Royal Icing — Patrick George Wyndham Smith

The tenacity of open Ben Thompson is a writer who focuses on the strategy of technology businesses, and I’ve really enjoyed his stuff for a number of years.

Jeremy Keith on Architects, gardeners, and design systems Jeremy Keith: It’s rare to find job titles like software gardener, or information librarian (even though they would be just as valid as other terms we’ve made up like software engineer or informati…

A well-written look at why the iPad is harder to use than an iPhone or Mac John Gruber writes why the iPad’s multitasking UI mental model can be extremely confusing.

People quickly accomplishing ambitious things together Patrick Collison of Stripe has started putting together a list of ‘examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together.’

Don’t make your developer experience improvement a tax the user pays Sometimes it feels like we decide the developer experience is more front of mind than the user experience.

Lessons as a Developer from Web Directions Product In the beginning of August 2019 I attended the Product focused Web Directions conference with Myles, another Cogent engineer.

Linked: I assure you, medieval people bathed by Dr Eleanor Janega Medieval people also regularly washed both their hands and faces both before and after meals when in between baths because – stay with me here – they knew that first and grime could be haza…

Linked: Fast Software, the Best Software by Craig Mod Speed and reliability are often intuited hand-in-hand.

Replace colors dynamically in an SVG sourced from GitHub Worked today on an idea I’ve had floating around — using Cloudflare Workers to load an SVG from GitHub, then do some fill colour changing which means you can avoid manually adding it to your project…

Mazda removes touchscreens from its cars “Doing our research, when a driver would reach towards a touch-screen interface in any vehicle, they would unintentionally apply torque to the steering wheel, and the vehicle would drift out of its lane position,”…

Low Overhead React “React.

Linked: The case of partial hydration (with Next and Preact) Lukas Bombach has written an article on partially hydrating server-rendered HTML so that less client code is needed.

Typed Subatomic Styling: Part 2 — Comparison to Styled-Components CSS-in-JS is a popular approach to styling components within React apps.

Programming language ⚡️ energy efficiency compared A team of Portuguese researchers have compared 27 programming languages by their energy use.

Handy SPA config for Netlify Although Netlify out of the box won’t work with single page apps’ routing, it is easy to add.

Typed Subatomic Styling: Part 1 — Benefits of TypeScript and CSS The benefits of components have been realized with systems such as React and VueJS.

Categorizing the elements of the modern web In the world of the web, what is a web app and what is a website is now often blended.

Bartosz Ciechanowski on Color Spaces If you wanted to know more about RGB, sRGB, XYZ, and light, check this amazing interactive article out: https://ciechanow.ski/color-spaces/

The difference between CSS Grid and Flexbox Chris Coyier: For y'all that have an understand of both CSS grid and flexbox, what's your favorite way of explaining the difference?

Smart Reducers with React & Hooks Hooks are on their way soon to React, which offer ways to manage component state and lifecycles in function components.

Why I hate WordPress but used it anyway for this blog It gets me writing, And not wrangling with code.

Handy Makefile Rules and Patterns Patterns Required variable $(or $(build),$(error Must set build variable)) Optional variable with fallback $(or $(branch),master) Git Rebase on origin’s master rebase_origin_master: git pull --rebase origin master Cre…

The CSS Spectrum from Semantic Components to Pragmatic Utilities A decade or two ago, we usually wrote HTML by hand, whether in templates or as entire pages.

What I plan to learn in 2019 Another year, another set of new shiny technologies to entice you!

Understanding state State is what is known by your app.

Siri, the Platform: Services and Siri Threads Siri can become a platform.