This diagram listing varying degrees of ability in different situations, from Inclusive Design at Microsoft, is handy if you ever need to explain the need for accessibility and usability.
March 2017
March 30, 2017
- Frameworks without the framework: why didn’t we think of this sooner? Svelte is a Javascript framework (of sorts) that compiles vanilla JS into standalone modules. The principle idea being that you shouldn’t need to ship the framework over the wire (wasteful) and that static analysis can make the code itself much faster for the browser to execute. #
March 29, 2017
- The Guardian: The Internet Warriors. Who are the people that get so angry online? A fascinating documentary interviewing the internet warriors, in their own homes. #
- Wired: Inside the hunt for Russia’s most notorious hacker. #
March 28, 2017
March 23, 2017
- Study shows that gender quotas improve meritocracy. AKA the crisis of the mediocre man. #
March 21, 2017
- Väärinymmärretyn Päällikön päiväkirja — Olli Jokinen ei suostunut olemaan harmaata massaa. Enpä olisi uskonut, että olisin lukenut näin kovalla innolla Jokisen pelillistä elämänkertaa. #
March 15, 2017
- George Monbiot: Big data’s power is terrifying. That could be good news for democracy. From the Cambridge Analytica stories to China’s “citizen score”, from dark money networks (fake think tanks) to astroturfing and botswarming. #
March 14, 2017
- Can’t wait until the documentary Graphic Means is out! #
March 10, 2017
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The tools you use matter, even your CMS. Good tools are a joy to use, bad tools don’t protect you from your mistakes. A good example of this is Washington Post’s trouble adopting a new CMS.
“The redesigned website is just the surface manifestation of a huge organ transplant,” Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton said, pointing out it took more than a year to complete. The most important remark was his description of how difficult the change had been. “Every newsroom employee is struggling with it, not just the tech people.”
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March 4, 2017
March 3, 2017
March 2, 2017
- “Who do you think benefits from you not speaking up? No one.” An interesting way of thinking about low confidence and the tendency for perfectionism: not sharing you (imperfect) ideas is selfish — you’re not allowing others to build on them. #
- Mike Cohn: An agenda for the sprint review. #
- MIT Technology Review: The trillion Internet observations showing how global sleep patterns are changing. What else can we tell from all this data? #
- The pairing test for naming things. Via @lukaszsagol. #
- Things to figure out as a new manager: your schedule. #
March 1, 2017
- An anacronym is an acronym that people have forgotten is one. That is, the words making it up are “lost”. Examples might include scuba, laser and radar. #
