JavaScript is now part of the toolkit of most working developers.
What if network effects push it into being the first-ever truly dominant programming language?
The two main phases of sleep might work together to boost creative problem-solving.
To talk about taking criticism, we first have to talk about why we’re here.
We’re here because we design things.
Sometimes, we get so wrapped up in what we do, we forget we’re designing for people. We forget how what we make adds to an already crowded world.
"C, Shell, Ruby — quite a simple, monolithic stack.
We’re really not an overcomplex shop, we don’t intend to try and drop new languages for every small project."
Trust is the foundation for everything we do.
But what do we do when it's broken?
In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust
The next release of Gulp, a well-known building system, will see a lot of breaking changes. Here an overview of the most imporant ones, and the reasons behind them.
"The fastest way to measure everything on screen." they say. Well, I must admit it's very useful*, especially if you are a designer 🙂
* though, I must admit, is not cheap 🙂
This developer had some fun with Unicode characters in CSS and made several interesting background patterns with them.
Old film of New York City in the year 1911. Slowed down footage to a natural rate and added in sound for ambiance. Impressive!
This article looks at the unique strengths and design intent of Storybook and Styleguidist, two of the most used tools to build style guides for design systems.
Airbnb launched a new typeface called Airbnb Cereal across their product and brand. Here the case study with details of the technical process behind it. 🙌
A case study about how LEGO scaled Design Sprints throughout its organisation (which is kind of unbelievable considering that they are a company that produces physical products, not just digital ones).
BigInts are a new numeric primitive in JavaScript that can represent integers with arbitrary precision. This article walks through some use cases and explains the new functionality in Chrome 67 by comparing BigInts to Numbers in JS.
Revenue is a pretty boring metric until the data focuses on profits. Instagram follower numbers don’t matter if no one likes your posts. Visits to a website mean nothing until you can see correlation to higher conversions. So let’s stop playing the vanity metrics game and start using the collected data as a tool to our end goals.
How big can a star get? Why would a star only pretend to explode? Can you hide one star inside another?. Emily Levesque will answer this and many other questions in this mind-blowing public lecture.
How competing business goals lead to forgetting about people.
Fragments of the 2008 TC3, or Almahata Sitta, meteorite that fell to Earth in 2008. The diamonds discovered inside one of the fragment may have come from a protoplanet that orbited the sun billions of years ago.
During the years, I’ve been so inspired and touched by open-source software that I made it a personal obsession to always try opening everything by default […] .
Still, every now and then, I receive the usual question from someone: “Why is this open?”. My answer is always: “Why should it be closed?”.
Making a well-designed Android app can be quite a difficult task to accomplish.
Taking the time to step back and look at the bigger picture is even tougher –
how do you know you are doing a great job?
How can you make a difference in your team, whilst improving yourself? .
A loud sound emitted by a fire suppression system has destroyed the hard drives of a Swedish data center, downing Nasdaq operations across Northern Europe.
According to the Harvard Business Review, 41% of women working in tech eventually end up leaving the field (compared to just 17% of men), and I can understand why…
Every single aspect—no matter how seemingly minimal—is thoughtfully designed for a reason.
I’m in awe of all the work and thought that goes into a Beyoncé show.
She’s seriously operating on a level we’ve never seen artists perform at.
This is a math primer that is a little different.
It is written using technologies such as React and WebGL with animated explanations of fields like Linear Algebra and Geometry designed to help you develop a visual intuition for what is going on.
Many times I’ve seen event organisers, publishers, employers and various initiative leaders being genuinely surprised that the diversity outcome of their efforts was less than ideal.
“But our Call for Proposals was open” or “anyone can participate!” they tend to say. Unfortunately, these excuses are not good enough and let me tell you why.
In this article, I’ll explain what event listeners are, and how to add and remove them from a web page. I’ll show several examples and talk about patterns to avoid when dealing with event listeners.
The topic will be discussed in depth.
Why do we perceive background-color: #9B51E0 as purple?
This is one of those questions where I thought I’d known the answer for a long time, but as I inspected my understanding, I realized there were pretty significant gaps.
Chris Eppstein and the engineering team at LinkedIn have finally released as open source CSS Blocks and OptiCSS, two solutions that promise to breathe new power and ease-of-use into the CSS ecosystem. It's a big day for CSS devs 🎊
Via Varya Stepanova
When you're leaving a big company to interview at a startup, there are some hidden questions you might not know to ask. Here are 4 questions you should ask in a startup interview loop.
Much of what I’ve read recently about GDPR seems to have been written and designed with the sole aim of inducing panic and nausea in every developer it reaches…
Amazing footage from the archives of The Museum of Modern Art of the City of New York in the year 1911.
It starts on what appears to be the Staten Island Ferry, docks at Battery City, then goes on a street tour of several neighborhoods in Manhattan.
[…] researchers have figured out a way to embed encryption into typed blocks of text on paper.
Their secret weapon?
Helvetica and Times New Roman.
If you’re a fresh graduate with no experience in large-scale distributed systems, or even a seasoned engineer with years of experience under your belt, this article will be useful for you.
Via Claudia Romano
On the surface it looks quite simple. It’s something many websites have already. It has an image and some text and shows when you hover over a link. Hardly groundbreaking stuff … or so it may seem.
Researchers have figured out a way to embed encryption into typed blocks of text on paper. Their secret weapon? Helvetica and Times New Roman.
And behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape.
I worked at Mozilla for a long time. Over the last five years, we were constantly butting up against headcount limits, having more work than we had people to do it. 1,200 people is barely enough.
Many JavaScript developers know that ES modules have been controversial. But few actually understand how ES modules work. Let’s take a look, using cartoons, at what problem ES modules solve and how they are different from modules in other module systems.
Ian Feather's shares his take-aways on a new book, called Radical Candor, and how one can apply the principles and approaches illustrated in the book to the process of code review.
Every time you look at a computer interface, your brain is trying to fool you. No matter how hard you try to make things look aligned, the eye of the beholder will often disagree.
Everything you always wanted to know about implementing scrolling but were afraid to ask. We have scrolled to the bottom of modern web specifications to take you on a whirlwind tour of latest CSS and JavaScript features that make navigating around a single page smooth, beautiful and less resource-hungry.
A (long) transcript of a talk about JavaScript applications, seniority, routing and bundling, empathy, and much more.
How can we build complex symbols, distribute them and keep changes in sync with all of our users?
This has been the most impressive talk of the morning. How D3 and React can work together (without competing for the DOM) to create unbelievable data visualisations.
How to use State Machines in React to make your application's UI deterministic, predictable and automatically testable, managing the state of the components with Automata.
“I decided to collect some of the little nuggets of wisdom attributed to people. Found in conference talks which I then repeat in meetings to sound smart, the Eponymous Laws of Tech are sometimes humorous observations and sometimes based on real academic research.”
Designed to facilitate the needs of corporate paper-pushers everywhere.
Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level overviews. Iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking. Organically grow the disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
Meeting facilitation is a critical leadership skill that’s often overlooked. Excellent meeting facilitation means that the attendees know why they’re there, they get equal participation time, and your meeting’s goal or deliverable is achieved in a timely and productive way.
The cobra effect occurs when an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse, as a type of unintended consequence. The term is used to illustrate the causes of incorrect stimulation in economy and politics.