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  • The Birth & Death of JavaScript

    2020-01-01

    Gary Bernhardt on the past, present and FUTURE of JavaScript including some cool WASM stuff (web assembly)

  • Media Studio

    2020-01-01

    Handy free tools for Twitter media professionals

  • Launching the European Digital Social Innovation Index | Nesta

    2020-01-01

    Really interesting report on how different cities compare in their apparent infrastructure for and ability to support Social Innovation.

  • Share secret messages and documents securely

    2020-01-01

    Share secret things, like passwords and sensitive data, with granular controls over expiry and deletion and sharing. Alternative to onetimesecret.com

  • paulirish/lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube embed.

    2019-12-30

    Faster, lighter, more private YouTube embed

  • Creating Voice Skills For Google Assistant And Amazon Alexa

    2019-12-28

    Great overview of voice assistants and how to get started developing for them.

  • Building an accessible show/hide disclosure component with vanilla JS

    2019-12-27

  • Making a Better Custom Select Element ◆ 24 ways

    2019-12-26

    Good overview of how and why to create an accessible custom, filterable select element. With some good accessibility knowledge/tips too.

  • Microbrowsers Are Everywhere

    2019-12-26

    Really useful article on how to make sharing of your web pages work nicely across things like messenger platforms that use “micro browsers” to make previews of your pages.

  • Error handing when using the vanilla JS fetch() method with async and await

    2019-12-26

    Good article that gives tips on using fetch() with async/await and adding error handling

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