Reading List
- Flash & The Future of Interactive Content – “Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”. Flashes to flashes, Dust to dust.
- Petition to open-source Flash Player to preserve digital heritage.
- TLS Wiretap Fear – “It’s being alleged that there is an attempt to weaken Web security in a deep fundamental way” by Tim Bray
- Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid – excellent progressive enhancement article
- <nav> type attribute proposal – to distinguish between types of navigation for Assistive tech
- EME at the W3C – Alastair Campbell reluctantly concludes that it’s necessary. (I agree).
- Detect if your Native app is installed from your web site and, e.g., don’t show a PWA install banner
- We now have a community-approved Progressive Web Apps logo!
- P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads – so consumers hate them, they slow sites down (which reduces revenue) and they don’t work. So who gains?
- Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era> – lots of useful advice for making a password policy
- Putting audiences at the heart of VR – long BBC blog post covers “how mainstream audiences currently regard VR, their first reactions to experiencing VR, what types of content resonate and what has impact”
- Social Media Intelligence – Privacy International looks at government collection of data from social media
- A Million Squandered: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact – how linkrot has affected the 2005 piece of web history
- Cash machine hacked in five minutes – “most cash machines are effectively a Windows XP computer attached to a safe”
- Introducing Bluetooth Mesh Networking
- Africa’s Digital Revolution: It’s Not Easy – “some of the transformation discourse is overblown and premature”
- Net neutrality supporters sent over 5 million emails to the FCC – in Trumpistan
- New Tech Start-Up Bubble – Funny and thought-provoking 20 min talk by Dan Lyons on start-up “culture”, VC funding, & where lack of (real) corporate social responsibility is taking us. Highly recommended.