Links
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Light, landscape, lives, Kate Kirkwood
Really lovely photos from the Lake District. Simple but gorgeous. (via The Online Photographer)
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suit/naming-conventions.md at master · suitcss/suit
Another CSS class naming convention. I think I like this better than BEM’s, but we’re now quibbling over tiny variations.
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MindBEMding – getting your head ’round BEM syntax – CSS Wizardry – CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts
Forgot to link to this when I read, so for completeness… I kind of like this but the ugliness of the double hyphens and underscores just “smells” bad to me (maybe wrongly?).
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Introducing AM - Attribute Modules for CSS - Glen Maddern: Internet Pro
More stuff about how to do CSS in another new way. I haven’t read this enough times to understand it.
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alphagov/prototyping
GDS’s Jekyll-based prototypes for services.
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Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we’re nearing collapse | Cathy Alexander and Graham Turner | Comment is free | theguardian.com
The “Business As Usual” scenario is looking accurate, 42 years on, although we haven’t yet seen if we reach the turning points, which will be the real (unpleasant) test. (via @agpublic)
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Extract Images and HTML from the Safari cache folder
Can expand old Mac IE WAFF web page archive files, among other things. (via @mildlydiverting)
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CSS Guidelines (2.1.3) – High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS
An extensive styleguide for writing CSS by Harry Roberts. (via @mattpointblank)
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The Online Photographer: Finally, I Get To Say THANK YOU
This brought happy tears to my eyes. A nice guy moving to a bigger house, with better office space, because he works hard on a good blog.
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Barbican - Wall & Floor Tiles | Fired Earth
A tile range named after the Barbican with styles named after local streets. Note: All Barbican flats must (officially) be carpeted.
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Barbican: A Unique Walled City Within The City | gail borthwick - Academia.edu (PDF)
A dissertation (no idea what for) about the Barbican. Some good history and old plans, photos, etc.
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Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good. — Medium
On creating Medium’s CSS style guide. Really good. I’d love to read more things like this. (via Tom Taylor)
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Jared Spool’s answer to What is the current market hourly rate (contract) for a great designer who can design (visual/ux/product) and develop award-winning user interfaces? - Quora
“…you’re looking for someone who is such an outlier in the industry that you’ll pay whatever rate they demand.” (via Stellar)
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The Real Harlem by Darryl Pinckney | The New York Review of Books
On the changing faces of Harlem over the decades. Gentrification etc, how it’s never a clear, simple phenomenon.
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A Passage from Hong Kong by Maya Jasanoff | The New York Review of Books
About shipping containers, the ships and a journey on one of the ships. A good read.
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Turkey Goes Out of Control by Christopher de Bellaigue | The New York Review of Books
I’ve vaguely followed news stories about Turkey but had somehow missed Gülen and his apparently vast, behind-the-scenes, apparently cult-like following.
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Dan Golding — The End of Gamers
This change in gaming seems long and slow and so I’m just picking out this one article to save as an almost arbitrary, but appropriately titled, marker for when gaming, and gamers, changed, (via @GreatDismal)
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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
In Cambridge, UK, horizon scanning for high impact, low probability events. (via the Guardian)
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Microaggression and Management — about work — Medium
Some of the common things managers might do that reinforce inequality and hierarchy. (Not that I’ve experienced much of this, thankfully.)
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Nextdoor | What is address verification?
Nextdoor, private online networks for (US) neighbourhoods sounds interesting. Here’s how they verify a new user’s address. I like the postcard method.
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Owen Hatherley reviews ‘Guide to the Architecture of London’ by Edward Jones and Christopher Woodward · LRB 21 August 2014
I’m not sure this makes me want to read the book under review, but the review itself is a good read if you’re into London and/or architecture.
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Tariff Notices - GOV.UK
An amazing list of very specific things that HMRC have had to classify for import and export purposes. “fireside companion set”, “article having a shape of a cylinder”, “stress balls, spectacles, goggles and the like”, etc.
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Git merge vs. rebase
Some things to try and remember next time I’m working on a thing with others. (via Infovore)
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Old Town Clothing - classic British workwear - Holt, Norfolk, England
Someone suggested to Put This On that this is wear Monty Don gets his clothes from.
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Monty Don: Dirty dressing | Life and style | The Observer
On the clothes he wears for gardening, from 2005. (via Put This On)
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Exquisite Tweets from @nraford
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by PowerPoints, starving hysterical for content…” Noah Radford spent two hours recasting ‘Howl’ over Twitter. (originally collected by @debcha)
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The American Room — The Message — Medium
Paul Ford on the rooms in (American) straight-to-camera, self-filmed YouTube videos and much more, very good. (via Kottke)
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Suck: Daily - Nothing for Nothing
1996, on giving away content for free.
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Game of Thrones - The New Yorker
About the design of aeroplane seats. Interesting. The firm it focuses on is on Worship Street on the Shoreditch/City borders.
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The Disruption Machine - The New Yorker
Taking apart Christensen’s ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’ and everything that goes with it. Very good.