Saved Links
I've been using Pinboard (and del.icio.us before that) on and off to save my links ever since 2005, but I migrated to Raindrop.io this year. Here are the latest links I saved. You'll find all the others in my public collection.
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Perfecting the New York Street An achievable, replicable plan for a city that’s embracing public space as never before.
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I think if you were using Web Components before 2020 you were an early adopter and you probably have some scars to show for it. But in 2021, now that all modern browsers support Web Components, I think they’re worth investigating.
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When developing customizable components, one often wants to expose various parameters of the styling as custom properties, and form a sort of CSS API.
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The consensus among typographers is that we should avoid long line lengths when designing continuous texts. Also, line spacing should be greater with longer lines.
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Creating the perfect shadow
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Learn more on mobile screen readers and how to use one
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The most controversial Mac Safari changes shown at WWDC — compressing tabs and the URL location field into a single row at the top of each window.
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community.
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This design system documents the styles, components and templates available to use on your website.
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Imagine you visit a Web site and you want to browse it for some content. You want to buy something; or maybe book a flight somewhere. And as you move your cursor onto the page, it suddenly disappears.
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I put together a “cheat sheet that helps write interview and follow ups questions for user research and usability test protocols” Those are fragments of questions to should help you get started writing your own questions.
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Minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components
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If you want your images to be as sharp as possible, you need to target images at the user’s device pixels, rather than their CSS pixels.
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John Bryan Hicks (1932–2021) was an architect, photographer, railway enthusiast and most importantly my Dad. Bryan is a free, single-weight open type font, a faithful digital recreation of his distinctive handwriting.
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Everything important and useful to know about CSS Custom Properties. Like that they are often referred to as “CSS Variables” but that’s not their real name.
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TimeMachineEditor is a software for macOS that starts backups in Time Machine at particular times. You can choose an interval or create other types of scheduling.
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It’s possible to upload arbitrary data from non-internet-connected devices by sending Find My BLE broadcasts to nearby Apple devices that then upload the data for you
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A reset of sensible defaults by Andy Bell