Designers: icons for actions is A BAD IDEA. Just had to help my mum write an email on a tablet after years of using the Gmail app and thinking it was reading only. The fucking pencil icon means *nothing* and the paper aeroplane doesn’t mean “send” either. Use. Words. On. Buttons.

what is a .woff? a font for dogs????

Something I’ve discovered as I’ve gotten older that I didn’t understand when I was young:

Being an asshole is easy. Being cruel, tearing things down, sabotaging things — easy. You don’t need to be smart.

But being good? Building things, lifting people up? It’s HARD.

Brutal studio-job.com

👋 I’m looking for new front end development opportunities — if anyone knows of any available job positions in Toronto, let me know 🙂 jaymierosen.com

I’ve been reminiscing about vloggers from back in the day…

Remember the @RealAskANinja vlog circa 2006 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Ninj… ?

“opml” by @luca grabs RSS feeds from the blogs of all the folks you follow on Twitter, so it’s easy to add them to your RSS reader bit.ly/2WlEus5 📚 t.co/flSljmLP6u

Keen to get some more junior roles (dev, product, or design) up and running on Honest Work so drop me a DM if you’re interested in posting your junior/entry level role for free.

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I’m looking for full-time employment. I can do writing, editing, PR, webdev, design/layout, music, curating, soc media. If anyone knows of a company, publication, museum, or institution that might want to hire me, I would be grateful for an introduction benjedwards.com t.co/Wih37ky1xF

Hey WordPress people. This is the best WordPress email newsletter that I read as soon as it comes out. They just crossed 100 issues. Add it your inbox.

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Design School Freshman > Design School Graduate > Junior Designer > Senior Designer > Creative Director > Freelance Designer t.co/dopxVrOi4M

We have had solid testing tools for web apps for more than a decade, which enable programmers to keep legacy code maintained without the fear of breaking behavior.

And that’s why, about every two years, all code gets thrown away and rewritten in whatever framework is popular.

“The Internet added <canvas>, but the Internet stopped being one.”

jarredsumner.com/codeblog/

“We assume that complex problems always require complex solutions. We try to solve complexity by inventing tools and technologies to address a problem; but in the process we create another layer of complexity that, in turn, causes its own set of issues.”

mxb.at/blog/on-simplicity/

Well said @mxbck

Often times taking things away does wonders as opposed to slopping on extra layers of complexity.

EasyEngine v4.0.10 released with Custom SSL certificate, Custom webroot, SSL renewal, and Swap.

easyengine.io/blog/easyengine-v4…

Current Status

Tip: <link rel=preconnect> is great for eliminating costly round-trips to important domains from the critical path: bit.ly/preconnect. Improved our Time To Interactive on Chrome.com by almost ~1s. t.co/R9PO7kPiCu

Whoa it’s been a while since I paid attention to it but what the hell happened to colourlovers.com It’s like 95% ads 0% love.

“If we make it so that you have to understand programming to even start, then we take something open and enabling, and place it back in the hands of those who are already privileged. I have plenty of fight left in me to stand up against that.”

Ditto 💪

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