The personal cowardice of Jack Dorsey*.
Donald Trump is bad for Twitter, both as a platform and as a company. As CNN reports, thanks to Trump’s terrifying and racist new immigration policies would-be visitors to the United States may soon be asked to hand over their social media passwords for “extreme vetting.” This vetting would reportedly include monitoring public and private messages and tracing friendship graphs.
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Exakt.
taz-Bot Judith Botler zum Frauentag: { track: „#genderwahnsinn“ }.
Zum Weltfrauentag haben wir einen Bot programmiert. Warum? Weil das Programmieren eine Form der Selbstermächtigung ist.
World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web (Part 1).
Ignighter got 50,000 registrations, but it wasn’t enough to reach critical mass, and the founders considered abandoning their business. Then, they noticed they were getting as many sign-ups a week from India as they did in a year in the USA. Perhaps the group-dating model that they anticipated for Jewish families really resonated with conservative Muslim, Hindu and Sikh families in India, Singapore and Malaysia, so they rebranded as Stepout, relocated to Mumbai and became India’s biggest dating website.
Update: Here is part 2.
Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World.
The beauty of typography has no borders. While most of us work with the familiar Latin alphabet, international projects usually require quite extensive knowledge about less familiar writing systems from around the world. The aesthetics and structure of such designs can be strongly related to the shape and legibility of the letterforms, so learning about international writing systems will certainly help you create more attractive and engaging Web designs.
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.
