Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Predicted the World We Live In - The New York Times
A profile of the life and work of the brilliant Octavia E. Butler.
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Concise Media Queries with CSS Grid
‘Sfunny, this exact use-case (styling a profile component) came up on a project recently and I figured that CSS grid would be the right tool for the job.
The SHE Is Series | SHE Is Ire Aderinokun
I started writing for myself. The writing was helpful for me and luckily it was helpful for other people as well. But even if you’re the only one that reads your blog it is still helpful as a way to learn.
The Man Who Invented The Web - TIME
This seventeen year old profile of Tim Berners-Lee is fascinating to read from today’s perspective.
New Privacy Rules Could Make This Woman One of Tech’s Most Important Regulators - The New York Times
It’s kind of surreal to see a profile in the New York Times of my sister-in-law. Then again, she is Ireland’s data protection commissioner, and what with Facebook, Twitter, and Google all being based in Ireland, and with GDPR looming, her work is more important than ever.
By the way, this article has 26 tracking scripts. I don’t recall providing consent for any of them.
The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile | The New Yorker
A profile of Susan Kare, icon designer extraordinaire.
I loved the puzzle-like nature of working in sixteen-by-sixteen and thirty-two-by-thirty-two pixel icon grids, and the marriage of craft and metaphor.
Inside Design: Clearleft
A profile of Clearleft from the nice people at InVision.
Although there is this:
@adactio looks like you are trying really hard to not crack up laughing & shoot coffee out of your nose in this posed photo. /cc @andybudd pic.twitter.com/WQbRmqqpY8
— Nick Finck (@nickf) November 7, 2017
Meet Jon Postel, the Man Who Invented dot com :: How We Get To Next
A profile of a legend.
Kev aka Lomokev- Brighton street photographer: YouTube
A nice little profile of local Brighton photographer extraordinaire, Lomokev.
Design Firm Seeks to Humanize Technology - NYTimes.com
Those lovely BERG chaps profiled in the New York Times.
PixelApnea
Andy answers some questions about Clearleft's way of working.
Twitter / David Recordon: I gotz me some hCard and XFN
Livejournal profile pages get some microformats lovin', That's a lot of hCards.
Apple - Pro - Profiles - Joshua Davis
A profile on Apple.com of Flash designer par excellénce, Josh Davis.
Microformats - Audioscrobbler
More about the microformats that can now be found on Last.fm.