Reading List 289
- OMG let it be true: The leaked “final” version of the Digital Markets Act: A summary in ten points – “Article 5 point (e) has been expanded to capture instances where the gatekeeper requires business users to offer or interoperate with a web browser engine. This is most likely meant to address Apple’s policy of requiring all browsers running on iOS to utilize Apple’s WebKit browser engine”
- Learn PWA – A course that breaks down every aspect of modern progressive web app development
- Building a split-button component – foundational overview of how to build an accessible split-button component, by Adam Argyle
- CSS Parent Selector “In this article, I will explain the problem that :has solves, how it works, where and how we can use it with some use-cases and examples, and most importantly how we can use it today.”
- Mobile data costs fall but as demand for internet services surges, progress remains too slow – “almost one billion people live in countries where basic internet access remains unaffordable. And even in countries where 1GB is priced at less than 2% of average monthly income, income inequality means that basic internet access will still be out of reach for many lower-earners.”
- The Front-End Developer’s Guide to the Terminal by Josh W Comeau
- Designing for Children – “An evolving guide that aims to refine a new standard for both design and business to direct the development towards products and services that have ethics and children’s best interests at their core.”
- Brief Note on Buttons, Enter, and Space by everyone’s favourite Adrian.
- Download icons, logos, and vector SVGs from any site SVG Gobbler is a browser extension that finds the vector content on the page you’re viewing and gives you the option to download, optimize, copy, view the code, or export it as an image.
- Your iOS app may still be covertly tracking you, despite what Apple says – “Apple’s landmark App Tracking Transparency may not be as tough as some people think”
- Automating the accessibility tests of your source code with GitHub Actions
- Accessible Description Exposure – how and where the accessible description is exposed by assorted screen readers, by Adrian Roselli
- Cognitive Accessibility Guidance – supplemental guidance from W3C
- Staybl is a browser for Parkinson’s patients, with “customizable tremor compensation tremor compensation, high-contrast design, a particularly legible font, and general ease of use.”
- Warp – a new terminal written in Rust – looks very promising, with lots of useful features. Beta is free to download on Mac (other platforms coming)
- This is a map of America’s broadband problem – A county-by-county look at the broadband gap
- Beanstalk cryptocurrency loses $182m of reserves in flash ‘attack’ – ‘Code is law’ cryptotwats lose $182m in a manoeuvre perfectly legal according to its own code, then go sobbing to the FBI. My Decentralised thoughts and Proof of Prayers are with them in this difficult time.