Reading List
A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my underwear so I can spend time reading stuff.
- Link o’ the Week: Inclusive Design 24 – YouTube videos of free 24-hour online event about inclusive design for the global community. Thank you to all organisers, hosts and sponsors for this fabulous service.
- One Invalid Pseudo Selector Equals an Entire Ignored Selector .. but not any more for -webkit- pseudo-elements in Firefox. Die, vendor prefixes, DIE!
- Using the Web Audio API – loadsa tutorials from beginner to advanced by Your Friend, Ruth John.
- I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead. Here is why. – it’s why I turned off the Gutenberg editor on my blog.
- Accessibility is Not What You Think – “Accessibility is not about designing for the few. It is designing for us all” says Uncle Paul Boag.
- An nth-letter selector in CSS – Jezza makes a compelling case for adding this to the canon
- Context, Culture And Service Design – Marc Fonteijn interviews Diego Mazo about the need for deeply understanding local culture in service design. (30 min YouTube video).
- Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+ – “”We are shutting down Google+ for consumers”
- ”‹Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio – That’s 60,000 patents. Bravo.
- Pornography, Rape, and the Internet (PDF) – “the arrival of the internet was associated with a reduction in rape”, especially in men aged 15-19. So why is the UK government censoring porn, when evidence suggests that will lead to more sexual assaults?
- What’s in a number: how love for expensive cars and number plates revealed the second Skripal suspect’s indentity – it’s amazing what you can find on the web these days. “Ah, Mr Bond – we’ve been expecting you, because we tracked your Bentley through webcams with unchangeable default admin passwords.”
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