A funny love letter (of sorts) to Microsoft from SitePoint’s Managing Editor.
Dispatches From The Internets
Dear Microsoft, I’m confused.
A Brief History of that Time You Used Web Fonts
This looks like an excellent talk from Zach Leatherman. It’s packed with useful recommendations. I hope the video’s posted soon!
Excellent Speakers for Your Next Tech Event
Like many, I’m disappointed that gender—or ethnicity, etc., etc., etc.—should even have to play a role when it comes to selecting awesome speakers, but the reality is that the dais at most tech-related events and conferences is still occupied (largely) by white men. That needs to change. We’ve been very intentional with our programming of Code & Creativity, but it wasn’t like it was hard to find an incredible speaker lineup that also happened to be pretty diverse.
NPR.org Now Twice As Fast
An excellent overview of some significant upgrades to NPR.org along with some advice to web developers.
Net Awards: Outstanding Contribution
No one was more deserving of this award than Molly. No one.
Thank you for all you have done for the Web Mols! And, especially, thank you for all you have done for me.
Crossposting to Medium from Jekyll
Last week, Jeremy Keith posted about syndicating his content to Medium using their new API. Before they added the API, there was no way to automatically publishing to Medium from your own blog. And doing it manually was quite tedious.
Jeremy posted in detail about how to set it all up and provided the PHP code he’s using to make it all work. As I’m running a static site on Octopress, I ported it to Ruby as a Jekyll Generator. I’ve posted it to Github, so you can grab it there if you so desire.
Your computer school sucks
Accessibility is an afterthought in much of our industry. In order to change that, education needs to change and code schools need to change. Karl nails it in this post:
While Hacker You should be applauded for their regular lunch-and-learns, I think that all computer schools should include accessibility embedded in core curriculum. It will create an alumni population better prepared to create interfaces that are universally usable. Their alumni will be differentiated by their ability to consider the user’s needs. After all, if you’re not developing for the user, who are you developing for?
Restoration of defocused and blurred images
Time to stop blurring sensitive client information in your slide decks and articles. Cover it in a black box instead.
On Adaptive Web Design’s Second Edition
I wrote the bulk of Adaptive Web Design in early 2010 while taking a much-needed break from client projects. I had originally slated for it to be released just before the holidays that year, but life happened and the book did not make it out into the world until mid-2011. Six months is a long time in the technical world, and especially on the Web. A year is forever.
Strapless
On Friday, Kelly and I were having a conversation over lunch about the ubiquity of Bootstrap. It’s a topic we’ve been kvetching about for the the last few years—we’ve grown tired of seeing the same site everywhere we look.