What Black Independence Looked Like in 1900.
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington helped create this striking collection of charts, maps, and graphs of life for free African Americans at the turn of the 20th century.
What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App?
Webfonts on the Prairie.
Over the last three years I have participated in a number of testing sessions. In that time I never heard a user complain about:
- the use of system fonts in a design.
- a website having the same typeface as another site.
- a page using system fonts that loaded too quickly.
- a site NOT using web fonts.
A Nerd's Guide to Color on the Web.
Using <b> and <i> elements.
You should always bear in mind that the content of a b element may not always be bold, and that of an i element may not always be italic. The actual style is dependent on the CSS style definitions. You should also bear in mind that bold and italic may not be the preferred style for content in certain languages.
CesiumJS – an open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps.
#blackvotesmatter.
Pres. Obama Just Dropped a Truth Bomb on Black Voters.
“This is Ska” 1964 documentary (via boingboing.net).
“When you interact with a stranger, you’re not in your own head, you’re not on autopilot from here to there. You are present in the moment. And to be present is to feel alive.” I underlined those sentences while reading Kio Stark’s When Strangers Meet on a recent flight home. As an experiment, I decided when the plane landed I would try to talk to as many strangers as I could. I wound up talking to three.
Doubtful claims but still good reading.
Silicon Valley’s Secrets Are Hiding in Marc Andreessen’s Library.
What does the history of Hollywood have to do with Uber? A lot, as it turns out.