Tuesday, 7. March 12017
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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.

Wednesday, 1. March 12017
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A web font would help, but it’s probably a money issue…

The Dyslexie Font is created for people with dyslexia to make reading easy for them.

Tracing the Life of Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, and Why She’d Favor an Abortion Ban.

She started out staunchly pro-choice. She is now just as staunchly pro-life.