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Nice case study about designing the Wall Street Journal’s homepage in HTML and CSS instead of first creating static comps. In two of my bigger projects at The Wall Street Journal, writing code has led to new ideas. Problems that […]

The folks at @CNET interviewed me for a piece they did for Google Chrome’s 10 year anniversary. I’m quoted talking about the dangers of a browser monoculture, but also praising Chrome for speeding up the time it takes browsers to […]

React, at its core, follows Atomic Design inherently by encouraging developers to keep components as simple and as broken down as possible. From this simplicity, we can create more complex components and containers of components to create the user interfaces […]

With half of all search queries predicted to be spoken by 2020, here’s more detail on the work we’ve been doing to meet the emerging needs of voice assistant users and make government more accessible. Source: Hey GOV.UK, what are […]

As a general rule, nobody at Basecamp really knows where anyone else is at any given moment. Are they working? Dunno. Are they taking a break? Dunno. Are they at lunch? Dunno. Are they picking up their kid from school? […]

As always, here’s a great talk by Jeremy. I’ve been meaning to add a lot of indie web features to my site, and his talk might just be the kick in the butt to make that happen.

Fascinating read about how air conditioning shaped much of society. Source: An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created the modern city

This looks like a handy performance checklist for a web project.

Inspect Element on steroids: study how things are made on the web in real-time and copy computed styles with no hassle (neither longhand styles) This was an easy buy.

The obvious place designers go when trying to calculate the bottom line is to ask the question, If I change the design, how much more income could we generate? But there’s another way design can help: reducing the costs. A much-overlooked portion of […]

Love how Heydon flips this all on its head.

Here’s a fascinating read about the history of the drinking straw. It’s very much a story of American consumerism.

Itty bitty sites are contained entirely within their own link.

I knew I was opening pandora’s box, but I asked for diet advice on Twitter. I knew people tend to get a bit religious about dieting and are colored by their own experiences. That said, it’s a very difficult terrain […]

Here’s Dan with some smart words about the importance of baking the organization’s specific points of view, principles, and ingredients into their design system. In our work together, we’ve often used “better than Bootstrap” as a rallying cry. Dan explains: […]

Here’s a good rant about the concept of full-stack developers. I tend to agree. In my experience, “full-stack developers” always translates to “programmers who can do frontend code because they have to and it’s ‘easy’.” Although I think the concept of […]

All the best things about Visual Studio Code that nobody ever bothered to tell you There’s some good stuff in here that I’ll be trying out. I switched to VSCode a while ago and it’s been quite enjoyable.

This post lays out a lot of the first steps of creating a design system in short order. I enjoy how the author reflected on some of the initial tool and process churn as the team found their bearings. This […]

Unfortunate name (confusion with Sketch seems inevitable), but this seems like a cool concept. I like the idea of a nimble “Markdown-like notation” that helps teams play out a lot of different scenarios and states without having to create a […]

This is a fantastic article by Keith J. Grant that breaks down CSS’s unique qualities that makes it powerful, but also perhaps a bit confusing to people coming at it from a programmatic background. It’s a great reminder as to […]