Takin’ five. — Ethan Marcotte
I linked to the first of Ethan’s short videos on accessibility last week, but it’s well worth checking out all five:
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Lightning-Fast Web Performance: an online lecture series from Scott Jehl
Scott is brilliant, therefore by the transitive property, his course on web performance must also be brilliant.
Redux: Lazy loading youtube embeds
Remy has an excellent improvement on that article I linked to yesterday on using srcdoc with iframes. Rather than using srcdoc instead of src, you can use srcdoc as well as src. That way you can support older browsers too!
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
This is a clever use of the srcdoc attribute on iframes.
“What does that funny squiggle mean?” Playlist - BBC Ideas
¶, &, @, ‽, ☺, #, and ☛.
Sessions by Pusher
Oodles and oodles of videos of talks from London developer meetups.
Open Access at ESA
Images, videos, sounds, and 3D models are now available from the European Space Agency under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license.
Astronaut
This is beautifully intimate. Your role is that of an anthropologist in orbit around Earth observing the everyday moments on the planet below through uploaded videos that have never been viewed by another human.
16 Web Conference Talks You Need to Watch This Holiday
Ignore the clickbaity title—you don’t need to do anything this holiday; that’s why it’s a holiday. But there are some great talks here.
The list is marred only by the presence of my talk Resilience, the inclusion of which spoils an otherwise …ah, who am I kidding? I’m really proud of that talk and I’m very happy to see it on this list.
Start Building Accessible Web Applications Today - Course by @marcysutton @eggheadio
A great series of short videos from Marcy on web accessibility.
Simon McManus - YouTube
Come for the videos of EnhanceConf. Stay for the skateboarding beagle.
Rhizome | Stories from the New Aesthetic
These three talks are worth your time.
Google can’t be trusted with our books | Simon Barron | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The threat to Google Videos shows businesses are not suitable cultural custodians — they can’t be held accountable to the public.
Cute Roulette: Cutest videos on the web
Kittens, puppies, and other baby animals on continuous rotation.
Extortr: online blackmail for the masses
What a great antisocial network: blackmail people with rich media. Upload photos or videos; demand a price from the victim; if they don't pay, the whole world sees the evidence.