★ Apple / Privacy / Encryption
The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.
This moment calls for public discussion, and we want our customers and people around the country to understand what is at stake.[…]
Strong words by Tim Cook!
From Pages to Patterns: An Exercise for Everyone
This isn’t just for developers and designers—anybody who has a decision to make in the creation of the pattern library should join in. The goal is to get everyone thinking about patterns at a granular level, removing any context around each component. It also encourages a shared vocabulary.
Safari 9.0 Viewport Changes
Viewport meta tags using „width = content-width“ cause the page to scale down to fit content that overflows the viewport bounds. You can override this behavior by adding „shrink-to-fit = no“ to your meta tag as shown below. The added value will prevent the page from scaling to fit the viewport
<meta name = "viewport" content = "width = content-width, initial-scale = 1.0, shrink-to-fit = no“>
End of support is coming for older versions of Internet Explorer
Beginning January 12, 2016, only the current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical support and security updates. Microsoft recommends that customers running older versions of Internet Explorer upgrade to the most recent version, which is Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.
✭ Death to Bullshit
We’re bombarded by more information than ever before. With the rise of all this information comes a rise of the amount of bullshit we’re exposed to. Death to Bullshit is a rallying cry to rid the world of bullshit and demand experiences that respect people and their time.
✭ Design Machines – How to survive the digital apocalypse.
Deckset – Turn your notes into beautiful presentations
Great-looking slides from simple Markdown files. Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations.
Link found in one of my favourite newsletters: The Modern Desk
Beispiele für Coding Guidelines
Hier ist die Liste sicherlich besser aufgehoben, als in meinen Bookmarks: Beispielen für Inhalte von Coding Guidelines (ohne bestimmte Reihenfolge).
- Google HTML/CSS Style Guide
- GitHub Code Guidelines
- Code Guide by @mdo (english) | deutsche Version
- ZEIT ONLINE CSS Coding Guidelines
- ZEIT ONLINE JS Coding Guidelines
- Principles of writing consistent, idiomatic CSS
- WordPress Coding Standards
- Naming conventions and best practices for CSS (NCSS)
- High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS by Harry Roberts
- Sass Guidelines – An opinionated styleguide for writing sane, maintainable and scalable Sass. (engl.) | deutsche Version
- Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide