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These are mostly just mean …but kinda funny.
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datalist experiment
This is wonderful stuff! I’m a big fan of the datalist element but I hadn’t realised how it could be combined with input types like range and date.
So nifty!
They Keep Using That Word ∙ An A List Apart Column
David gets physidigital.
A List Apart Issue № 371
This issue of A List Apart is a great double-whammy. Lara Swanson has a ton of practical tips for front-end performance enhancements, and Brian dives deep into making your own icon fonts.
30 Great Reads from 2012 - Readlists
Some of the past year’s best long-form non-fiction, gathered together into a handy readlist for your portable epub pleasure.
A Whole Lotta Nothing: Listening to podcasts piecemeal: huffduffer
This makes me so happy! Matt is using Huffduffer. Specifically, Matt is using Huffduffer together with Instacast and this is how he’s doing it.
The Subcompact Publishing Reader - Readlists
A nice Readlist based on that excellent article by Craig on digital publishing:
This reader is made up of Craigmod’s essay “Subcompact Publishing” and essays linked to in the footnotes.
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Comping: Obtaining Signoff with Mockups
A peak behind the scenes at the responsive design and development workflow at Bearded. It makes a lot of sense.
A List Apart: Articles: Mo’ Pixels Mo’ Problems
The kickass articles just keep on comin’. This one from Dave is a great overview of options for dealing with images in responsive designs.
A List Apart: Articles: The Web Aesthetic
A really great article from Paul that simultaneously takes a high-level view of the web while also focusing on the details. A lot of work went into this.
Community Device Labs - Google Groups
Jason has set up a mailing list for open device labs. If you are running one, or thinking of setting one up, you should sign up to share ideas and knowledge.
A List Apart: Articles: Testing Websites in Game Console Browsers
An excellent in-depth article from Anna on the many gaming devices out there that have both an internet connection and a web browser.
A List Apart: Articles: Everything in its Right Pace
A great article by Hannah, focusing on the Long Web—it isn’t about the quantity of data you’re publishing; it’s the quality. This builds nicely on the article I linked to recently about digital scarcity.
The Internet of Things - Readlists
Those articles about the “Internet of Things” I linked to? Here they are in handy Readlist form.
A List Apart: Articles: ALA Summer Reading Issue
How about this for a trip down memory lane—a compendium of articles from over a decade of A List Apart, also available as a Readlist epub. It’s quite amazing just how good this free resource is.
The only thing to fault is that, due to some kind of clerical error, one of my articles has somehow found its way onto this list.
If this were Twitter, you’d be at-replying me with the hashtag “humblebrag”, wouldn’t you?
Readlists
This looks like a really handy service from Readability: gather together a number of related articles from ‘round the web and then you can export them to a reading device of your choice. It’s like Huffduffer for text.
A List Apart: Articles: Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video
This really is a ridiculously smart way of keeping third-party videos scalable in responsive layouts. I’ve just implemented it on this year’s dConstruct site.
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
A terrific article from Wilto detailing the thinking that went into the Boston Globe’s responsive image techniques and how browser pre-caching is now throwing a spanner in the works.
The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In The Comments Sections Of Year-End Lists : Monkey See : NPR
It’s funny because it’s true.
A List Apart: Articles: Say No to SOPA
A superb piece of writing from Jeffrey, scorching the screen with righteous anger. THIS. IS. IMPORTANT!
SOPA approaches the piracy problem with a broad brush, lights that brush on fire, and soaks the whole internet in gasoline.
Ethan Marcotte’s 20 favourite responsive sites | Feature | .net magazine
Ethan compiles a list for .net magazine of twenty of his favourite responsive designs.
Which Fish
A handy mobile-friendly list from Mike Stenhouse of which fish are currently having their stocks depleted. It uses offline storage so once you’ve visited once, you’ll be able to pull it up anywhere.
A List Apart: Articles: Orbital Content
A great piece about the changing nature of content ownership and distribution. And now I share it with you, validating its central premise.
Job at Bandcamp | Bandcamp
I like this way of whittling down potential candidates for the job: “To apply, check the HTTP headers.”
What Was I Listening To? - Andy Smith
A cute little mashup: find out what you were listening to according to Last.fm when you were posting to Twitter.
A List Apart: Articles: Prefix or Posthack
An excellent argument in favour of vendor prefixes in CSS, from Eric.
Wishlist » User Testing with Silverback
A nice little case study in using Silverback.
Cooper Journal: A bit of structure for craigslist posting?
An interesting proposal for a Huffduffer-style mad-libs ad-posting form for Craigslist.
teafr - tea rotas from twitter lists
Organise tea-making duties in the office with Twitter lists. This could be very handy...
shopping losts
Taking shopping lists and setting them in a more typographically pleasing way.
Missed Connections
"Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down."
SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers
A really nice stylesheet for sitemaps represented as nested unordered lists in HTML.
Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something
There goes your day.
A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
This article is an oldie but a goodie. I find myself referring to it all the time: "Beating typographic correctness out of (X)HTML: more than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography."
Planet BNM
The homepage of the local Brighton New Media mailing list has had a facelift. It's now a very nifty aggregator of Brighton geek content.
Social Network Portability | Google Groups
A mailing list to discuss portable social networks.
A List Apart: Articles: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
I love this article by Amber Simmons. The truth shines through.
Flickr: Photos from I Saw You: Missed Connection Comics
An ongoing comic on Flickr where the subject matter comes from the "missed connections" posts on Craigslist.
A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping
A great hands-on article on the benefits of playing with paper.
Monkey Bites
A brilliant list of New Year's Resolutions for Coders.
About Last.fm – Careers - Last.fm
Last.fm are looking for a designer. Want to be part of an exciting Web 2.0 startup without moving to the valley? Now's your chance.
vanillart » A List Apart » Séparation Comportementale
A French translation of my most recent article for A List Apart.
How To Be A Successful Evil Overlord
47. If I learn that a callow youth has begun a quest to destroy me, I will slay him while he is still a callow youth instead of waiting for him to mature.
"G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide"
Danah Boyd's talk at ETech 2006.
Hey Crackhead
An open letter on Craigslist from a motorbike-riding engineer to the crackheads who keep stealing his bike's sparkplugs to use as crackpipes.
Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition
The book that changed how websites are designed is back in a smart new second edition.