The target="_blank" vulnerability by example.
Looks Can Kill: The Deadly Results of Flawed Design.
I’m not sure who thought it was a good idea to make a concoction of toxic chemicals look like a refreshingly delicious beverage, but they do exist. And sometimes they’re even sold side-by-side.
The practical guide to why laying out type never quite does what you want.
Typography is impossible.
It turns out that when you choose font size, you actually only choose the size of the box the font lives within. What happens within that box is up to the type designer.
All your memes are belong to us.
The top 25 memes of the web’s first 25 years.
Breaking up with sustainability.
Like. Flirt. Ghost: A Journey Into the Social Media Lives of Teens.
Teens are strange and magical. To us they seem a little like Precogs from Minority Report—soothsayers of a mysterious, social-media-powered hyperdrive future, because this is the realm they’re already living in. Who saw Facebook coming? Teens. Same with Twitter, Vine, and now Snapchat. This puts them in a curious position. It makes them one of the most inscrutable generations in history—to people who desperately want to scrutinize them.
The endless journey to replace the web's most iconic and flawed filetype.
Inside the Internet's Unending Quest to Kill the GIF.
Selecting one sitting posture over another has far-reaching consequences. If you sit on floor mats, you are likely to develop an etiquette that requires removing footwear before entering the home. You are also more likely to wear sandals or slippers rather than laced-up shoes, and loose clothing that enables you to squat or sit cross-legged. Floor-sitters tend not to use tall wardrobes—it is more convenient to store things in chests and low cabinets closer to floor level.
It’s The Future.
So I just need to split my simple CRUD app into 12 microservices, each with their own APIs which call each others’ APIs but handle failure resiliently, put them into Docker containers, launch a fleet of 8 machines which are Docker hosts running CoreOS, “orchestrate” them using a small Kubernetes cluster running etcd, figure out the “open questions” of networking and storage, and then I continuously deliver multiple redundant copies of each microservice to my fleet. Is that it?
Wikiverse: a galactic reimagining of Wikipedia
The Wikiverse project is an interactive 3D visualization of Wikipedia, reimagined as a cosmic web of knowledge. Here, articles are stars bound together to form topics, fields and subjects.
