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A university professor filed suit against his institution because it chastised him for inappropriate sexual behavior. He wasn’t fired, they just tut-tutted, put a black mark on his record, and told him not to do that anymore. He sued anyway, for his ego. During a class in 2013, a psychology professor at George Mason University […]

You have to give a lot of credit to Tim Bray, an Amazon vice-president who quit over the company’s treatment of workers. He was making a big sacrifice to expose Amazon’s corruption. May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of […]

We sometimes speak of the American university, as if it is all one thing, where you’ll attend and be pampered for four years and pop out at graduation to a job and a well-paid career. Corey Robin exposes the inequities of the university system by comparing City University of New York, a massive public university, […]

Tell me if this strategy sounds familiar. Pick a target, any target, as long as the Trumpkins hate ’em. Pay a non-credible source to make up an unlikely story of sexual malfeasance. Hold a press conference in which the story palpably unravels. Profit! That was the game plan in their phony accusations against Mueller and […]

Up betimes, and by coach to St. James's; but there find Sir W. Coventry gone out betimes this morning, on horseback, with the King and Duke of York, to Putney-heath, -- to run some horses, and so back again to the office, where some witnesses from...

Up pretty betimes and out of doors, and in Fen Church street met Mr. Lovett going with a picture to me, but I could not stand to discourse or see it, but on to the next hackney coach and so to Sir W. Coventry, where he and I alone a while discoursing...

Eric Bailey shares some thoughts on creating, maintaining and evaluating accessible technology. Adam Silver passes on loads of knowledge about form design. High-quality and customizable Gatsby themes and more. Enjoy.

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Marianne Bellotti passes on some great advice that has stuck with her during the process of becoming a better manager. With Chrome 76, you'll be able to use the new "loading" attribute to lazy-load resources. Robin Weruch explains how to fetch data in React with Hooks and lots more. Enjoy.

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Adam Noffsinger explains how Dropbox Design migrated to Figma. Harry Roberts dives into 'Time to First Byte'. Linzi Berry, Product Design Systems Manager at Lyft, shares the story and core principles of their design system. Enjoy.

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Hui Jing sheds some light into why reading CSS specifications is immensely helpful to build a strong understanding of CSS. A look into how visual elements affect our perception, recognition and memory by interacting with digital products. Philip Walton explains how to bundle modules and lots more. Enjoy!

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Is the internet boring now? Jake Underwood reflects on the years gone by and asks the questions, where did the web’s old personality go? Virginia Start shares a 5-step guide for designing global addresses that she devised during her research for Shopify’s International team. A handy tool that automatically generates splash screen and image assets for your Progressive Web App and lots more.

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Mark Boulton shares his concerns he has with the current thinking of what constitutes a good design system in our industry. Rachel Andrew explores the situations in which you might encounter overflow in your web designs. Firefox 69 features a number of nice new additions and lots more. Enjoy.

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Milica Mihajlija covers how browser rendering works and how to navigate DevTools to diagnose animation performance issues. Travis Almand look at how to use intersection observer watches and lots more. Enjoy.

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A look behind the scenes at how Netflix keeps you engaged and addicted. An insight into how Design Ops at Spotify work. A look into moving from Sketch to Figma and lots more. Enjoy.

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Rachel Andrew looks at some common layout patterns that we can’t yet do on the web. All the React Conf 2019 videos are now live. A dive into making Instagram faster and so much more. Enjoy!

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Robin Rendle has some wise words around the difference between a junior and senior front-end developer. Figma posted about gathering the data behind your design systems. The Cloudflare team did a deep dive into how they went about reworking the use of colour within their products and so much more. Enjoy.

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U.S. loses record 20.5 million jobs in the month of April; White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow weighs in on ‘America’s Newsroom.’