Bruce Lawson's personal site

• Planning for Responsive Images with some magical CSS Grid
• What’s new on iOS 12.2 for Progressive Web Apps by Maximiliano Firtman
• Bit, a distributed virtual component repository for projects built in a modular way (open source)
• Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web by Lin Clark
• HTTP State Tokens – draft spec by Mike West (Google) on a mechanism for”better cookies”
• HTML email reborn, as Google brings AMP to your inbox -“With AMP embeds, email can now contain rich interactivity, not just text and pictures”. Whoop-de-fucking-doo.
• Grindr ‘up for sale on security grounds’ – “US authorities expressed concern that [Kunlun Group] the firm’s ownership of the US-based firm is a national security risk”. Kunlun is the leading partner in the consortium that own Opera browsers.
• Idiosyncracies of the HTML parser – a fabulously geeky book by Simon Pieters
• aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com – a useful URL lengthener

• HTML, CSS, and the Path to Accessible Web Design by Jennifer Riggins, quoting me.
• All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS by Mr Richard Rutter
• Sophisticated Partitioning with CSS Grid by Rob Weychert
• Killed By Google – a “list of dead Google products, services, and devices.” < Of course, any company has the right to withdraw products. But it's a good idea not to base your products on someone else's free APIs/ hosting etc. If it's free they owe you nothing.
• The Fabulous And Groovy Vadim And Vitaly Video Show – 1 hour YouTube video of Vadeem Makeev, Vitaly Friedman and me discussing CSS Nesting, AV1 codec, the new KV standard library and all the web news that’s fit for family viewing.
• Square leverages Weebly acquisition to bridge offline and online commerce – Square “wants to play a part in all transactions ”” this is how it makes its money, whether a sale takes place online or offline.”
• Google hit with €1.5bn fine from EU over advertising – “”Google has cemented its dominance in online search adverts and shielded itself from competitive pressure by imposing anti-competitive contractual restrictions on third-party websites.”
• And because of the EU fine, Google to offer Android users browser choice by PPK
• Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
• An exclusive look at an original iPhone prototype

A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my lacy red manties so I can spend time reading stuff.

• rebuilding of the original NeXT web browser – “Ready to browse the World Wide Web using WorldWideWeb?”. See how your site would look on the first-ever web browser
• CSS Nesting Module (Editor’s Draft) – ” introduces the ability to nest one style rule inside another, with the selector of the child rule relative to the selector of the parent rule. This increases the modularity and maintainability of CSS stylesheets.”
• Designing An Aspect Ratio Unit For CSS by Auntie Rachel on Smashing Mag.
• Making Sense of Chrome Lite Pages by Tim Kadlec
• The Web We Broke – Ethan Marcotte on WebAim top million homepages accessibility report
• Over 75% Of Global Magento Websites At High Risk Due To A Simple Oversight
• DuckDuckGo CEO testifies: Privacy legislation isn’t ”˜anti-advertising’ (via my much-less-handsome-than-me cousin @simonmigliano)
• C Is Not a Low-level Language – “Your computer is not a fast PDP-11 … implementations of C have had to become increasingly complex to maintain the illusion that C maps easily to the underlying hardware and gives fast code.”
• The World Wide Web turns 30: our favorite memories from A to Z
• Brit prisoners to be kept on the straight and narrow with JavaScript and CSS – coding training to prepare prisoners for work after release. “The opportunity for a short, C#, shock has sadly been missed.”

A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my lacy red manties so I can spend time reading stuff.

• An accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages – “97.8% of home pages had detectable WCAG 2 failures”
• Colour contrast bookmarklet – Ada Rose Cannon’s widget to analyse a URL’s colours and highlight areas with inadequate contrast. (85% of the million home pages analysed by WebAim had this error.)
• Fighting Uphill – Eric Bailey’s thoughts on that WebAim report
• The web just got an official password-free login standard (featuring the pullitzer-winning fact “there are many, many web pages” </snark>)
• Using CSS Grid the right way – “Use names. Use frs. Don’t use a grid system. Wait, what? “
• MJML – “a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email .. MJML’s open-source engine generates high quality responsive HTML compliant with best practices.”
• An exercise in progressive enhancement – Chen hui Jing on the “actual implementation of a site that works without Javascript, but is enhanced by Javascript when it is available”. (I’d love to see similar for all frameworks etc.)
• Interesting Custom Element Data Begins – what sorts of custom elements are out there in the wild? asks Brian “Extensible” Kardell
• Semantics to Screen Readers – how do screen readers and other assistive programs actually access your content? What information do they use?
• TypeScript introduction – “an in-depth series covering almost everything from pure basics to some complexities”
• Frontend Workshop from HTML/CSS/JS to TypeScript/React/Redux – “In this two-day workshop you’ll learn the basics of frontend development while building a working web app”, by Microsoft, open license
• Spammers are abusing Twitter cards to lend legitimacy to fraudulent adverts by Uncle Tezza, @edent
• Revolut insiders reveal the human cost of a fintech unicorn’s wild rise – just because it’s all start-uppy and disruptive, it doesn’t mean it’s not vile and exploitative
• Talking of which … Amazon Warehouse Workers Game
• Hipsters all look the same! Scientific FACT. – “Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster”

The word ‘demagogue’

refers to someone who may be charismatic and often bombastic, and is able to use his oratorical skills to appeal to the baser, more negative side of people’s feelings

It’s an apt word for the right-wingest of the Brexiteers who are marching to leave. The way they speak about the European negotiators is simply rude: “You must live in Narnia, Michel Barnier!” and “Get back in your bunker, Jean-Claude Juncker!”, both on the march to leave home page.

Silly people.