Archive: April 7th, 2015

15 Years of Dao · An A List Apart Blog Post

On the fifteenth anniversary of A Dao Of Web Design people who make websites share their thoughts.

Paul Ford’s is a zinger:

I don’t know if the issues raised in “A Dao of Web Design” can ever be resolved, which is why the article seems so prescient. After all, the Tao Te Ching is 2500 years old and we’re still working out what it all means. What I do believe is that the web will remain the fastest path to experimenting with culture for people of any stripe. It will still be here, alive and kicking and deployed across billions of computing machines, in 2030, and people will still be using it to do weird, wholly unexpected things.

John Resig - Annotated Version of the Original jQuery Release

This is a fascinating bit of web archeology: John has annotated the code from one of the earliest versions of jQuery.

Pausing “Better Call Saul” to go outside and watch a space station cross the sky.

The neighbour’s new motion-sensor light is troublesome.

Had a blast recording a podcast episode with @BradFrost and @AnnaDebenham.

https://twitter.com/anna_debenham/status/585511138386976769

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A Dao of Web Design by John Allsopp is a document that stands outside of time. It was a perfectly crafted message for its own era, and amazingly it’s even more relevant now, a full fathom fifteen years later.

We once took on the tropes of print design and tried to apply them to the web. I fear that today we run the risk of treating web development no different to other kinds of software development, ignoring the strengths of the web that John highlighted for us. Flexibility, ubiquity, and uncertainty: don’t fight them as bugs; embrace them as features.

Hanging out with @Boxman on a London rooftop.