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New VAT flat rate scheme rate for certain businesses - FreeAgent Home Tour Pricing Support Log in to your account Blog Log in For accountants Tour Pricing…

Once in a while—not quite often enough to be a crisis, but just often enough to be a trope—people in the United States will freak out because a huge number of…

Inclusive Design at Microsoft It’s in our mission statement: empower every person on the planet to achieve more. Designing for inclusivity opens up our…

How it works Discover Blog Login A new form of association, transparent by design Open your finances to your community What is an open collective? A group of…

Here’s a little parable. A friend of mine was so enamored of Google Reader that he built a clone when it died. It was just like the original, except that you…

Anyone Can Be a Content Strategist and other lies you’ll find on LinkedIn Lying Cat from Saga I got a message from a friend recently asking for help finding…

css-razor is a fast way to remove unused selectors from css. Essentially, it accomplishes the same goal as uncss . However, it accomplishes this goal…

Unlike any other video game … Persona 5.Photograph: Atlus L ike Scooby-Doo, the Famous Five and Harry Potter, the Persona series of Japanese role-playing games…

With UberEATS , our aim is to make ordering food from your favorite restaurants as seamless as requesting a ride with uberX or uberPOOL. Like launching any new…

Google’s astonishing success in its first decade now seems to have been almost inevitable. But step inside its systems infrastructure group, and you quickly…

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.

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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…