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Please ignore the hyperbolic linkbaity title designed to stress you out and make you feel inadequate. This is a handy listing of links to lots of JavaScript resources, grouped by topic …some of which you could know.
Another directory of progressive web apps, this time maintained by Google.
I quite like the way it links through to a Lighthouse report. Here’s the listing for The Session, for example, and here’s the corresponding Lighthouse report.
Even using a strict cookie policy won’t help when Facebook and Google are using TLS to fingerprint users. Time to get more paranoid:
HTTPS session identifiers can be disabled in Mozilla products manually by setting ‘security.ssl.disablesessionidentifiers’ in about:config.
Like banging your head against a proprietary brick wall.
To me this is all just another example of a company operating a closed process, not willing to collaborate openly as peers. The Ivory Tower development methodology.
For once, Betteridge’s law of headlines is refuted.
This is a fascinating insight into the heady days of 2005 when Yahoo was the cool company snapping up all the best products like Flickr, Upcoming, and Del.icio.us. It all goes downhill from there.
There’s no mention of the surprising coda.
This is the trick that Charlotte used to get the nifty blobby effect on last year’s UX London site. Now there’s a tool to help you do the same.
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I recently asked a friend who happens to be blind if he’d share some sites that were built really well—sites that were beautifully accessible. You know what he said? “I don’t use the web. Everything is broken.”
Everything is broken. And it’s broken because we broke it.
But we can do better.
Ooh, this is an exciting collaboration! Jon and Brian have teamed up to form a lovely little cooperative.
…and all the fond nothings of daily life should clothe themselves in elemental sparks and shoot with fiery speed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, from hemisphere to hemisphere…
— A Thread Across The Ocean
Lunchtime reading on the seafront. 📚 🐟🥪
Checked in at The Bugle Inn
Colour contrast testing on iOS:
Settings: General: Accessibility: Display Accommodations: Colour Filters: On: Greyscale
Toggle it with 3 clicks of the home button:
Settings: General: Accessibility: Accessibililty Shortcut: Colour Filters
Some sensible answers to this question here…
…of which, exactly zero mention end users.
Checked in at British Airways Lounge. Heading home.
Listening to @baratunde talk about toast.
Checked in at Miller’s Downtown. A nightcap with Matthew O’Donnell on accordion.
Playing tunes at a session in Charlottesville.
Great ideas from Addy on where to start with creating a performance budget that can act as a red line you don’t want to cross.
If it’s worth getting fast, it’s worth staying fast.
Checked in at Mudhouse. Caffeinating