A quick-ish post buy Eric Holscher, of Read the Docs. I agree with all of this, therefore I am linking to it. tl;dr: Have a website, not a directory of text files. Use prose, not auto-generated bullshit. Use permalinks. Have the language and version # in your URLs. Keep docs keyed to version #s.
A reasonable, if unscientific, look at the performance of various common CSS methods, comparing things like Attribute .vs. Class-based selectors, box-sizing resets, floats .vs. flexbox .vs. inline-block, and a lot more.
Love that someone took the time to do this so I don’t have to.
Slick technique that is worth looking into for many applications. As someone who deals with a lot of form inputs both as a user and a designer, there are some useful ideas here.
No surprise that Android has the fewest, with a grand total of FOUR.
Mattias Gustavsson is working on a hell of a good CRT filter:
Don’t think it is your mind playing tricks on you. In some ways, things DID look better back in the days. When hooked up to old worn-down TV’s with yesteryears technology, usually by means of a coaxial cable, the video output of the old home computers was severely degraded. Today, we wouldn’t find that image quality anywhere near acceptable, but back then it was the norm. And the weird thing is, in some ways it made the graphics look better than it really was.
The example images in the link above give me some serious, dizzy, nostalgia.
If you work for an organization with their own internal Git server and need to override your global .gitconfig info for name or email, this snippet will work if put in the .git/config of each repo you need to override that setting on:
Phil Nelson [user]
name = Your Name
email = you@email.com
Twitter threatened to launch a legal battle with the Obama administration on Thursday over gag orders that prevent it from disclosing information about surveillance of its users.
The statement puts Twitter at odds with other technology giants including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook, who all struck a deal with the government last month to drop their lawsuits in exchange for looser secrecy rules.
Bad on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook. Fuck them for laying down when they should fight for their users.
February 11th is a unified day of internet action. From the site:
DEAR USERS OF THE INTERNET,
In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation with the largest Internet protest in history. Today we face another critical threat, one that again undermines the Internet and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance.
In celebration of the win against SOPA and PIPA two years ago, and in memory of one of it’s leaders, Aaron Swartz, we are planning a day of protest against mass surveillance, to take place this February 11th.
Together we will push back against powers that seek to observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action. Together, we will make it clear that such behavior is not compatible with democratic governance. Together, if we persist, we will win this fight.
Fight on if you want an internet that is still, at least, a little bit “free.”