Meetup now available on Bridgy
Fantastic work by all involved!
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Today the trident era ends
Great write up on the innovations provided by the Internet Explorer team. It is really important to recognise their contributions to the wider web sphere
Quality of Life Index
Wellington 2nd best place in the world to live!
https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000494405.pdf
Unicron Transformer
Hasbro are trying to fund a giant Unicron Transformer. This thing looks incredible.
https://hasbropulse.com/collections/haslab/products/transformers-war-for-cybertron-unicron
OSX Dashboard to be removed
I wonder what the dashboard specific key will map to instead?
Does this mean that Apple have to upgrade the graphic on all their new keyboards to match?
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18652971/apple-macos-catalina-dashboard-widgets-removed-feature
Generation Style by Eric Meyer
Great write up of Eric’s presentation by Jeremy. A couple of interesting observations on CSS generation I hadn’t considered.
Absurd Design
Free to use abstract illustrations. Discovered via Jacky (https://v2.jacky.wtf). Just make sure you compress them if you use them on a website.
Emoji avatars
I love this idea. I feel it is starting to add the one thing we miss in online conversations. Context.
Tracking your user data is pointless
Excellent write-up on why collecting personal data is a bad advertising model.
Sparks - a sparkline font
A timely find, I was just about to add sparklines to my site using SVG. But this might be a nicer alternative