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.
Source: labs.detectify.com
All links from
188 interesting links collected during 2017, including "Security Questions are not secure" and "Elon Musk turns a tweet into reality in 6 days 🚀 ".
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
Source: calendar.perfplanet.com
Dealing with "Security Nihilists"
I don’t live to work anymore, I work to live.
Source: hackernoon.com
The world in which IPv6 was a good design
And then the Internet would be elegant again.
Source: apenwarr.ca
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.
Source: levelup.gitconnected.com
Pyttestyrning eller coacha till självstyre?
Varje plötslig inblandning i andra människors ansvarsområden gör att deras upplevelse av att ha mandat förstörs.
Source: smidigt.blogspot.com
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.
Source: hackernoon.com
Three ways AI can improve the performance of your property portal
It’s these images that are often one of the biggest digital assets
Source: www.propertyportalwatch.com
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
Source: design.google
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.
Source: airbnb.design
‘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
Source: www.theguardian.com
The pitfalls of persuasive design
If users are powerless, designers are not doing their job.
Source: uxdesign.cc
UX, growth, and kids these days
In general, drug dealer references making sense in your product is a sign of a problem
Source: uxdesign.cc
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
Source: mentalfloss.com
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.
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: github.com
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
Source: www.linkedin.com
Svenskarna och internet 2017
Två tredjedelar av de svenska internetanvändarna söker eller tittar på bostad på internet.
Source: www.soi2017.se
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.
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: uxdesign.cc
Everyone is a designer. Get over it.
Whether you like it or not, whether you approve it or not, people outside of your design team are making significant design choices that affect your customers in important ways.
Source: library.gv.com
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
Source: heydesigner.com
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.
Source: webkit.org
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
Source: medium.com
Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
A lot of (web) developers use a local .dev TLD for their own development.
Source: ma.ttias.be
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
Source: blog.chromium.org
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
Source: woodyzuill.confetti.events
WICG/transfer-size
Enable developers to set and enforce limits on network usage by nested contexts (i.e. iframes).
Source: github.com
Dissecting the Chrome Extension Facebook malware
The Facebook malware that spread last week was dissected in a collaboration with Kaspersky Lab and Detectify
Source: labs.detectify.com
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
Source: 10clouds.com
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.
Source: hassis.com
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.
Source: www.lantmateriet.se
How to GraphQL
The free and open-source tutorial to learn all around GraphQL to go from zero to production.
Source: www.howtographql.com
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
Source: github.com
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.
Source: www.fastcodesign.com
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.
Source: webkit.org
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
Source: fastighetsnytt.se
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.
Source: noflake.org
SnowflakeServer
The first problem with a snowflake server is that it’s difficult to reproduce.
Source: martinfowler.com
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.
Source: cloudscaling.com
regl.party
regl is a new functional abstraction for wegbl.
Source: regl.party
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.
Source: peterbeshai.com
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
Source: www.betterup.co
Cross Team Testing – ett sätt att kompensera för hemmablindhet i agila team
Source: www.youtube.com
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
Source: www.resume.se
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.
Source: m.signalvnoise.com
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.
Source: www.arbetarskydd.se
The Advantage Of Being A Little Underemployed
People can get some of their most important work done outside of work, when they’re free to think and ponder.
Source: www.collaborativefund.com
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.
Source: www.officevibe.com
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.
Source: www.dn.se
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
Source: blog.iamsuleiman.com
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.
Source: www.nyteknik.se
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
Source: zarazhang.com
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.
Source: medium.com
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
Source: arxiv.org
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.
Source: thinkgrowth.org
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.
Source: www.cooper.com
GDPR Attack Plan
A free video training course from security expert Troy Hunt that teaches you all about EU GDPR and how to comply.
Source: info.varonis.com
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?
Source: www.linkedin.com
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
Source: nickcraver.com
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.
Source: www.youtube.com
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.
Source: www.nyteknik.se
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.
Source: www.grahamcluley.com
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
Source: spoonagency.com
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.
Source: smidigt.blogspot.com
yandex/gixy
Gixy is a tool to analyze Nginx configuration. The main goal of Gixy is to prevent security misconfiguration and automate flaw detection.
Source: github.com
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.
Source: phenomic.io
Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly
Success is simply a continual failure to crash
Source: spectrum.ieee.org
"MP3 is dead" missed the real, much better story
MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free.
Source: marco.org
Why you should enforce Dangling Commas for Multiline Statements
Let’s dig into it and find out why so many people use dangling commas.
Source: medium.com
Don’t Overcomplicate Javascript
Ask yourself, is this valuable enough?
Source: bits.ristic.io
Walking Through Design in Tokyo
By disclosing the station at the scale appropriate for the user, it makes learning about the station more manageable.
Source: uxdesign.cc
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
Source: uxdesign.cc
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
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: digital.di.se
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.
Source: blog.buoyant.io
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)
Source: blog.buoyant.io
Scrum makes you dumb
If your software developers are able to accurately estimate how long something will take, you should fire them
Source: www.linkedin.com
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
Source: www.breakit.se
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
Source: www.na.se
How to cycle through reverse-i-search in BASH?
You should be able to cycle through alternatives by repeatedly hitting Ctrl+R
Source: unix.stackexchange.com
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.
Source: uxdesign.cc
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.
Source: www.applevis.com
Mobile UIs are Turning Upside Down
Our phones are getting bigger, but our hands don’t.
Source: uxdesign.cc
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.
Source: prepack.io
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.
Source: blog.forrestthewoods.com
Oops Pages - Creative 404 Sites
Showcase of the best oops pages
Source: oops.re
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.
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: www.wsj.com
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."
Source: www.engadget.com
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.
Source: library.gv.com
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.
Source: theoutline.com
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?
Source: uxdesign.cc
The benefits of a diverse team
The world is diverse. Companies just cannot afford not being. The future demands it.
Source: uxdesign.cc
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.
Source: www.fastcodesign.com
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."
Source: www.digitaltrends.com
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.
Source: brutalistwebsites.com
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
Source: digital.di.se
Optimizing for Large-Scale Displays
A look at the challenges and techniques for optimizing your site on large-scale displays
Source: css-tricks.com
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%
Source: daverupert.com
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.
Source: adprofs.co
Smidigt!: Dröjsmålskostnad (cost of delay)
Dröjsmålskostnaden kan uttryckas som svaret på frågan: "Vad förlorar vi varje dag på att inte ha genomfört förändringen än?"
Source: smidigt.blogspot.com
Commoditisation of UI
Your users don’t care if your design is unique or not. They just want it to work for them
Source: hackernoon.com
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.
Source: deardesignstudent.com
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
Source: www.airpair.com
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
Source: developers.google.com
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.
Source: liu.se
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.
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
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.
Source: hbr.org
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
Source: www.viget.com
Screenshot? Ugh, you’re doing it wrong!
Instagram noticed I had taken a screenshot and gently nudged me to use the proper share features
Source: m.signalvnoise.com
Creativity is a remix | Kirby Ferguson
Source: www.youtube.com
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.
Source: groups.google.com
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
Source: www.ingenjoren.se
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
Source: nicolas-hoizey.com
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.
Source: medium.com
GraphCMS - GraphQL Based Headless Content Management System
Build a GraphQL Content API in Minutes
Source: graphcms.com
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
Source: erikbern.com
Prisjakt stärker säkerheten efter läckta mejladresser
En medarbetares konto har kommit på villovägar och uppenbarligen hamnat i orätta händer.
Source: www.prisjakt.nu
Chain of Fools 2017 - Every windows version upgraded through
Source: www.youtube.com
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
Source: www.fastcodesign.com
Design Better Cards
The card is a user interface component that acts as an entry point to more detailed information.
Source: uxdesign.cc
Did Snapchat succeed because of its controversial UI?
Maybe that’s one of the reasons millennials love it
Source: medium.com
Cloud Spanner
ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability
Source: cloudplatform.googleblog.com
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.
Source: svenskanomader.se
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.
Source: uxdesign.cc
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.
Source: www.theatlantic.com
HTML5Pattern
A source of regularly used Input-Patterns
Source: html5pattern.com
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.
Source: cloudfour.com
We need more shitty work
Once you give yourself permission to produce shitty work, only then will great results come
Source: femke.co.nz
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
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
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
Source: blog.cloudflare.com
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.
Source: vlgux.com
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.
Source: vlgux.com
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.
Source: www.wired.com
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.
Source: robots.thoughtbot.com
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.
Source: developers.google.com
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.
Source: arstechnica.com
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
Source: www.breakit.se
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.
Source: www.wired.com
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.
Source: uxdesign.cc
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.
Source: www.fastcompany.com
The Rules for Modern Navigation
A few best practices allow designers to create more effective, clearer navigation experiences.
Source: www.uxbooth.com
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.
Source: blog.appcanary.com
React Native at Instagram
React Native allowed product teams to ship features faster to both our iOS and Android apps.
Source: engineering.instagram.com
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
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: www.teacherhack.com
The Law of Leaky Abstractions
Abstractions fail. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There’s leakage. Things go wrong
Source: www.joelonsoftware.com
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.
Source: tobiasdokken.com
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.
Source: arxiv.org
Check your backups Day!
February 1st! In dedication to the @GitLab outage of February 1st 2017!
Source: checkyourbackups.work
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
Source: www.troyhunt.com
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.
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
Microsoft REST API Guidelines
The guidelines Microsoft REST APIs SHOULD follow so RESTful interfaces are developed consistently
Source: github.com
Improving account security with delegated recovery
Use your Facebook account to provide additional authentication as part of the recovery process at GitHub.
Source: www.facebook.com
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.
Source: www.thelocal.at
Head Cheat Sheet
A list of everything that could go in the <head> of your document
Source: gethead.info
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.
Source: github.com
A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies
Source: www.zachleat.com
Managing Mobile Performance Optimization
The best way to get into the mobile mind-set is setting and adhering to a strict performance budget: establishing a target for the final website’s speed and size
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
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.
Source: www.va.se
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
Source: posts
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.
Source: blog.intercom.com
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.
Source: uxdesign.cc
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.
Source: boxesandarrows.com
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?
Source: medium.com
Certified Malice
...both good guys and bad guys alike will take advantage of the offer and obtain HTTPS certificates for their websites
Source: textslashplain.com
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.
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: www.theguardian.com
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.
Source: techblog.netflix.com
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
Source: textslashplain.com
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.
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
gatsbyjs
Transform plain text into dynamic blogs and websites using the latest web technologies. A React.js static site generator.
Source: github.com
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.
Source: www.brokenbrowser.com
Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should
CSCI 2100: Unlearning Object-Oriented Programming
Source: prog21.dadgum.com
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.
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: uxdesign.cc
big-list-of-naughty-strings
Strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.
Source: github.com
ES proposal: import()
It enables dynamic loading of ECMAScript modules and is explained in this blog post.
Source: www.2ality.com
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
Source: thenewstack.io
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."
Source: medium.com
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
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: medium.com
Wekan
The open-source Trello-like kanban (built with Meteor)
Source: github.com
Uber Movement
We’re providing access to anonymized data from over 2 billion trips to help improve urban planning around the world
Source: movement.uber.com
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.
Source: medium.com
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.
Source: kevinhughes.ca
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.
Source: www.linkedin.com