Reading List
- WebExtensions in Firefox 48 – “Chrome add-ons can now be run in Firefox with no manifest changes”. Chrome extension architecture becoming a de-facto standard for extensions seems like a good thing for devs & users.
- Talking of which… For A Better Extensions Ecosystem – Opera, Mozilla, Microsoft propose common packaging format and core APIs for extensions. (Mail to the Community Group.)
- Combining Typefaces – Tim Brown’s guide to great typography is now released for free.
- Caching best practices & max-age gotchas by Jank Architect
- Reducing JPG File size – excellent article by Colt McAnlis of Google
- The end of a mobile wave – interesting piece by @BenedictEvans on slowdown in Smartphone sales.
- How Chinese Typewriters Led Way to Predictive Text on Smartphones
- Front-End Performance: The Dark Side – “I focused on security-sensitive situations in which performance can actually be a bug rather than a feature” by Mathias Bynens
- Web accessibility will now be the law of the land in Europe – EU Directice requires all EU governments’ websites to be accessible.
- Inside “Emojigeddon: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium – “And yes, obviously a burrito emoji will be more in use than medieval punctuation.
- How Dell plans to grow its PC business in a declining market– “to cater for a new mostly-millennial workforce that wants to work wirelessly”
- A Do-It-Yourself Revolution in Diabetes Care – Diabetes patients design their own ‘artificial pancreas’ using a Raspberry Pi. Design and code are open-sourced.
- Headline of the week: Indonesian villagers mistake sex toy for angel
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