet hilariously unprecious … Jonathan Meades.Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I t is an iron law of food literature that the people who think…

I don’t think its hyperbole to say that there’s a revolution happening in the design of digital products. Designers have long had the idea of designing…

Primitive React Interfaces Across Targets

Posted 28 April 2017 I love the font Just Another Hand , I use it a lot in diagrams during my talks: Here it is! Yay! The thing is, I don't like the positioning…