In Praise of On Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith
I’m really touched—and honoured—that my book could have this effect.
It made me fall back in love with the web and with making things for the web.
Link archive: January 1st, 2017
Typography Wars: Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? - The Atlantic
Glenn Fleishman on the war of attrition between primes and quotation marks on the web.
Two Irish Girls Who Made It to New York - The New York Times
Maeve Higgins must’ve been back in Cobh (our hometown) at the same time this Christmas. Here she tells the story of Annie Moore, the first person to enter the doors at Ellis Island.
I stood on the darkening quay side in Cobh on Christmas Eve, and looked at a statue of Annie there. She seems small and capable, her hands lightly resting on her little brothers’ shoulders, gazing back at a country she would never see again. An Irish naval ship had returned to the harbor earlier that week from its mission off the Mediterranean coast, a mission that has rescued 15,000 people from the sea since May 2015, though 2016 was still the deadliest one for migrants crossing the Mediterranean since World War II.
Front-end Style Guides by Anna Debenham
Anna has just published a lovely new version of her excellent little book on pattern libraries. EPUB, MOBI, and PDF versions are yours for a mere $8.