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Web FontFonts speak many languages, but most of the time you only need a select few. Removing the letters you don’t need can greatly reduce the font file size to make your websites faster, optimize bandwidth usage, and reduce high-traffic costs.
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Rendr is a small library from Airbnb that allows you to run your Backbone.js apps seamlessly on both the client and the server. Allow your web server to serve fully-formed HTML pages to any deep link of your app, while preserving the snappy feel of a traditional Backbone.js client-side MVC app.
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Aside from abandoning HTTP Basic altogether there is an easy fix. close port 80 on your API host. This stops a connection being made dead in its tracks, preventing any credentials being sent in the clear.
Food for thought re securing your API.
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Not only that, but the one woman who made whatever the cut was based on her own talents and merits would then be accompanied by four other women who are there “for the sake of including women” – which in turn, to me – makes it look like she is only on a panel to fulfill the “women quota” rather than the actuality – that the organizers thought her pitch kicked ass enough to make the cut.
I’m always wary of commenting on or participating in anything related to sexism/racism/everyism in the software/design world as the privileged white male custard pie is smushed into my face. This post by Rae Hoffman articulates many of my thoughts on the matter.
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Timeline cards are the core of your user’s interaction with Glass. They not only display your content but are also how your users interact with content on Glass. It is important to create timeline cards that are clear, presentable and readable in both format and style.
The Mirror API provides three ways to design cards: by providing text, by using our HTML templates, and by creating your own HTML template.Glass UI provides almost zero barrier to entry, just use HTML.
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The primary drivers are: preloading images sooner, more aggressive use of idle network time, dynamically changing resource priorities, deprioritization of preloaded resources, and reduced bandwidth contention among images. In the process, we replaced the old scheduler with a new scheduler that lives in the browser process.
Some insight into Chrome page load time improvements.
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For years Instapaper was the gold standard, but it’s slipping further and further behind. It might have great fonts, and it certainly has the best-looking (and cleanest) reading view, and it arguably has the best parsing engine (the thing that removes the cruft and leaves just the sweet, simple article text), but it’s feeling a little old-fashioned.
One of the worst arguments against something I’ve read.
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ruthlessly stripping every potentially problematic phrase from your language is utterly impossible in practice. I’ve seen people try: they contort their prose into long, rambling sub-clauses, strings of acronyms and neologisms. And by refusing to use any word or formulation that anyone, anywhere might object to, they make their writing unreadable by everyone.
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The Web could be improved by having content strategists organise ads. Subtle and useful trumps invasive and useless every time.
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Keeping people really matters. Everything flows from people. Build good culture.