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by vanadium 8y ago
Their search index was great back in the 90s simply because it was so localized to a specific interest, location, theme, etc. Wayfinding was a hell of a lot nicer back then, but didn't scale in the face of Google. I do miss the intimac
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by vanadium 8y ago
"Let me duck that for you" might get a few doubletakes.
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by vanadium 8y ago
Both have their pluses and minuses. It was delightful when auditing the experiences from a potential new client in Firefox Dev Tools the other day, and realizing that I could see, inline to the target DOM element, JS events tied to them whi
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by vanadium 8y ago
> i think websites/pages, like for example movies, should have age restriction in their metadata. A few friends and I had an idea for voluntary rating back in '97, not long after the CDA of 1996 ("Black Ribbon") debac
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by vanadium 8y ago
Accessibility is one place where you'll invariably be forced to pay at some point because the 800lb gorilla of screenreaders (JAWS) is also what's used most often in both home and in most corporate environments. https:/&#x2F
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by vanadium 8y ago
I definitely know this pain (and glory) from experience and can relate. It all began when Ontario started enforcing AODA and the brand I was working with at the time had to be compliant due to their business operating in the province despit
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by vanadium 8y ago
This assumes that both your and the the subsequent site's use either pulls an evergreen version (bad practice) or the exact same version (not altogether likely). Doing enough front-end performance auditing for potential clients, it&#x2
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by vanadium 8y ago
I've talked with several companies in the past 6-8 months where this tenure-based model of elevating engineers to management positions has broken down quite a bit. What generally happens is, once in management, they end up on a track o
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by vanadium 8y ago
Having a kid during my transition to management (in the absence of existing management) brought me to the exact same thought process, and it's a dead-on observation I live every day six years later. It becomes much less about the execu
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by vanadium 8y ago
Watched this on NHK earlier in the year, and it's worth every minute. Fantastic documentary and really gives you a thorough sense of who he is and how he operates.
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by vanadium 8y ago
I have a personal Slack instance of all the people I've worked with and/or managed--and have earned my trust--over the past 7-8 years. We're close-knit and look out for one another in the Chicago market. We've landed eac
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by vanadium 8y ago
I haven't updated my resume since ~2005; when I re-entered the market looking for a new gig in 2010 and ever since, it's been LinkedIn curation and getting opportunities passed to me from my network 100%.
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by vanadium 8y ago
> There are companies that take this the other way. Companies where everyone is over 40 and has kids. And stability of the prod systems is highly prized. Nobody wants hackathons , we all leave at 5:30pm each day. These companies exist i
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by vanadium 8y ago
I remember helping the WU team as a PWS operator since about 2007, and I found the existing XML feeds lacking back then. I gave them some new data models to implement for the XML feeds, and they were thoroughly open and awesome for the help
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by vanadium 8y ago
Chalk it up to where we're at in 2018, I suppose.
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by vanadium 8y ago
UXPin (based in both SV and Poland) does just fine for our organization. Been using it for a year and a half with only fairly minor issues now and then. And it has Sketch integration.
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by vanadium 8y ago
They're much less a hardware business anymore.
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by vanadium 8y ago
No question.
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by vanadium 8y ago
While the central topic still makes sense, a lot of the technical prescriptions in there are pretty well outdated and even contradict best practices today. I'd be curious to know just how long ago this was written. Edit: March 2016, an
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by vanadium 8y ago
Bing is now serving AMP pages (since the new Governance Model was unveiled), so...
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by vanadium 8y ago
Something like XKCD 927.
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by vanadium 8y ago
Not to mention Firefox Developer Edition in general: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
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by vanadium 8y ago
If by "limit" JavaScript you mean "no custom JavaScript can be written, nor other JavaScript used other than what AMP gives you (except for AMP-supported analytics packages)", you'd be right.
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by vanadium 8y ago
I'll contribute this from Redfin's Engineering practice, July 13, 2018: "Google Doesn’t Have the Guts to Make Page Speed Actually Matter" https://redfin.engineering/google-doesnt-have-the-guts-to-ma... G
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by vanadium 8y ago
Referencing the AMP URL controversy seems somewhat relevant in this context.
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by vanadium 8y ago
This is where the whole fight over what "separation of concerns" in the front-end means scores a clean point for the traditional definition.
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by vanadium 8y ago
It would follow then that an engineer having to look at a React project in the future might have an initial reaction not foreign to an engineer having to deal with a legacy Angular 1.x codebase today: recoil.
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by vanadium 8y ago
It's a collision between half the industry telling designers they need to know HTML and CSS to do the CSS work themselves (instead of Software Engineers, because they apparently don't want to deal with it) while the other half of
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by vanadium 8y ago
I remember those days very, very well.
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by vanadium 8y ago
Having started my career at the start of the dot-com boom (and later bust), that was damn near every startup I came across. Our little agency ended up moving into eTour's space in Atlanta (VaHi) when they departed. Nice movie theatre b

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