Fostering focus for small screens – Dropbox Design – MediumA nice before/after redesign post with a focus on mobile and simplicity. Hack The Box :: Penetration Testing Labsinteractive learning media

Please TRU Write With Me, I’m All Shiny And New – CogDogBlogUntil now, the editor did not automatically embed media from sites like YouTube, vimeo, twitter, SoundCloud from a plain URL — the user had to trust it would happen. MathigonAn interactive math resource worth looking at. h/t Clint Lalonde Choose Simple Solutions Over Flexible Ones | Thinking SidewaysWhat my colleague failed to realize is that flexibility does not come for free: You pay for it with increased code complexity (and with pointless switch-statements). PerkeepPerkeep (née Camlistore) is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem. mholt/timeliner: All your digital life on a single timeline, stored locallyTimeliner is a personal data aggregation utility. It collects all your digital things from pretty much anywhere and stores them on your own computer, indexes them, and projects them onto a single, unified timeline. School Stumbles Upon Chalkboards From 1917 During Renovation, Perfectly Preserved Lessons Provide Rare Look Into Past. | The Literacy Site BlogPrincipal Sherry Kishore says she loves the discovery, and she’s been amazed to see how the school taught basically the same lessons back then as […]

Under-Engineered Responsive Tables | Adrian Roselli Back/forward cacheBack/forward cache (or bfcache) is a browser optimization that enables instant back and forward navigation. It significantly improves the browsing experience for users—especially those with slower networks or devices. A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon | by Rabbit Rabbit | curiouserinstitute | Sep, 2020 | MediumQAnon grows on the wild misinterpretation of random data, presented in a suggestive fashion in a milieu designed to help the users come to the intended misunderstanding. Maybe “guided apophenia” is a better phrase. Guided because the puppet masters are directly involved in hinting about the desired conclusions. They have pre-seeded the conclusions. They are constantly getting the player lost by pointing out unrelated random events and creating a meaning for them that fits the propaganda message Q is delivering. “Affordances,” a science-fiction story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias.A new science fiction story about how technical restrictions start with powerless people before coming for us all. Diva.js – A web-based document collection viewerDiva.js is a web-based document viewer optimized for high-resolution image collections.