Ben Francis
I really loved Firefox OS. I even own 2 Firefox OS devices.
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Signal v Noise (aka SvN), the famous Basecamp blog, is also leaving Medium, joining the movement towards re-de-centralization of blogs. 👍🏻
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The Flexbox Holy Albatross Reincarnated
when you have three items, you’ll be happy with the three-abreast layout and accepting of the single-column configuration. But you might like to avoid the intermediary part where you get a pair of elements on one line followed by a longer element underneath.
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I've been using Brid.gy since I started using Webmentions on this site, to get mentions from silos (Twitter mostly) back to the contents. This is an awesome service.
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If it's interactive, it needs a focus style
I love this really didactic talk about focus styles:
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On the importance of testing with content blockers
To build good websites, I think we should prioritise working websites above gathering potentially useful data (if doing that at all). As developers, we should keep in mind trackers could get blocked and, consequently, never rely on their availability.
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Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
[Flutter is] an open-source software development kit (SDK), developed by Google, to quickly build iOS and Android apps, sharing most of the code. It works in conjunction with the Android and iOS SDKs
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Computer Science in the 1960s through 1980s spent a lot of effort making languages that were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful.
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Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
Great read about security and passwords, summarizing bet practices we've known for a while now, but unfortunately too few enterprises already follow.
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