All links from 2017

Elon Musk turns a tweet into reality in 6 days 🚀 

Elon listens, answers personally, and makes changes at an incredible speed. That is one of the reasons he is so successful.

TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow

Training an artificial neural network to play MarioKart 64. It had been a few years since I’d done any serious machine learning, and I wanted to try out some of the new hotness (aka TensorFlow) I’d been hearing about.

Design for internationalization

Because many apps are only designed with English in mind, some design details can get lost in translation if you’re not careful.

Uber Movement

We’re providing access to anonymized data from over 2 billion trips to help improve urban planning around the world

Wekan

The open-source Trello-like kanban (built with Meteor)

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

After more than ten years, I’m finally ready to believe I’m a good programmer. Just like people kept telling me all along.

You don’t have Impostor Syndrome

Overcoming impostor syndrome is not the issue for the vast majority. The real struggle is to not feel intimidated and diminished by assholes

Impostor Syndrome Is Not Just a Confidence Problem

Men in tech who don’t code are presumed to be coders, and women in tech who do code are presumed to be "marketing chicks."

Could Zombie Toasters DDoS My Serverless Deployment?

Worrying about the hosting costs you might incur if a horde of zombie toasters decide to attack your service doesn’t need to be one of them

ES proposal: import()

It enables dynamic loading of ECMAScript modules and is explained in this blog post.

big-list-of-naughty-strings

Strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.

We have failed

Failed to make interfaces that are usable, failed to make software that is intuitive, and failed to make products that normal people can understand.

Take the Time to Use Fewer Words

If a user experience needs an explanation, something is fundamentally broken. Consider redesigning the experience until people no longer need it explained to them.

Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

CSCI 2100: Unlearning Object-Oriented Programming

SOP bypass / UXSS on Microsoft Edge – Adventures in a Domainless World – Broken Browser

The about:blank is a very special URL that sometimes gets confused and it does not know where it belongs to.

gatsbyjs

Transform plain text into dynamic blogs and websites using the latest web technologies. A React.js static site generator.

How Functional Animation Helps Improve User Experience

Animation is no longer just for delight; it is one of the most important tools for successful interaction.

The Line of Death

if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything he wants, including the UI of the application itself

Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React

In this post we’ll highlight some of the strategies we’ve employed along the way to optimize our JavaScript application performance.

How Latin American women are cracking the code to the tech sector

Laboratoria is a social enterprise giving young women in Peru a five-month fast-track course in coding, readying them for a job in the country’s burgeoning tech sector where demand for their skills exceeds supply but fewer than 10% of professionals are women.

You don’t need a Chief Security Officer

Removing this early accountability towards security will deny your team culture from appreciating an entire area of debt they’ll face later on.

Certified Malice

...both good guys and bad guys alike will take advantage of the offer and obtain HTTPS certificates for their websites

Rethinking URL bars as primary browser UI – Medium

Why do we show users the URL at the very top of every page? Is that the UI we would design if web browsers were invented today?

How to Avoid UX Burnout

To avoid UX burnout, it’s important to remember to take time away from the computer and the sketch books. Read a book. Go for a swim. Take a weekend off. Your creative brain will thank you.

Designing for Persuasion, Emotion and Trust

Usability was no longer enough. We had to step forward into the new world of user experience and emotional & persuasive design.

Launch mode vs iterate mode

Launching a product, and iterating a product, are two very different things and they require the team to think and operate in very different ways.

Using science to make truly tappable user interfaces

A truly tappable UI is built with elements that are at minimum around 10mm, with the optimum touch element size around 13mm

Nordström: Stockholm växer snabbare än Kina - skräpytor som Värmland kommer tömmas på folk

Ni föddes in i en värld med 200 nationer, och ni kommer att dö i en värld av 600 superstäder som står för nästan all ekonomisk aktivitet.

A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies

bramstein/fontfaceobserver

It will monitor when a web font is applied to the page and notify you. It does not limit you in any way in where, when, or how you load your web fonts.

Head Cheat Sheet

A list of everything that could go in the <head> of your document

Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked out of rooms

One of Europe’s top hotels has admitted they had to pay thousands in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack their electronic key system, locking hundreds of guests out of their rooms until the money was paid.

Improving account security with delegated recovery

Use your Facebook account to provide additional authentication as part of the recovery process at GitHub.

Microsoft REST API Guidelines

The guidelines Microsoft REST APIs SHOULD follow so RESTful interfaces are developed consistently

Using A Static Site Generator At Scale

This is the story of how we managed to bring roughly 2000 pages and 40 authors onto a technology stack made for hackers.

HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point

It will very shortly become "the norm" rather than the exception it so frequently was in the past

Check your backups Day!

February 1st! In dedication to the @GitLab outage of February 1st 2017!

Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, Bad for Process, and Bad for Software Product

Using qualitative data analysis of the survey responses given by 181 participants, we identified 49 potential consequences of unhappiness while developing software.

Vad är web beacon och hur hotar det vår personliga integritet?

Tyvärr hjälper det inte särskilt mycket att stänga av kakor för vi ser redan nu att web beacons används flitigt för att fånga upp de fall där kakor är avstängda. Det finns dessutom flera andra metoder som man kan använda istället.

The Law of Leaky Abstractions 

Abstractions fail. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There’s leakage. Things go wrong

Programmering med barn

Här finns tips på verktyg, träffar och litteratur för dig som vill lära mer om att koda med barn. Vi tipsar även om olika initiativ och arrangemang för barn och unga som vill koda.

Lossless Web Navigation with Trails

The goal of trails is to construct not only a window into web content but a narrative of user activity

React Native at Instagram

React Native allowed product teams to ship features faster to both our iOS and Android apps.

Everything you need to know about HTTP security headers

This article explains what secure headers are and how to implement these headers in Rails, Django, Express.js, Go, Nginx, and Apache.

The Rules for Modern Navigation

A few best practices allow designers to create more effective, clearer navigation experiences.

The Unexpected Design Challenge Behind Slack’s New Threaded Conversations

Slack has known that people wanted discussions to appear in clusters. It just wanted to do it right rather than do it quickly.

Designing for Virtual Reality: designers talking about their biggest challenges

MRI and CT scans are all delivered in DICOM format. Free programs can be used to get images and even 3D models from that. Unity can be used to view those in VR. It can be done fairly easily, and the longer you take to make it, the more people suffer or die from what will eventually be outdated 2D screen diagnosis.

The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class | WIRED

...many of the researchers warned him that the coming revolution in AI would eliminate far more jobs far more quickly than he expected.

Dörren öppen för att storbolag får styra vilka sajter du surfar på

Vi har nu fått ett internet där företag via domstol kan förelägga en operatör att blockera sidor på internet - annars blir det böter

Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers

Researchers have recently developed the first reliable technique for websites to track visitors even when they use two or more different browsers. This shatters a key defense against sites that identify visitors based on the digital fingerprint their browsers leave behind.

Payment Request API

The Payment Request API is a system that is meant to eliminate checkout forms. It vastly improves user workflow during the purchase process, providing a more consistent user experience and enabling web merchants to easily leverage disparate payment methods.

Investment Time

Investment time is time for investment in ourselves, our company, and our community. Primarily this means doing something that interests us. We call the time an investment because when we make an investment, we expect to get a return on that investment.

Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data

coders are building robust systems to monitor ongoing changes to government websites. And they’re keeping track of what’s been removed—to learn exactly when the pruning began.

What Makes a Great Company Culture? A Guide to Creating a Desirable Workplace

A great company culture drives employees to put forth their best work. We don’t put our values on a shelf to look at every now and then; we carry them out every day, and it will show through in our work.

Why human-centered design is an expectation.

Scientific thinking is timeless. Form a hypothesis, then test it. In addition, this could have helped the team understand if the animation was useful or not.

Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug

Our edge servers were running past the end of a buffer and returning memory that contained private information such as HTTP cookies, authentication tokens, HTTP POST bodies, and other sensitive data

Using Social Media For User Research

It would be an oversight for an organization to treat social media as nothing more than an opportunity for customer service enquiries, help requests and brand advocacy

We need more shitty work

Once you give yourself permission to produce shitty work, only then will great results come

Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t

Let’s learn how autofill works, how to build forms that support cross browser autofill, and take advantage of new features like scanning credit cards.

HTML5Pattern

A source of regularly used Input-Patterns

Why Some Apps Use Fake Progress Bars

The delay, it turns out, is meant to build customers’ confidence in the product to which they just entrusted all their financial information.

As a Designer I want better Release Notes

By applying a simple structure and some basic formatting, you can dramatically improve the appearance, readability and experience of your release notes using nothing more than the plain text characters at your disposal.

Svenska Nomader

En mötesplats för svenska digitala nomader där vi kommer att samla tips, fakta och inspiration för dig som vill ut och uppleva världen och samtidigt jobba på distans.

Cloud Spanner

ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability

Did Snapchat succeed because of its controversial UI?

Maybe that’s one of the reasons millennials love it

Design Better Cards

The card is a user interface component that acts as an entry point to more detailed information.

The Art Of Manipulating Algorithms

We couldn’t control the code of Reddit’s algorithms. But we still wanted to influence how that system works

Chain of Fools 2017 - Every windows version upgraded through

Prisjakt stärker säkerheten efter läckta mejladresser

En medarbetares konto har kommit på villovägar och uppenbarligen hamnat i orätta händer.

The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y"

We can actually treat this as probabilities from switching between languages and say something about what the future language popularities will be

GraphCMS - GraphQL Based Headless Content Management System

Build a GraphQL Content API in Minutes

How we’ve destroyed user stories

We should be thinking of stories as just one method of building a shared understanding and not the outcome.

Viewport height is taller than the visible part of the document in some mobile browsers

100vh is computed for when the browser interface is hidden, after a scroll

Utan diskussion styr normer designen

många saker utformas utan att vi riktigt tänkt över hur de ska uppfattas, vilka som ska använda dem och vad det är vi egentligen vill uppnå

Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in existing Symantec-issued Certificates

Symantec allowed at least four parties access to their infrastructure in a way to cause certificate issuance, did not sufficiently oversee these capabilities as required and expected, and when presented with evidence of these organizations’ failure to abide to the appropriate standard of care, failed to disclose such information in a timely manner or to identify the significance of the issues reported to them.

Creativity is a remix | Kirby Ferguson

Screenshot? Ugh, you’re doing it wrong!

Instagram noticed I had taken a screenshot and gently nudged me to use the proper share features

Shame the Confirmshamers

Confirmshaming is the web equivalent of the retail store worker that not only doesn’t leave you alone when you say you’re "just browsing," but says the clothes you’re wearing are ugly

Collaborative Overload

How much time do people spend in meetings, on the phone, and responding to e-mails? At many companies the proportion hovers around 80%, leaving employees little time for all the critical work they must complete on their own.

Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

Miele went full Internet-of-Things with a dishwasher, gave it a web server and now finds itself on the wrong end of a bug report and it’s accused of ignoring the warning.

Kursen där man får hacka

Vi ville hitta ett nytt och roligt sätt att undervisa i datasäkerhet. Studenterna lär sig så oerhört mycket mer om de får testa själva och inte bara läsa sig till vilka problem de ska undvika.

The PRPL Pattern

PRPL is a pattern for structuring and serving Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), with an emphasis on the performance of app delivery and launch

Making static websites less static

I started wondering how would it be to put together S3 and Lambda to generate a static website. Certainly, I wanted to use the Contentful Delivery API as the content source

Ethics and paying rent

Don’t ask how you’re going to pay your rent working ethically. Ask why you’re open to behaving unethically in the first place.

Commoditisation of UI

Your users don’t care if your design is unique or not. They just want it to work for them

Smidigt!: Dröjsmålskostnad (cost of delay)

Dröjsmålskostnaden kan uttryckas som svaret på frågan: "Vad förlorar vi varje dag på att inte ha genomfört förändringen än?"

The Beginner’s Guide To Header Bidding

Learn the fundamentals of header bidding in depth: what it is, why it matters, how it works, how to implement it, and much more.

Uncle Dave's Ol' Padded Box

An empty DIV with a standard background-image, except that it has a height of zero and a padding-bottom of 56.25%

Optimizing for Large-Scale Displays

A look at the challenges and techniques for optimizing your site on large-scale displays

Amazon öppnar tre datacenter i Sverige

Västerås, Eskilstuna och Katrineholm. Redan nästa år kommer var och en av städerna att ha ett nytt datacenter från Amazon Web Services

Brutalist Websites

In its ruggedness and lack of concern to look comfortable or easy, Brutalism can be seen as a reaction by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism, and frivolity of today’s webdesign.

2016, Like Every Year, Isn’t The Year Of The Linux Desktop

Every culture has its myths and prophecies. For Linux users, it was "The Year of The Linux Desktop."

I’m Fluent In 5 Computer Languages. Why Can’t I Switch Off The Bedside Light In A Marriott?

If hotels tested rooms on groups of consumers who were drunk, or stressed, or deprived of sleep for twenty-four hours, I’m certain they’d rethink everything.

The benefits of a diverse team

The world is diverse. Companies just cannot afford not being. The future demands it.

Is diversity a problem in the design industry?

Look around you while you read this: do you honestly think your team is as diverse as it could be, or do you sometimes feel like you work in a bubble?

The web looks like shit

teens and young people don’t like to share links anymore as they know the targets will be filled with ads; so instead they share screenshots. This stops the site from receiving any further traffic. Second, it drives people to install ad blockers.

Everyone is a designer. Get over it.

people outside of your design team are making significant design choices that affect your customers in important ways. They are designing your product. They are designers.

Potentially 'undefeatable' ad blocker looks at content, not code

A tool that detects ads the same way humans would, by looking at things like container sizes, icon graphics and words like "Sponsored."

Google Plans Ad-Blocking Feature in Popular Chrome Browser

It may choose to block all advertising that appears on sites with offending ads, instead of the individual offending ads themselves.

Preload, Prefetch And Priorities in Chrome – reloading

Preload resources you have high-confidence will be used in the current page. Prefetch resources likely to be used for future navigations across multiple navigation boundaries.

Oops Pages - Creative 404 Sites

Showcase of the best oops pages

Visualizing Commute Times

The following four images show how far you can travel from downtown Seattle by foot, bicycle, public transit, and car. Green, yellow, orange, and red represent a travel time of less than 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes.

Prepack · Partial evaluator for JavaScript

Prepack is a tool that optimizes JavaScript source code: Computations that can be done at compile-time instead of run-time get eliminated. Prepack replaces the global code of a JavaScript bundle with equivalent code that is a simple sequence of assignments. This gets rid of most intermediate computations and object allocations.

Mobile UIs are Turning Upside Down

Our phones are getting bigger, but our hands don’t.

Finally figured out what causes the screen to slide down on iPhone 6

I haven’t been able to reproduce this until now. So what you do is simply to double-tap the home-button. Not double-press it like the gesture for opening the app-switcher, but a light tap, like double-tapping the screen.

Designing forms for gender diversity and inclusion

It’s easy for us designers to just slap a gender question that says Male/Female in there — and make it mandatory — because our marketing department needs that data to sell stuff.

How to cycle through reverse-i-search in BASH?

You should be able to cycle through alternatives by repeatedly hitting Ctrl+R

Här är galna bilderna i bostadsannonsen

Det var säljarna som frågade mig om man kan hitta på något "kul" ... för att sticka ut lite på Hemnet

Jag cyklade i två veckor för Uber Eats – tjänade 39 kronor i timmen - Breakit

Kan man beställa hem mat med rent samvete? Min förhoppning är att den här texten ska hjälpa dig att själv svara på den

Scrum makes you dumb

If your software developers are able to accurately estimate how long something will take, you should fire them

A Service Mesh for Kubernetes

a service mesh is a layer that manages the communication between apps (or between parts of the same app, e.g. microservices)

What’s a service mesh? And why do I need one?

A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for making service-to-service communication safe, fast, and reliable.

Han skriver en bok om Spotify: "Det var från början en pirattjänst"

Spotifys betaversion var från början en pirattjänst. Det som distribuerades var mp3-filer som de anställda råkade ha på sina hårddiskar.

Why Are App Install Banners Still A Thing?

Because Apple hasn’t implemented PWA technologies in Safari and functionally prevents others from doing so, the expectations of iOS users regarding the web are set low

Design avatars that make sense — and be more inclusive in the process

Some common missteps, shows why good avatar design matters, and lays out real-world examples of better avatars in action

Walking Through Design in Tokyo

By disclosing the station at the scale appropriate for the user, it makes learning about the station more manageable.

Don’t Overcomplicate Javascript

Ask yourself, is this valuable enough?

Why you should enforce Dangling Commas for Multiline Statements

Let’s dig into it and find out why so many people use dangling commas.

"MP3 is dead" missed the real, much better story

MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free.

Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly

Success is simply a continual failure to crash

Phenomic, a modern website generator based on the React and Webpack ecosystem

All pages are available as HTML (works with no JavaScript) but users can get an enhanced navigation (when JavaScript is on). Phenomic provides a dynamic UX similar to apps. Try to navigate this website to see it by yourself.

yandex/gixy

Gixy is a tool to analyze Nginx configuration. The main goal of Gixy is to prevent security misconfiguration and automate flaw detection.

Smidigt!: Vi är inte rädda för det nya

Nya saker fascinerar oss. Även nya arbetssätt och ny teknik. Men när vi tvingas möta det nya utan att få behålla tryggheten i det vi är hemtama med så blockeras vår nyfikenhet.

Är native advertising och content marketing samma sak?

Till skillnad från traditionell annonsering fokuserar native advertising också på att ge mottagaren ett mervärde, snarare än information om priser, produkter och tjänster

New NIST guidelines banish periodic password changes

NIST now recommends that we no longer force periodic password changes and we no longer should force complexity requirements.

Experten: Kreativitet kräver tid – och övning

De reglerna gäller inte på kreativitet. Man måste släppa på produktivitetshetsen, men det har företag så förbannat svårt att lära sig.

Mike Brittain: Building Resilient User Experiences

Not every piece of data on the page is critical to the user experience. The front-end of your site (i.e. front-end applications, templates, and user interface) needs to be designed to tolerate service outages.

HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road

Getting to that point has taken years of work. As of now, HTTPS is the default on all Q&A websites

A one question Daily Scrum is three times more effective!

How can we as a team complete the most important user story before the next meeting?

GDPR Attack Plan

A free video training course from security expert Troy Hunt that teaches you all about EU GDPR and how to comply.

Visual Interface of Voice UI

I’ve identified 6 key moments with voice UI that visual feedback is important: powering on, listening, thinking, speaking, adjusting volume, and being placed on mute.

The Next Phase of Community

The truth is community isn’t on the decline, it’s just different. It is once again evolving. Community has transcended borders.

PDF: When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts

Researchers believe there is a 50% chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks in 45 years and of automating all human jobs in 120 years

If You Want to Be Creative, Don’t Be Data Driven

Creativity allows us to take the data we have, question our starting assumptions about what the data is telling us, and experiment until we make something useful out of it.

A Guide to Using WeChat Emojis

Some emojis that I use most frequently while communicating on WeChat, but do not really have equivalents on Western messengers like Facebook Messenger and iMessage

Borde robotbetjänten slå tillbaka?

Det är inte självklart hur Alexa och de andra borde reagera när hon stöter på internets värsta troll, de sämsta sidorna av mänskligheten, eller bara fulla, fnittriga tonåringar som inte kan komma på något bättre att göra med sin torsdagsnatt än att säga obsceniteter till ett datorprogram.

Horizontal Scrolling Lists in Mobile - Best Practices

Content-heavy apps use nested scrolling with horizontal lists. While that’s not wrong, it’s implementation must be done correctly

Bildreportage om Nationella insatsstyrkan som laddar för den nya terrorismen

– Hela vår utbildning handlar om att våga blotta sig själv, om att hitta ett klimat där elitistiska individer vågar tänja på gränser och bjuda på misstag. Vi ska rädda livet på varandra.

How To Build Psychological Safety On Your Team

I’ve always wondered why we wear a mask when we’re at work. Why should I be one person at home and a completely different person at work? It makes no sense.

Stressforskaren: "Empati kostar på"

Om man arbetar väldigt hårt med huvudet verkar det som om det beslutsfattande bränslet tar slut. Det måste man sova bort, eftersom sömnen återställer hjärnan.

Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s Chrome

If you’re using Chrome, take a moment to download another browser and incorporating it into your routine.

Så många reklammiljoner kastas bort på retargeting

Drygt en tredjedel av respondenterna säger sig ha eller fundera på att installera en reklamblockerare som resultat av reklamen

Cross Team Testing – ett sätt att kompensera för hemmablindhet i agila team

6 Proven Ways to Create a Culture of Engagement

One way to make your organization irresistible is to create a culture of engagement. This type of work environment enables the three core elements of work engagement: vigor, dedication, and absorption

Beautifully Animate Points with WebGL and regl

How to draw 100,000 points and a basic approach to animating them. However, with these same ideas, you can do even cooler animations when you start using different layouts.

regl.party

regl is a new functional abstraction for wegbl.

The History of Pets vs Cattle

In the old way of doing things, we treat our servers like pets, for example Bob the mail server. If Bob goes down, it’s all hands on deck. The CEO can’t get his email and it’s the end of the world. In the new way, servers are numbered, like cattle in a herd. For example, www001 to www100. When one server goes down, it’s taken out back, shot, and replaced on the line.

SnowflakeServer

The first problem with a snowflake server is that it’s difficult to reproduce.

The Noflake Manifesto

The Noflake Manifesto proposes that we have reached a point where there is no longer any excuse for [Snowflake Servers] servers to exist.

Självkörande bilar trissar upp bopriser

Om människor som känner motstånd mot att resa plötsligt får tillgång till självkörande fordon kanske fler väljer att bosätta sig utanför innerstaden och då stiger priserna där

Intelligent Tracking Prevention | WebKit

Intelligent Tracking Prevention is a new WebKit feature that reduces cross-site tracking by further limiting cookies and other website data.

Hulu’s New UX Is Beautiful–And Frustrating

Hulu did away with the grid setup on its home screen. Instead, it serves up viewers a personalized assortment of shows–a product of user-set preferences and a machine-learning algorithm.

Contribute on Open Source Friday

Contributing to the software you already use isn’t altruistic—it’s an investment in the tools your company relies on. And you can always start small: spend two hours every Friday working on an open source project relevant to your business

How to GraphQL

The free and open-source tutorial to learn all around GraphQL to go from zero to production.

Historiska ortofoton blir öppna data 1 september

Den 1 september kommer du kostnadsfritt att kunna ladda ner skalriktiga flygbilder (ortofoton) ur ett rikstäckande lager från 50- och 60-talet samt ur ett påbörjat lager från 70- och 80-talet. Dessa bilder blir då öppna data.

What "engineering maintenance day" is, and how it keeps us sane

EMD occurs one day a month, per project, where we take the time to update dependencies, do risk assessment and look at our current technical debt.

Frontend and JavaScript Resources for Backend Developers

Here’s a list of some of the web’s best frontend and JavaScript resources for any curious back-end developer

Dissecting the Chrome Extension Facebook malware

The Facebook malware that spread last week was dissected in a collaboration with Kaspersky Lab and Detectify

WICG/transfer-size

Enable developers to set and enforce limits on network usage by nested contexts (i.e. iframes).

Mob Programming: A Whole Team Approach | With Woody Zuill

On October 10th, we are very happy to welcome Woody Zuill to us at Dynabyte! Mob Programming: A Whole Team Approach

Chromium Blog: Unified autoplay

In Chrome 64, autoplay will be allowed when either the media won’t play sound, or the user has indicated an interest in the media

Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS

A lot of (web) developers use a local .dev TLD for their own development.

Vad fick grannen för huset? MittMedias nya textrobot skriver en text så fort ett hus har sålts

I den här första versionen av boten så kan vi förutom de förväntade datapunkterna så som pris och vem som köpt och sålt, även visa ut om det gjorts någon annan bostadsaffär i närheten. Beroende på datat så vinklas artiklarna olika

Designing Websites for iPhone X

Your website can make use of a few similar new pieces of WebKit API introduced in iOS 11 to take full advantage of the edge-to-edge nature of the display.

How to Write a Perfect Error Message

Error messages are a great opportunity to improve user experience, share your brand voice and personality. Pay attention to all aspects of a good error message

Stop doing user interviews. Start having conversations.

Relax! You’re talking to a human, who is sitting in front of you, being very kind to answer all of your nosey questions.

The problem with ‘roadmap first’ teams

Great products are born only when the core features are the team’s main focus, and iterations and improvements are part of the team’s culture. The key is adding value, and not just marking more V’s in the checklist.

Svenskarna och internet 2017

Två tredjedelar av de svenska internetanvändarna söker eller tittar på bostad på internet.

Why Bad Business Habits Kill R&D Effectiveness

The little revenue from selling something unique to a specific customer doesn’t even come close to the lifetime cost of maintaining this functionality

ankane/safely

Exceptions are rescued and automatically reported to your favorite reporting service. In development and test environments, exceptions are raised so you can fix them.

Advice From A 19 Year Old Girl & Software Developer

I hope to inspire some people to also get involved in the tech world, and that it’s really not as scary as it seems.

Watch Computer Pros Get Excited About Windows 95...in 1995

In this classic episode of Computer Chronicles, host Stewart Cheifet explores the newly-released Windows 95

UX, growth, and kids these days

In general, drug dealer references making sense in your product is a sign of a problem

The pitfalls of persuasive design

If users are powerless, designers are not doing their job.

‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

the pull-to-refresh mechanism ... rapidly became one of the most addictive and ubiquitous design features in modern technology

Sketching Interfaces – Airbnb Design

We wanted to see how it might look to skip a few steps in the product development lifecycle and instantly translate our sketches into a finished product.

Evolving the Google Identity

a special variant of our full-color logo that is only 305 bytes, compared to our existing logo at ~14,000 bytes

Three ways AI can improve the performance of your property portal

It’s these images that are often one of the biggest digital assets

Stop Obsessing Over "The Teams"

Forget about Agile and Scrum on the team level. Start with the org. Visualize the work as it is really happening ... with all the gnarly dependencies. Have 150 person stand ups if that is the true size of the team.

Pyttestyrning eller coacha till självstyre?

Varje plötslig inblandning i andra människors ansvarsområden gör att deras upplevelse av att ha mandat förstörs.

A recap of front-end development in 2017

Front-end engineering once again evolved at a feverish pace in 2017. Here is a list of the most notable events of the past year.

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

And then the Internet would be elegant again.

Dealing with "Security Nihilists"

I don’t live to work anymore, I work to live.

Promising HTTP Headers for Web Performance

Some HTTP headers that are not fully implemented or specified but could lead to a simpler CDN configuration and better performance

Security Questions are not secure

In the US, you would never use your phone number as a security question because anyone could look it up. However, you would have no problem using the SSN as a security question.