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WDRL — Edition 272: Unactionable Advice, Bye iframes Hello ShadowDOM, And Teams Not Made Of Stars.
16.8.2019
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what’s more powerful than a star who knows everything? Well, a team not made of stars but of people who love what they do, like their company’s vision and can work together, support each other. Like a galaxy made of stars — where not every star shines and also doesn’t need...
WDRL — Edition 271: TTFB, the loading-attribute, tiny houses and work ethics.
9.8.2019
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The web is quite differently to when I started the newsletter in 2013 with the first edition. Back then, it was all about new features, new clever hacks and techniques how to build better websites. It was crazy at what speed we got new CSS features, and JavaScript evolved. Nowadays, it’s...
WDRL — Edition 270: Find your self, why fast software is good software and ethical data sensemaking.
2.8.2019
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Today take some time to have a deep breath and remember what happened this week. Go through it day by day and apprecuate the actions, the negative ones as well as the positive ones. Accept that negative things happen in our lives as well, otherwise we would also not be able to feel good. It’s...
WDRL — Edition 269: Shaping up, Doing well while doing good, Single toggle buttons and the Illusion of control
19.7.2019
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it’s been already four weeks since the last edition. I’ve been on vacation for two weeks and around that, as many of you probably can relate, work is crazy. Before going off you have to finish things and when you come back, you’re overwhelmed by what happend during your absence. And...
WDRL — Edition 268: Reshaping, Struggles with Agile, Checklists and The Most Effective Dose of Work.
21.6.2019
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Imagine you have a Garden. Now, imagine what you can make out of it, if you free yourself from the magainzes that show you the conventions: Look at our garden in June; We’re in the third year since I started with this (it was much smaller in the beginning), it took me a while to get used,...
WDRL — Edition 267: Econom(log)ical Limits of Work, Privacy Wilderness and UX for Tech Diets.
14.6.2019
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I see a lot of people struggle with their jobs, how to keep up to date, how to find purpose in what you do, how to earn money while staying within your ethical constraints. This all can be overwhelming and it happens to me regularly, too. I’m struggling to find projects I want to work on that...
WDRL — Edition 266: Hope in a dark forest, Reduced Motion, Truncating Text with CSS, a Docker dev setup, and Being Tired.
3.6.2019
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Last week I read about the web being and becoming more and more a dark forest. This made me thinking and I can’t get around that there’s hope in the dark forest. Let’s stay positive on how we can contribute to make the web a better place, stick to the principle of the invididual being able...
Footnotes That Work in RSS Readers
17.5.2019
Feedbin is the RSS reader I'm using at the moment. I was reading one of Harry's blog posts on it the other day, and I noticed a nice little interactive touch right inside Feedbin. There was a button-looking element with the number one which, as it turned out, was a footnote. I hovered over it,...
WDRL — Edition 265: Dark Mode, Doing Nothing, Web Share, 1 Trillion Trees, And Productivity & Promises.
17.5.2019
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I was at the amazing beyondtellerrand conference this week again and every single time I come home and try to understand our industry, and our society better. There’s so much input and inspiration around, I see a lot of friends and people I see only once per year, I hear great talks. People...
WDRL — Edition 264: Establish Principles, Long Work, Simple Living
18.4.2019
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This week, right before the long Easter weekend here, I stumbled upon “The beauty of being satisfied enough”. In times of advertising everywhere, discount days like ‘Black Friday’, and everyone telling you “you need this” or “save here” we’re constantly tempted to buy things we don’t...
WDRL — Edition 263: Edged Chromium, API Linting with Spectral, AutoComplete Rules, and UI Patents.
12.4.2019
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“Ethics” and Ethics is more than a normal article to read. It’s a long essay about what the word ethics means, how its meaning changed in recent time, and the difficulty of diffusion of responsibility in companies. It makes it hard to address and fix problems in big organizations, which...
WDRL — Edition 262: Clarity and Style, Humane by Design, 10 Years In The Web, and Almost No One.
4.4.2019
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For the last three weeks I put WDRL aside and it emerged all from one discussion with Tobias in which we found out that I constantly tend to take on too many opportunities in parallel and then struggle. Honestly, I think I’m too interested in too many things in the world and see so many ways...
Google+ v dubnu skončí, veřejné příspěvky ale budou dostupné skrze Internet Archive
18.3.2019
Google začne od 2. dubna postupně mazat svou sociální síť Google+ a nenávratně tak zmizí veškerý obsah publikovaný uživateli. Tomu chce alespoň částečně zabránit Archive Team skrze Internet Archive, který se dal do zálohování veřejných příspěvků.
Součástí archivu budou pouze veřejné příspěvky, k
WDRL — Edition 261: Society Action, Unlabelled inputs, Constructable Stylesheets and Trust as Leader.
15.3.2019
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Today is a big climate action day and pupils around the world will stand up and ask governments, politicians, their parents and relatives and businesspeople to finally show responsibility for the young generation that’ll face the results of a changing climate directly. It’s clearly not their...
WDRL — Edition 260: Company Culture, Cache Control, Encryption By Developers And Tracking Focused Elements.
6.3.2019
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Let’s think about our own take on how we do work today. If we receive a task to do, are we asking for more details, are we figuring out how to do it ourselves or just following the task’s details. If we do only the latter, this of course will get it done. But it’ll also increase the risk...
WDRL — Edition 259: Break Boxes, Common Voice, And Automated Accessibility Audits
1.3.2019
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do you sometimes feel like your brain doesn’t want to learn, read anymore during work? That’s normal, it’s something most of us experience from time to time when we have too much to do and then overload our brains with even more. I’m totally aware that my newsletter is not helpful in that...
WDRL — Edition 258: Colorless Designs, Simple Forms, Native Web Videos, and Rendering The Web.
22.2.2019
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One of the hard problems in web technology is the right balance between technical complexity, smart solutions and a nice user experience that isn’t creating cognitive overload. With Brad Frost’s examples of this gone wrong in Login forms that show how smart technological choices have been...
WDRL — Edition 257: Future of JavaScript, SVG Filters 101, and Humans not Users
8.2.2019
Hey,
this week I’ll go straight to the links I found, I simply didn’t came up with a good introduction piece this week which is probably due to the hectic week. Anyways, the articles in this edition are very useful, have new insights and great thoughts.
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WDRL — Edition 256: Safari 12.1, Chrome 72, PHP 7 performance, Sourcemaps in production and Maintaining large JavaScript codebases.
1.2.2019
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We need to act now to save our human living. It doesn’t matter that others don’t care, we as individuals need to make sure that we do everything we can to prevent our climate to go over into high-fever state (which is about 10 years away). It upon us to show companies that they need to...
WDRL — Edition 255: CSS Grid Flex-Columns, Lost Screen Time, Wait and UX Personalization.
25.1.2019
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The only constant in life is change, they say. And it’s true even if we think nothing changes in life. It’s all only how you perceive things, how you observe things and whether you notice the change or not. In tech, it’s easy, just read a newsletter like this one and see how much changes...