Amazing: How I’ve Begun Changing My Life, One Habit at a Time

Books I read

Ooooh oooh! Our next book is coming out soon! The Web Performance Daybook:

Why performance matters for e-commerce:

You only get one chance to be a beginner:

✽ SASS vs LESS

How common is your birthday? (cleverly presented in a heat map style visualization) /via @stanton

Dr @brucel explains the responsive images brouhaha currently going on

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal via @Oatmeal

Will hurt your feelings*
(And help you code better)

on zenhabits: How to Live Well

@ivanavasilj ... @Codecademy have an HTML/CSS course I saw one absolute beginner use and get on well with

I'll show you mine if you show me yours: a new article on my Cross-Browser Debugging techniques for CSS.

Simple CSS color management with SASS

5 things you should UNDERSTAND why not to use in Javascript —

Some people may recall that I've been saying Adobe are the company to watch for a while now. Heres why:

A simple flowchart that can save you some time pondering over which sectioning element to use

For those who missed it, last night we published "Let's Talk about Semantics" - #html5

The <dialog> element is added to #html5 I'm glad to see it (accessible dialogue boxes!) even if it is badly mis-spelled

37signals used the unconventional Getting Real process to launch five successful web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework, in just two years with no funding, no debt, and only 7 people.

Anyone working on a web app — including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers — will find value, fresh perspectives, and inspiration in this practical book. At under 200 pages it's quick reading too. Makes a great airplane book.

RT @rfunduk: Developer community's culture of exclusion and why I've stopped going to conferences like JSConf -

RT @markodugonjic: This is how you look for a design job via @vpieters”

The HTML5 details and summary elements can be used to create a disclosure widget for showing and hiding content, something that typically has been done with JavaScript. For example, this type of…

I'm proud of @Heroku & @Apigee for pulling their sponsorship from the Boston API Jam. This time sexist mktg didn't work

A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I…

Didn't know this existed. Absolutely brilliant. Mobile web best practices and resources via @brad_frost

RT @mislav: A photo of mine appears on Lifehacker – But people, don't pull all-nighters.

My photo used here

After reading this recent post on the new and improved time element, it got me thinking about a rather specific issue and how the element might be used when marking up a bibliography.…

Social Media Explained

aaaaaaaaaand THIS is why I opt out:

Massive respect for @ivanavasilj finishing her iPhone 365 photo project. Her summary and apps she used:

After my previous article, here's the other side of the coin. How developers can help designers:

Because so many people in the US get it wrong, here a picture of the country I came from.

This test checks which CSS3 features the browser recognizes, not whether they are implemented correctly.

Pamela Druckerman's new book "Bringing Up Bebe," catalogs her observations about why French children seem so much better behaved than their American counterparts. She talks with WSJ's Gary Rosen…

Ben Hart may be the smartest guy I know. He's a professor emeritus at UC-Davis, and I get to pick his brains over red wine (him) and beer (me) when we meet at scientific conferences. Four or five…

how to (REALLY) travel the world while running your biz & not go broke or crazy

New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping

Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are.

Web usability is an approach to make web sites easy to use for an end-user, without the requirement that any specialized training be undertaken. The user should be able to intuitively relate the actions he needs to perform on the web page, with other interactions he sees in the general domain of life e.g. press of a button leads to some action. The broad goal of usability can be:
* Present the information to the user in a clear and concise way.
* To give the correct choices to the users, in a very obvious way.
* To remove any ambiguity regarding the consequences of an action e.g. clicking on delete/remove/purchase.
* Put the most important thing in the right place on a web page or a web application.

Graceful degradation focuses on building the website for the most advanced/capable browsers. Testing in browsers deemed “older” or less capable usually takes place during the last quarter of the development cycle and is often restricted to the previous release of the major browsers.

Progressive enhancement focuses on the content. Note the difference: I didn’t even mention browsers.

Start with your content peanut, marked up in rich, semantic (X)HTML. Coat that content with a layer of rich, creamy CSS. Finally, add JavaScript as the hard candy shell to make a wonderfully tasty treat.

Here’s a list (that I’ll continue to update) containing a wide variety of skills and technologies that I think all front-end developers should be working on learning, at least to some extent

I've just read @johnfoliot's article on accessible required in HTML5 forms. It's well worth a read.

My grandma used instagram before all of you, hipsters. And without an iPhone (photo ca. 1945)

“Fear of Apple is…losing control over the software on our computers. Fear of Google is…losing control over our privacy”

Day 16: CSS3 Patterns, Explained by Lea Verou

Our CSS best practices are killing us My notes from @stubbornella talk at #aea