Morphosis: Goliath, David, Adam
A biblical short story from Adam Roberts.
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AccentDesign/Fractal-Atomic: An awesome starter point for your Fractal UI component library
If you want to use Brad’s Atomic Design naming convention—atoms, molecules, etc.—and you like using Fractal for making your components, this starter kit is just for you:
Keep what you need, delete what you don’t and add whatever you like on top of whats already there.
What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in your backyard? | Outrider
Hot nuclear blasts in your area.
(like Eric’s HYDEsim)
Teletype for Atom
A plug-in that lets multiple people collaborate on the same document in Atom. Could be useful for hackdays and workshops.
Perch UI Pattern Library | Perch UI Pattern Library
A nice little pattern library from Rachel and Drew for the Perch admin interface. Within folders, they’re using Brad’s atomic design nomenclature, and the whole thing is managed with Fractal.
JSON Feed: Home
RSS isn’t dead, but it has metamorphosed into JSON.
I don’t know if syndication feeds have yet taken on their final form, but they’re the canonical example of 927ing.
Anyway, I’ve gone ahead and added some JSON feeds to adactio.com:
Making And Maintaining Atomic Design Systems With Pattern Lab 2 – Smashing Magazine
A walkthrough of what’s new in Pattern Lab 2. It’s really interesting to see the convergent evolution of ideas here with what’s brewing in Fractal at Clearleft.
ECSS
Enduring CSS (not int the sense of “put up with” but in the sense of “long-lasting”) is a new book by Ben Frain all about writing and maintaining modular reusable CSS.
You can read the whole thing for free online or buy an eBook.
Atomic Classification | Trent Walton
There is one truism that has been constant throughout my career on the web, and it’s this: naming things is hard.
Trent talks about the strategies out there for naming things. He makes specific mention of Atomic Design, which as Brad is always at pains to point out, is just one way of naming things: atoms, molecules, organisms, etc.
In some situations, having that pre-made vocabulary is perfect. In other situations, I’ve seen it cause all sorts of problems. It all depends on the project and the people.
Personally, I like the vocabulary to emerge from the domain knowledge of the people on the project. Building a newspaper website? Use journalism-related terms. Making a website about bicycles? Use bike-related terms.
Most importantly, make the naming process a collaborative exercise, as outlined by Alla and Charlotte.
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
A fascinating blog documenting the secrecy around nuclear weaponry, past and present, by Alex Wellerstein of the American Institue of Physics.
An Ear for Science: The Particle Physics Windchime | SLAC News Center
The story of the particle windchime—it turns subatomic particle collisions into sound—created at Science Hack Day San Francisco.
Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film - Audio & Photos - NYTimes.com
Monstrously beautiful images, accompanied by an eye-witness audio account.
The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real - Anil Dash
Anil Dash writes about the realtime web, calling it Pushbutton.
The Particle Zoo: Subatomic Particle Softies
Handmade subatomic particle plushies from the standard model of physics ...and beyond!
ANN: Blogger adds hAtom microformat - Blogger Data API | Google Groups
"All new blogs, and all blogs that use Layouts and have unmodified blog page element templates now have hAtom classes in them."
Ma.gnolia Blog: JSON, HTML, and Microformats. Oh, My!
Magnolia is providing microformat feeds: simple HTML documents marked up with xFolk, hReview or hAtom. It's basically a simple sort of API. Very nice.
Brown University
Interesting use of unobtrusive JavaScript for front page navigation. Bonus points are awarded for the hAtom and hCard markup.