Moment Prisons, and How to Escape Them

The dangers of using metaphors in our professional lives.

Beyond automatic accessibility testing

6 things you can easily check on every website you build.

“Writing direct, easy to read emails that cut right to the chase is an undervalued skill. It’s just like designing a website or writing copy: Don’t make me think.”

Fork

A fast and easy to use Git client for Mac and Windows.

Goodbye, Flash

Google Search will stop supporting Flash later this year.

“Overrated: inspiration.
Underrated: discipline.

Overrated: talent.
Underrated: time.”

What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work

The mental health challenges of remote work.

Hellvetica.ttf

Like Helvetica, but with much shittier kerning for Halloween.

Users Prefer Tappable Stories On The Mobile Web

The power of full-screen visuals.

History of grids

From the printing press to modern web design.

Better Markdown in Visual Studio Code

How VS Code can become an excellent writing tool.

As the internet turns 50, we must protect it as a force for good

Let’s fight for the web we want.

Auditing For Accessibility Problems With Firefox Developer Tools

What’s available in the latest release.

Font Pairings

Try font pairings and see how they look in your project.

Political Advertising

Twitter decides to stop all political advertising on its platform.

JavaScript frameworks security report 2019

The state of security for the Angular and React ecosystems.

“At our school, we don’t call them ‘soft skills’ because they are quite hard. Instead, we call them ‘power skills’ and they’re the most important skills we teach our students.”

A Modern Front End Workflow

Part 1: Building a Project Starter with NPM Scripts.

E-Mail like a boss

Your words in your business e-mails matter.

Introducing Progressive Web Apps to Samsung Galaxy Store

How to add your web app to the Samsung Store.

Free Resources for Freelancers

A collection of templates and resources covering many topics.

Uncommon Use Cases For Pseudo Elements

Use cases that are not entirely known across developers.

The UX Writing Library

All you need to follow, read or join as a UX writer.

UX and SEO

A new perspective on winning at SEO.

Helping more people with wearables: Google to acquire Fitbit

What changes for Fitbit users.

Adobe Brings Fonts to iOS in Creative Cloud Mobile

All fonts within Creative Cloud can now be used on iOS 13.1.

Previewmojo

Auto generate social media preview images.

Things We Can’t (Yet) Do In CSS

Layout patterns we might be able to do in the future.

Dekks

Create, share and view ideas in a new and powerful way.

Quokka

A tool for rapid prototyping, learning, and testing JavaScript.

Remember QR Codes?

They’re more powerful than you think.

Microsoft unveils new Edge browser logo that no longer looks like Internet Explorer

The new icon is a wave surfing the web.

The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable

A new way to check citations from books and the web.

Copycat Content

SEO tools got us here, humans will get us out.

Get faster with the new Speed report in Search Console

A new way to understand how your site is performing.

Introducing the Design Circle

A new collective of leading voices in the design industry.

Getting your sites ready for the new Microsoft Edge

It’s compatible with popular automated testing frameworks.

Visual Studio Online

Cloud-powered development environments accessible from anywhere.

Introducing Our New Company Brand

The Facebook app will keep its own branding.

Adobe is developing Illustrator for iPad to be released in 2020

Vector graphics, simplified for the tablet.

Restricting Notification Permission Prompts in Firefox

No more prompts without user interactions.

A regular expression lookahead/lookbehind cheat sheet

The syntax for lookaheads and lookbehinds,

Announcing TypeScript 3.7

New language, compiler, and tooling features.

“Careers are very long. People may get lucky early, but it is amazing to observe how the passage of time eventually favors the persistent and focused.”

November 2019 Release of Adobe XD

Coediting, document history, component states, and more.

Adobe and Twitter are designing a system for permanently attaching artists’ names to pictures

It’s called the Content Authenticity Initiative.

52 UX Cards to Discover Cognitive Biases

How cognitive biases might influence people’s behaviour.

“Web developer drinking game: every time your code works, take a slurp of coffee.”

Preloading fonts: when does it make sense?

Pros and cons of different options.

Some Thoughts on Website Boundaries

Bing’s new penalty to address ‘inorganic site structure’ violations.

Installing Progressive Web Apps

Let’s deliver a more app store like install experience.

“Customers don’t churn. They leave.”

“As designers, our primary role is to overthink a design solution before simplifying it.”

No code is a lie

Here’s why coders should take a second look at ‘no code’.

The 2019 Web Almanac

HTTP Archive’s annual state of the web report.

Lighthouse CI

Run Lighthouse automatically on every commit.

What Half of iPhone Users Don’t Know About Their Privacy

New poll.

The Web Falls Apart

Why the basic web foundation does seem to be in trouble.

KPI overload

The golden age of metrics.

Cropping Images to a specific Aspect Ratio with JavaScript

Let’s build a tiny crop helper function.

babel/preset-modules

A Babel preset that targets modern browsers by fixing engine bugs.

Mobile Dark Patterns

Make sure you’re keeping your ethical obligations in mind.

HTMHell: Markup from hell

Bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Re-imagining developer productivity with AI-assisted tools

What’s new in Visual Studio IntelliCode.

A New Way to Earn Money on WordPress.com

WordPress introduces subscriptions with recurring payments.

Basecamp Personal

The free way to run Basecamp for personal projects.

The Best Productivity Apps for 2020

A list to build a complete productivity stack.

The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019: Results

What’s changed over the last 12 months.

GitHub for mobile

Bring GitHub collaboration tools to your small screens.

Google in 2020

From everyone’s search engine to everyone’s competitor.

“The longer I work in design, the more confident I become in my certainty that I know almost nothing.”

Private Equity company acquires .Org registry

ICANN removed all price controls on .org.

Minimap

A Sketch plugin to navigate large pages with ease.

Expect change in your design career. Choose growth.

How you can future-proof yourself.

Dynamic Typographic Systems, Modern CSS & Variable Fonts

Where we are and where we are going to.

Where should you track image search traffic?

Google makes it easy for marketers to make bad decisions.

Color & Contrast Picker

A tool to explore accessible color spaces.

Firefox’s fight for the future of the web

Mozilla is staking a comeback on its dedication to privacy.

Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS

What you can expect in the near future.

Diez

An open-source framework for creating design languages.

Curious Listening

6 ways to get the most out of UX interviews.

The Featured Snippets Cheat Sheet and Interactive Q&A

Everything you need to know.

SVG Favicons

Chrome now offers basic support for SVG favicons.

The Department of Useless Images

When a picture is a thousand words of crap.

Global Design Survey

Designer salaries, career trends, and what’s next.

No, Absolutely Not

Front-end development as an art of saying ‘no’.

‎Moodboard

An app to create photo collages with images and text.

Facebook and Microsoft Partnering on Remote Development

The social media giant embraces Visual Studio Code.

Framer: Web Beta

The popular interactive design tool is coming to the web.

Opening up the data behind your design systems

Figma introduces Design System Analytics.

Pika Registry

A JavaScript package registry for the modern web.

CrUX.RUN

A fast mirror of the Chrome User Experience report database.

Passwords Are a Design Problem

Password managers can help but huge gaps remain.

New reporting for Products Results in Search Console

Insights into the search performance for product rich results.

The future is bright, because the future is static

The power of JAMstack and the magic of SSGs.

Types of Content Hubs: 5 Approaches & 30+ Examples

How to handle topic clusters, content hubs, and pillar pages.

The Firefox UI is now built with Web Components

How Mozilla migrated the UI to modern web standards.

Loom

A new and playful way to create hand-drawn animation.

“You need to be able to say what your startup does in 2-4 words. No one has the time or attention span for an elevator pitch anymore.”

How Do You Remove Unused CSS From a Site?

Partial solutions to a difficult problem.