Linkdump for May 3rd
¶ by Rob Friesel-
I see this and I can't help but think Could we please get WebPlatform Docs out of alpha before embarking on any new comprehensive resources?
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Peter Welch:
The human brain isn't particularly good at basic logic and now there's a whole career in doing nothing but really, really complex logic. Vast chains of abstract conditions and requirements have to be picked through to discover things like missing commas. Doing this all day leaves you in a state of mild aphasia as you look at people's faces while they're speaking and you don't know they've finished because there's no semicolon.
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Julie Pagano:
Those under attack spend time and resources being distracted, growing thicker skin, trying to fight off the attacks, and, eventually, on recovery. Collecting data. Documenting incidents. Agonizing over the decision to speak up or stay quiet. Doing free emotional labor to try to make things better. Trying to avoid people and places more likely to cause problems. Wasting vacation on “mental health” days for recovery. Time and resources they can’t get back. Energy they could have spent focusing on things they care about. As a result, it’s difficult for them to keep up. They have to spend more time and energy to achieve the same goals as others.
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Thought-provoking piece by Mikkel Bo Schmidt on the inherent UI/UX problems with the select element. My gut reaction was that this was an extreme (even hyperbolic) reaction to a mis-use of the element, but given some critical thought, it's not hard to come to the same conclusion that they have. This is not to say that one should never use a select element, but he's also provided some pretty clear cases where it simply doesn't cut the mustard.
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Good tips from Tobias Günther (writing at CSS-Tricks).
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