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The Office Club facilitates hot desking for workers who cannot commit to being in the office all week. Just let us know when you need a desk and we’ll allocate one of our hot desks to you on a day-by-day basis.

A modern approach for crafting beautifully maintainable stylesheets. The csstyle method is implemented using a set of SASS mixins that make your CSS readable and semantic, generate your selectors for you, and automatically handle things like specificity and nesting.

TL;DR We are crushing the web. Dedicated client-side rendering sucks. Polyfills are used for all the wrong reasons. Those hideous-looking hash routers are bad and we should feel bad. We have been telling each other for years that progressive enhancement is great, and yet we're doing very little about it!

Good stuff on testing and also excellent section on Style Guides vs Component Libraries.

Keeping You Awake is a small menu bar utility for OS X Yosemite and above that can be activated to prevent your Mac from going into sleep.

Caffine alternative.

There is clearly a negative correlation between file-size and the amount of filesize you save by minifying and gzipping compared to just gzipping. As an HTML document gets bigger minifying makes less of an impact. This is consistent with the way gzip works, the further the tokens from each other the less efficient the compression is.

Ultimately it looks like gzip eats html documents for breakfast whether you minify or not. I would say this is a self-confirmation of my original gut feeling: I would not trade minified html for even one minute of lost productivity due to some subtle bug introduced in the build process.

Five rules for employing scrolling effectively.

Console for debugging web apps right on mobile device

I basically now have both the simplest and most sophisticated multi-language ebook production and distribution setup on the planet.

Beautiful, if you like this sort of thing.

A curated list of Web Performance Optimization.

Right now, the biggest family tree on the Internet – and one I happen to be part of — is mind-bogglingly huge. It’s got 79 million people in 160 countries. This tree has every U.S. president. It has everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow to Albert Einstein. The links are often lengthy and sometimes through marriage, but it’s fun to figure them out. (Abraham Lincoln is my aunt’s first cousin 8 times removed’s wife’s second great nephew!) And that’s when I decided to see if we could gather all these relatives together, at least the living ones.

pngout bin-wrapper that makes it seamlessly available as a local dependency

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We’ll explore how browsers handle CSS Animations and CSS Transitions, so you can develop intuition around whether an animation is likely to perform well.

Typography utils for javascript

A friendly wrapper for launchctl

Despite its irreverent name and precarious form, the lobotomized owl selector is no mere thought experiment for me. It is the result of ongoing experimentation into automating the layout of flow content. The owl selector is an “axiomatic” selector with a voracious purview.

Reinventing music theory for the modern electronic musician

Music theory learning resource (by Ukkonen, shh).

Via monospaced.

If you’ve got anything in /usr/local Your Yosemite upgrade may take many hours.

We add some metadata to exported SVG files, to make it easier to re-import them in Sketch. However, if you are sure you won't import them, you can disable the saving of metadata by running this into your Terminal.app: `defaults write com.bohemiancoding.sketch3 exportCompactSVG -bool yes`

More than 60 percent of the world’s population remains offline. Without removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little will change—and more than 4 billion people may be left behind.

An SVG webfont full of main payment system icons

English Exporting assets from your designs is a common task. You start by creating and preparing your graphics, then you choose the export format, set its…

Nnng.

So we need supermarkets. The problem is, we really don’t need the kind of supermarkets we’ve got. By giving too small a set of companies a free run at too much of the retail food economy, we have put at risk our future food security. We used to be well over 70% self-sufficient in food in the UK. Now it’s below 60%, and when you look at the proportion of food we consume that’s produced here, it’s 50%.

Via ttscoff.

A bookmarklet to create a front-end performance heatmap of resources loaded in the browser using the Resource Timing API.

Not that flexible, but better than fixed partials.

Also sneaky.

Via jamesholloway.