Hey,
it’s summer and hot weather in Europe and I quite enjoy this. Though we have all work to do we should take some free minutes and enjoy sun outside this weekend. Finally, I’m happy to say that GratiPay payments are working again but you can also donate via PayPal (via the online version).
News

Concepts & Design
- Here is a good primer on how to properly create alignments and balance of different shapes.
- The in-app Safari of iOS9 will bring some more changes and they’re pretty interesting when you look how it can improve the UX.
Generic / Tools
- Are you a CLI user and often need to force kill some processes? Here’s
fkill-cli
to handle it. Cross-platform.
Web Performance
- Facebook studied on how efficient browser caching works today.
- Tim Kadlec shares some thoughts and reminders that it is important to write your code and create your applications with unpredictability in mind. Because apart from your server you can’t predict anything on the web.
HTML / SVG
- A great little reminder on how important it is to make your website reachable for everyone by using progressive enhancement techniques.
- Jeremy Keith on the lowest possible baseline for progressive enhancement and maintenance burdens taking a practical example.
JavaScript
- Detect animation- and transitionend with JavaScript. Little helpers you can use by Osvaldas Valutis.
CSS / Sass
- As Media Queries become more powerful we still have to consider a lot of circumstances that the user faces when using a website. And that’s when User Queries make sense. Orde Saunders on what they are and could look like.
- Create accessible footnotes with CSS.
- Mat Marquis explains the trouble we often face with Media Queries and why we urgently need a better solution to adapt components / elements to its parents’ container.
- Emil Björklund wrote a good primer on how to use the CSS Grid System to create great visual layouts in the web easily. Although it’s not well supported yet, I bet this technology will change how we write layouts in future.
- And Stefan Baumgartner is straighten out PostCSS, explaining misunderstandings, misconceptions and other Myths (pun intended).
Privacy / Security

Work/Life
- The Atlantic has a great essay on what would be if the world was without work. But the paradox of work is that many people hate their jobs, but they are considerably more miserable doing nothing. A good read on the challenges of work, a human’s work and robots replacing humans.
- About paying for productivity apps and why money is less important than time.
Go beyond…
- We need to talk about startups… shows the issues of today’s startup bubble and why in some cases the author believes that it’s even worse than 1999.
- Rachel Andrew shares how to keep track of your costs and software licenses and how to avoid common issues.