Tuesday, 7. March 12017
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state.of.dev (background).

Operation Rosehub (via t3n.de).

Twelve months ago, a team of 50 Google employees used GitHub to patch the “Apache Commons Collections Deserialization Vulnerability” (or the “Mad Gadget vulnerability” as we call it) in thousands of open source projects. We recently learned why our efforts were so important.

Design Better Data Tables.

After being the bread and butter of the web for most of its early history, tables were cast aside by many designers for newer, trendier layouts. But while they might be making fewer appearances on the web these days, data tables still collect and organize much of the information we interact with on a day-to-day basis.

We cannot easily get/set font metrics with CSS.

CSS font metrics, line-height and vertical-align.

(I was just working on a project implementing a beautiful print layout in CSS and wish I would have known this resource before.)

An experimental illustration / typography project transforming Arabic words into the shape of their meanings.

Sunday, 5. March 12017
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A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode.

Calling Bullshit In the Age of Big Data.

Thursday, 2. March 12017
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An employee handbook built for inclusion.

$(document).ready() is so 2010…

How to wait for DOM elements to show up in modern browsers.

Image Processing in Javascript.

If you’re looking for a way to process or manipulate pictures in your web project, it might be worth having a look at some of the libraries introduced in this blog post.