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Introducing: Figma to React – Figma Design

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This says that this particular text element should be positioned relative to the top of the parent, and should stretch with the parent horizontally such that the left and right margins are preserved. The parent in this case is the rectangle surrounding “List item 1”. Applying constraints out of the…

6 years ago

In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible

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Last week I took part in the Third Annual Phil Patton Lecture , hosted by the Masters Program in Design Research at The School of Visual Arts in New York. The event is held in honor of the program’s former faculty member, design journalist Phil Patton , who passed away in 2015. Its format is a bit…

6 years ago

Test drive of a petrol car - Tesla Club Sweden

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In other languages: Swedish , Norwegian , Russian , German , Dutch , Portugese , Having heard so much good about petrol cars, we decided to test drive one. They are said to combine cheap price with long range and fast charging. A winning formula on paper – but how are they in real life? We sat us in…

6 years ago

Team Leader Venn Diagram – Making Meetup – Medium

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Lara Hogan Feb 22, 2018 · 4 min read A tool for gaining a shared understanding of responsibilities Upon arrival at Meetup as a “fractional” VP of Engineering, I began to hear something that I hear at lots of organizations: confusion about team leaders’ roles and responsibilities. Product teams…

6 years ago

Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?

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Mandy Michael Sep 13, 2017 · 4 min read I recently had the opportunity to speak at Web Directions Code 2017 over in Melbourne. While there, I was part of a panel with Mark Dalgleish and Glen Maddern (who gave spectacular talks I might add). We’d just finished a set of talks about CSS, and during the…

6 years ago

Hyperapp + Parcel = 😎 – Daftcode Blog

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In this post, we’ll have a closer look at two new tools in the front-end world. They are both developed with simplicity and ease of use in mind. First one is a tiny frontend framework called Hyperapp, the second is an asset bundler by the name of Parcel. Together they might be the best way to…

6 years ago

Resource Hints - What is Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect?

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Resource Hints - What is Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect? By Brian Jackson Updated on March 19, 2019 Today we are going to explore current resource hints and directives which can be another great way to boost the performance on your website or web application. You might have heard of preload,…

6 years ago

Front-End Performance Checklist 2018 [PDF, Apple Pages]

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About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running …More about VitalyFriedman … January 7, 2019 Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word] Upgrade your inbox…

6 years ago

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.

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David Gilbertson Jan 6, 2018 · 10 min read The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all. It’s been a frantic week of security scares — it seems like every day there’s a new vulnerability. It’s been a real struggle for me personally to pretend…

6 years ago

Techies Still Think They're the Good Guys. They're Not. | Backchannel

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Silicon Valley is slow to come to terms with the fact that it’s become the new Wall Street. In September, I met with a prominent entrepreneur looking for positive press on his new project. Meetings like these are a common, usually formulaic, part of my job—except in this one, the conversation…

6 years ago

Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You

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Consider the daily schedule of famed novelist Haruki Murakami. When he’s working on a novel, he starts his days at 4 am and writes for five or six continuous hours. Once the writing is done, he spends his afternoons running or swimming, and his evenings, reading or listening to music before a 9 pm…

6 years ago

An Open Letter to the FCC: – Eric Schneiderman – Medium

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New York State Attorney General Nov 21, 2017 · 4 min read Dear FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: As you recently announced, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under your leadership, soon will release rules to dismantle your agency’s existing “net neutrality” protections under Title II of the…

7 years ago

Snyk - 77% of 433,000 Sites Use Vulnerable JavaScript Libraries

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Last week, we released our first annual State of Open Source Security report . One of the discoveries the report mentions is that an analysis of around 433,000 sites found that 77% of them use at least one front-end JavaScript library with a known security vulnerability. This number mirrors the one…

7 years ago

The 1,000 Floor Elevator: Why Most Designers Fail Google’s Infamous Interview Design Challenge

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Svilen Jun 21, 2017 · 5 min read Design challenges are nothing new- plenty of companies use them in order to assess potential employees’ problem solving skills. But a Google interview challenge in particular seems to have captivated the global design community: Designers from around the world have…

7 years ago

Theresa May wants to ban crypto: here's what that would cost, and here's why it won't work anyway

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Aaron Swartz once said, "It's no longer OK not to understand how the Internet works." He was talking to law-makers, policy-makers and power-brokers, people who were, at best, half-smart about technology -- just smart enough to understand that in a connected world, every problem society has involves…

7 years ago

Wake up! Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook are running our lives | Hannah Jane Parkinson

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‘The problem is, a small group of companies ruling the world, just as with people, is not a good thing.’Photograph: JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images/Blend Images L et’s say you woke up this morning and after stopping your alarm clock, asked it to play some get-up-and-go music. You go to make breakfast and…

7 years ago

Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future - Wait But Why

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Note: If you want to print this post or read it offline, the PDF is probably the way to go. You can buy it here . And here’s a G-rated version of the post , appropriate for all ages. _______________________ Last month, I got a phone call. Okay maybe that’s not exactly how it happened, and maybe…

7 years ago

Your Government's Hacking Tools Are Not Safe

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The hackers will get hacked. Recent data breaches have made it startlingly clear hacking tools used by governments really are at risk of being exposed. The actual value of the information included in each of these dumps varies, and some may not be all that helpful in and of themselves, but they…

7 years ago

How to build animated microinteractions in React – freeCodeCamp

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Microinteractions guide a user through your application. They reinforce your user experience and provide delight. You may have seen some of the slick examples of microinteractions on Dribble or CodePen . But do you know how to build your own library of similar UI widgets? In this article, I’ll focus…

7 years ago

Does Google execute JavaScript? | Stephan Boyer

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Does Google execute JavaScript? August 6, 2016 I’m told: Yes, it’s 2016; of course Google executes JavaScript . But I’m also told: Server-side rendering is necessary for SEO. If Google can run JavaScript and thereby render client-side views, why is server-side rendering necessary for SEO? Okay,…

7 years ago

How to protect your online communications — @hailpixel

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How to protect your online communications November 20th, 2016 The Draft Communications Data Bill , aka “Snoopers’ Charter”, has passed the House of Lords. There is nothing stopping it from becoming law in the UK. This legislation makes extremely invasive eavesdropping and data collection legal. It…

8 years ago

This researcher programmed bots to fight racism on Twitter. It worked.

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Despite rising concern among the public, social-media companies have had little success stemming the wave of online harassment. As part of research recently published in the journal Political Behavior , I conducted an experiment on Twitter to find out the best tactics people can use to discourage…

8 years ago

CSS Architecture for Design Systems | Brad Frost

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We just created a design system for a huge organization and established a CSS architecture we’re quite pleased with. It’s one of the first times I’ve ever gotten to a project’s finish line without wishing I’d done at least a few things differently. So I thought it would be great to share how we went…

8 years ago

10 principles for smooth web animations

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There are dozens of ways to achieve animations on the web. For example, the filmstrip is an approach has been around since before the internet, with slightly different hand-drawn frame being swapped out many times a second to create the illusion of motion. Twitter recently used this simple approach…

8 years ago