Hey,
Where do we see our responsibility, where do we see others’ responsibilities? And how do companies fit in here? I’m asking this myself quite a lot and yet couldn’t find a definitive answer. And with governments needing to make rules for how autonomous cars should behave in case of an incident, we can see how advanced technology can bring this topic to another dimension. We leave our kids in front of the TV, we give them our smartphones or let them use computers but don’t really know what effects it has on our children. Google now offers a premium network service tier where you can pay for a faster network—and I wonder what that means for net neutrality. I mean, there are reasonable arguments why you’d offer such service and it’s reasonable to charge more money for faster service. On the other hand, it locks out other people and could be seen as offense to net neutrality. The only thing I can say for sure is: We need to find our own stand, our own path and defend it by advocating other people, by discussing the topics in a kind way with other human beings. No hate speech or blaming will help us create a better world but only reasonable, enjoyable changes.
News
- Android 8, anmed “Oreo”, is now available and brings picture-in-picture support, there’s a system-wide autofill feature, and more. But unfortunately, it seems that the new version brings quite some issues for us web developers, especially problems with Progressive Web Apps, as Maximiliano Firtman explains.
- The latest update of Adobe XD brings quite some new features. Hoyle Wang shares what’s new: There’s a new “reuse styles and assets” feature, adds Creative Cloud libraries, and you can paste styles into XD. It also comes with common UI resources for Apple iOS, Google Material, or Microsoft Windows.
- Federico Viticci found out that in iOS11, Apple took the effort to remove Google AMP versions of a link and redirect users to the original source URL if you use iMessage or Apple’s Reading List feature. This is a very interesting step that’s likely being done because either users have trouble with AMP URLs and/or Apple is trying to avoid using a third-party proxy that can go away any time or change the content of the original URLs.
- The latest Safari Technology Preview 38 brings Service Workers and the Payment Requests API as an experimental feature, support for the
font-displayproperty, and finally support for theacceptattribute on file input fields.
UI/UX
- Jason Fried from Basecamp shares why and how they changed the interface of their Calendar schedule design. It’s an interesting insight into what we think could work and why that’s not always the truth and we need to adapt to what users want.
CSS
- Šime Vidas shares a useful Codepen snippet to match the last item of a list only if it has
{n}items with CSS only.
Work & Life
- Melinda Gates reveals that despite she spent her whole career in technology, she wasn’t at all prepared for its effect on her kids. If she’d known and thought more about the effects of technology on children, she would’ve done a couple of things differently. An interesting story that we should care more about.
Anselm