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Work with me – CSS Wizardry – consultancy, CSS code reviews, speaking, workshops, CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts
Another way to do CSS class naming. Here are so many names. All of them feel like they’re trying to make up for fundamental deficiencies.
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mroth/unindexed · GitHub
“A website that irrevocably deletes itself once indexed by Google.” Anti-archiving. (Via Waxy)
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Transitioning to SCSS at Scale
How Etsy moved from “400,000+ lines of CSS split over 2000+ files” to using SCSS.
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What We Wore — A People’s Style History
I do love some of these photos. (via Put This On)
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Favicon Generator for all platforms: iOS, Android, PC/Mac…
Not beautiful, but very nicely done.
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Favicons, Touch Icons, Tile Icons, etc. Which Do You Need? | CSS-Tricks
This is both very handy and, if you scroll down to “Example #3: Support for everything” rather dispiriting. Can’t help thinking something’s gone wrong somewhere.
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How we manage design work in Pivotal Tracker - Pivotal Tracker
How Pivotal Labs use Pivotal Tracker to manage design work, as opposed to development work, in an agile process (much of it isn’t specific to Pivotal Tracker). (via @antimega)
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Development Aesthetics
Relentless images of and comment on the hoardings surrounding new developments, mostly in London.
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How to save a web page to the Internet Archive
Bookmarklet and Chrome extension. (via @textfiles)
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The Entrant’s Guide to The Automobile Industry | Asymco
Fascinating to realise quite how different the (mainly) US car industry is to so many other more dynamic, less consolidated ones. (via Daring Fireball)
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Gemnasium
“Parses your project’s dependencies and notifies you when new versions are released or they need to be updated.” For python, ruby, node, php, etc. (via @dracos)
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requires.io | Monitor your dependencies
“Monitors the requirements of your project and notify you whenever a dependency is outdated.” (via @mrchrisadams)
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There’s nothing sinister about Guardian stories going missing online | Open door | Comment is free | The Guardian
A bug in the automated rights system led to a lot of articles disappearing. Another one for the “transitory nature of the web” file.
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Shoegaze: An Oral History
What it says. Not *hugely* interesting to be honest.
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Hardware by the Numbers (Part 1: Team + Prototyping) — Medium
Four parts. I’m not overly fascinated by making hardware, but enjoy reading general starting/growing-a-business experience, even if it’s focused on making a business with the aim of exiting. (via Tom Taylor)
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A Year of Reflection — Today’s Office — Medium
Jan Chipchase on design studios, taking risks, his year of “creat[ing] the minimum viable process and infrastructure to be able to take on challenging projects that can have significant impact, and do good work.” (via @cityofsound)
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Home - Annotator - Annotating the Web
“An open-source JavaScript library to easily add annotation functionality to any webpage.” Used on hypothes.is.
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Handmade Leather Bags - Personally Hand Made by Henry Tomkins
Made in Exeter, can be customised.
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How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock | Wet Asphalt
I spent a lot of teenage time reading these books. (via Boing Boing via Interconnected)
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Male pattern boldness
“I started sewing in 2009 and today make all my own clothes using mainly vintage patterns and vintage sewing machines.”
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TaylorTailor
“I’m on a mission to design and create my entire wardrobe from scratch. It’s going to take a while.” Also, bags.
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Waffle.io · Work Better on GitHub Issues
A nice columnlar front-end on to GitHub issues. Free for public repos.
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Learning to Make Your Own Clothes, Part Two
Tips and resources from two men who make their own clothes.
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Alievens
A guy in Belgium who makes his own shirts, trousers, jackets. (via Put This On)
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Best Work Backpack Finalists :: Third Annual Carry Awards
Some nice-looking backpacks there, which don’t look like you’re about to go hiking.
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All My Blogs Are Dead - The Awl
A writer on all the blogs and news sites he’s written for which no longer exist online. Paper magazines and newspapers ultimately have greater longevity. (via Waxy)
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zupamarket_en
Brutalist tower block paper cut-out models, with a set of London buildings. (via @cityofsound)
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Time Travel
Search for a URL and a date and this aggregates results from lots of different web archives.
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What the Web Said Yesterday - The New Yorker
On the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, and attempts to archive the web in general.
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Perma.cc
A way to create an archived copy of a page for citation purposes. T&Cs say “WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OR UNDERTAKINGS AS TO PERMANENCE OR THE DURATION OF PRESERVATION.” Brilliant.