Links
Collecting my favourite links from around the internet.
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Elise Blanchard wrote
WHY are links blue? WHO decided to make them blue? WHEN was this decision made, and HOW has this decision made such a lasting impact?
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Satochi Radio made
Dutch video series on Youtube from Bart Mol (Satochi Radio) about creating your own Full Bitcoin Node, Lightning Network and different types of hardware wallets.
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Amelia Wattenberger wrote
How can we “fingerprint” a codebase to see its structure at a glance? Instead of the typical folders & files view, we can create a visual representation of the code.
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Maggie Appleton wrote
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time
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Darice de Cuba wrote
The Podcast Transcript Experimentation
Their willingness to think outside the box and come up with accessible solutions is in stark contrast with companies/developers/content makers that see accessibility as a last-minute addition.
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Dyno Might wrote
While most things that clearly improve health are well known, one is insanely underrated: Fixing your air. I suspect this is often the most effective health intervention, period. Nothing else is so important while also being so easy to address.
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Varun Vachhar wrote
Randomness is just too unnatural. What we need is a smoother, more organic randomness.
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Julian Shapiro wrote
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well. And if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Nikita wrote
The font-smoothing settings in MacOS might explain why so many designers put font-weight: 300 as their default web page font. They are over-compensating for default font emboldement of macOS!
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Brian Lovin wrote
Good interviewers don't rescue their guests from an uncomfortable silence or a bad answer.
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Q42 made
Onderzoek naar de toegankelijkheid van Apps
Welke accessibility-instellingen gebruiken Nederlanders nou écht op hun telefoon?
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Floris Jansen made
Working towards a more inclusive design scene in The Netherlands
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Hidde de Vries wrote
How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy
There are also lots of trackers, and it is powered by a faceless multi-billion dollar enterprise that threatens the livelihood of friendly, local bookshops.
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Ivaylo Durmonski wrote
A good book doesn’t have to be easy to understand. A good book should make you stop and think about what is said inside. To confuse you and make you re-read the same passage again and again.
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Joshua Comeau wrote
Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream
A single shift of a few pixels won't make or break a site, but it adds up. This is death-by-a-thousand-papercuts territory; in aggregate, this stuff makes a huge difference.
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Heydon Pickering made
WEBBED BRIEFS are brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them.
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Ethan Marcotte
Design systems have gaps between standards and it's use. Focus on process and people, modular components aren't the goal of a design system.
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Stas Aki wrote
More and more text-based content is shared over the Internet, but not everything is thoroughly read.
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Dave Rupert wrote
So my little mashup, which was supposed to be just 3 technologies ended up exposing me to ~20 different technologies and had me digging into nth-level dependency source code after midnight.
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Anne-Laure wrote
The kind of recurring thought that never really leaves you: “It’s too late.” Too late to publish a book, too late to start a company, too late to learn a new language. This is called time anxiety.
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Tom MacWright wrote
It's always an "edge case" until someone's personal safety is threatened.
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Aral Balkan wrote
The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.
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Derek Sivers wrote
Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
So maybe what’s obvious to me is amazing to someone else?
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Michael Flarup wrote
The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design
What Apple is essentially saying here is that “judicious expressiveness” is allowed. A lifelike rendering style is encouraged.
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Dan Abramov wrote
Violations of DRY are typically referred to as WET solutions, which is commonly taken to stand for “write every time”, “write everything twice”, “we enjoy typing” or “waste everyone’s time”.
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Remy Sharp wrote
Your work is valuable and your time and experience is even more so.
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Kevin Kwok wrote
Building for everyone in the design process and not just designers is also the foundation of Figma’s core loop, which drives their growth and compounding scale
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The Key Company wrote
Today, most consumer keyboards and laptops use a “membrane” that uses a linked pressure pad to register keypresses, rather than individual switches.
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Max Böck wrote
Another possibility is to discover new content through human connections instead of algorithms. People we already know for their content recommend others in the same field, creating decentralized clusters of trusted information.
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Julia Evans wrote
Questions to help people decide what to learn
One thing I learned from this is that being told you don’t know something is a bad experience for a lot of people.
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Parimal Satyal wrote
What this means is that web users end up interacting and spending most of their time on the visible, predatory commercial web, while the very long tail of smaller, amateur websites remains hidden in the noise.
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Dan Shipper wrote
How to build a learning machine
Zettelkasten is German for “slip box” and is a method to manage knowledge. [...] and link them together so that you can start to find larger relationships between concepts you’re learning.
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Daniel Miessler wrote
It’s Time to Get Back Into RSS
RSS is clutter-free consumption, with fewer ads, no popups, etc
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Amber Wilson wrote
CSS expertise comes with time! While CSS is easy to start with and gives you immediate visual results, mastering it takes time.
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Jonas Parnow wrote
Non-expert tips for private email usage
Since your mail address might be the second-best identifier behind your phone number, you really want to consider some things to protect it.
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Saagar Jha wrote
Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
The $FAMOUS_COMPANY backend has historically been developed in $UNREMARKABLE_LANGUAGE and architected on top of $PRACTICAL_OPEN_SOURCE_FRAMEWORK.
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote
Are we too busy to enjoy life?
We are scared of idleness because stopping would mean having to really consider what we want out of life and what we currently have
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Tobias van Schneider wrote
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Minder maar Beter
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How Long Can Your Logo
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Sarah Drasner talk
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Tom Scott video
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Brian Lovin wrote
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Lindsay Oliver wrote
What You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis
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Daniel Zarick wrote
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Lara Schenck wrote
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Zell Liew wrote
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Rachel Andrew Wrote
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Marcin Wichary talk
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Brian Lovin wrote
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Manuel Matuzovic wrote
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Hey wrote
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Stephanie Stimac wrote
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Zoe Schiffer and Megan Farokhmanesh wrote
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eevee wrote
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Wendy Steffens wrote
Insights from usability testing with visually impaired users
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tjcx wrote
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Ben Thompson wrote
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Manuel Matuzovic wrote
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Michael Flarup talk
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Damien Newman wrote
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Dan Abramov wrote
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The Correspondent wrote
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Chris Coyier wrote
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Jason Fried wrote
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Julia Evans wrote
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Daniel Göransson wrote
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Adam Silver wrote
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CSS-Tricks wrote
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Mark Brown made
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Hoefler&Co wrote
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Marko Saric wrote
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Koen Bok wrote
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Luke Wroblewski Talk
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Napoleon Hill video's
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Craig Mod Wrote
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Zach Leatherman talk
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Daryl Koopersmith and Wilson Miner wrote
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Ethan Marcotte Talk
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Andy Bell Talk
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Scott Jenson wrote
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Stephen Hay wrote
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Chris Cid wrote
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Martin Tournoij wrote
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Tobias van Schneider wrote
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Tom Johnson wrote
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On Brilliant
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Craig Mod wrote
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote
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Nic Chan wrote
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TJCX wrote
Danny de Vries