I’ve just finished reading Snooks article User Generated Content in a Classy World, which is turn was a follow up to Chris Coyiers article Class up Content. Recently I’ve been trying to apply AMP templates to the Responsive Design Knowledge Hub and it’s been a learning curve. The thing I can not fix is the… Continue reading User generated content in a multi platform publishing world
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Toggl
Free Time Tracking Software & App, great for keeping on what you’re doing for which projects and it’s FREE”! Visit Link
Craft by InVision LABS
Craft is a plugin for Sketch and Photoshop that will pull in real content, both imagery and text, to get away from the Lorem Ipsum and see how your designs will really be used. Visit Link
How to manage future products in Shopify
As you may be aware of I’ve started selling notebooks online. This started almost a year ago when I had the idea of putting together some notebooks that focused on the three tenets of responsive design… and from that was born the first set of 3 responsive design notebooks. I didn’t just want to create… Continue reading How to manage future products in Shopify
Planet – by Oskar Stålberg
A fantastic little WebGL project that allows you to build up your world with oceans, land, hills/mountains and villages. Visit Link
tota11y – An accessibility visualization toolkit
tota11y is a single JavaScript file that inserts a small button in the bottom corner of your document. (It’s on this very page.) The toolbar consists of several plugins that each provide their own functionality. Many of these plugins “annotate” elements on the page. Sometimes to show their existence, other times to point out when… Continue reading tota11y – An accessibility visualization toolkit
Condescending Popups
In the past year I’ve been noticing more and more condescending popups being used on websites. I think the pattern of an email popup halfway through an article is evil, regardless of how well they perform (loan sharks make good money, it doesn’t mean it’s a good thing). Somehow website owners have taken the annoying… Continue reading Condescending Popups
ARO: native mobile web performance monitoring
Tonight I was privileged to make it to London web performance meet up to catch Doug Sillars @dougsillars talk about native app performance. Doug works at ATT In Seatle and showcased a free app that ATT develop to monitor native web apps…. think webpagetest.org but for native apps. I highly recommend checking it out at http://developer.att.com/ARO
Intern: Software testing for humans
A node.js package that will allow you to write tests easily and perform tests on the command line, in your browser or offload it to something like BrowserStack Visit Link
The Shard and the Moon
Last night, christmas eve, we were fortunate to have the clouds disappear and watch the moon rise next to The Shard in London Bridge.