Preload, prefetch and other link tags: what they do and when to use them · PerfPerfPerf
Following on from Harry’s slides, here’s another round-up of thoserel attribute values that begin with pre.
Link archive: April 24th, 2019
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints - Speaker Deck
Slides from Harry’s deep dive into rel values: preconnect, prefetch, and preload.
Untold History of AI - IEEE Spectrum
A terrific six-part series of short articles looking at the people behind the history of Artificial Intelligence, from Babbage to Turing to JCR Licklider.
- When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk
- Invisible Women Programmed America’s First Electronic Computer
- Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes
- The DARPA Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence
- Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
- How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine
The history of AI is often told as the story of machines getting smarter over time. What’s lost is the human element in the narrative, how intelligent machines are designed, trained, and powered by human minds and bodies.
Who Are Design Systems For? | CSS-Tricks
Chris ponders the motivations behind companies sharing their design systems publicly. Personally, I’ve always seen it as a nice way of sharing work and saying “here’s what worked for us” without necessarily saying that anyone else should use the same system.
That said, I think Chris makes a good poin here:
My parting advice is actually to the makers of public design systems: clearly identify who this design system is for and what they are able to do with it.
Interview with Kyle Simpson (O’Reilly Fluent Conference 2016) - YouTube
I missed this when it was first posted three years ago, but now I think I’ll be revisiting this 12 minute interview every few months.
Everything that Kyle says here is spot on, nuanced, and thoughtful. He talks about abstraction, maintainability, learning, and complexity.
I want a transcript of the whole thing.
Front-end Developer Handbook 2019 - Learn the entire JavaScript, CSS and HTML development practice!
The 2019 edition of Cody Lindley’s book is a good jumping-off point with lots of links to handy resources.
Earth day at Clearleft
Isn’t this just lovely?
Cassie made a visualisation of the power we’re getting from the solar panels we installed on the roof of the Clearleft building.
I highly recommend reading her blog post about the process too. She does such a great job of explaining how she made API calls, created SVGs, and calculated animations.
Home Page — Doug Block
There’s a new reissue of the twenty year old documentary on Justin Hall’s links.net and the early days of the web.