Accessibility at trivago – an excellent and honest article by Ian Devlin. Matches my experience: changing culture is the hardest part of implementing accessibility.
CSS Grid Playground – a very nice introduction to Grid Layout and related tools in Firefox Devtools
EME Misdirection – “Everything [Electronic Frontier Foundation] says about DRM is true. Almost everything it says about the W3C is either false or misdirection”
State of Open Source Security survey – my chums at Snyk seek your help “create a snapshot of the state of open-source security for the entire community to dig into.”
Modern JavaScript Cheatsheet – “to help developers with basic knowledge who may struggle to get familiar with modern codebases (or let’s say to learn React for instance) because of the JavaScript concepts used.”
Uber loses its licence to operate in London – “not fit and proper to hold a private hire operator licence … a lack of corporate responsibility which could have potential public safety and security implications”
JScrewIt – “converts plain JavaScript into JSFuck code, which consists of only six different characters: ! ( ) + [ ]”
On React and WordPress – “We’ll look for something with most of the benefits of React, but without the baggage of a patents clause that’s confusing and threatening to many people.”
The Uncomfortable – “a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects”. It’s as if the designers of most JavaScript UI toolkits got their hands on a 3D printer.
AssemblyScript – “A subset of TypeScript that compiles to WebAssembly”. Or, as Ben Francis puts it, “A subset of a superset of JavaScript that compiles to a subset of JavaScript.”
The Data That Turned the World Upside Down – “How our Likes helped Donald Trump win”. From an average of 68 Facebook “likes” you can predict a user’s skin color (with 95% accuracy), their sexual orientation (8% accuracy)
The user is drunk – “Your website should be so simple, a drunk person could use it. You can’t test that. I’ll do it for you. I’ll get very drunk, and then review your website.”