"The API is an interface, through which many developers interact with the data. A good designed API is always very easy to use and makes the developer’s life very smooth. API is the GUI for developers, if it is confusing or not verbose, then the developer will start finding the alternatives or stop using it."

Classic dish of Spain and Latin America, this arroz con pollo recipe is browned chicken cooked with rice, onions, garlic, and tomatoes.

"Database Flow is an open source self-hosted SQL client, GraphQL server, and charting application that works with your database. Visualize schemas, query plans, charts, and results. You can run Database Flow locally for your own use, or install to a shared server for the whole team."

Creating an accessible and harmonious typography system 2 separate typefaces using Sketch's text style manager.

Mozilla's Internet Health Report is about the human experience of the Internet.

Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features, sites, and information gathered on the lunar terrain. Music Provided By Killer Tracks: "Never Looking Back" - Frederick Wiedmann. "Flying over Turmoil" - Benjamin Krause & Scott Goodman. This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619 Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ http://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts

"Born out of a frustration with picking colors for data visualizations. This project is optimized for tweaking, copying, and pasting in and out of JavaScript."

What if Mario moved like one of the Bloopers or Jellyfish? What if the entire Mushroom Kingdom was made of that same undulating flesh, quivering and pulsing unsettlingly beneath the flailing boot or diving face of a lurching, heaving plumber? What if you could play... Jelly Mario? (via RPS)

An optimistic design choice that ends up compounding complexity

A presentation at An Event Apart Seattle 2018.

A presentation at An Event Apart Seattle 2018.

"To seek truth together requires a culture of humility and respect. We are all deeply flawed and valuable. We must all speak and listen."

"If you’re at all serious about web design or development, you need to be serious about learning and using CSS Grid, too. Andrew Clarke explains how."

"Whale oil provided fuel for lighting and lubrication for the gears of the industrial revolution, until it was replaced by petroleum products in the mid-nineteenth century. The whaling industry ranked ninth in the United States in overall value to the economy at its height in the mid-1840s. The documentation of that industry is extensive; the data presented here combines many sources including logbooks, journals, ship registers, newspapers, business papers, and custom house records."

Oven~roasted chicken wings are coated in a sauce made with tomatoes, onion, garlic, soy sauce, honey, and spices. Served with sticky rice and steamed broccoli

Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm. Common use case is backing up server to S3, but there's an impressive number of connective services, including Google Drive, Azure, Mega.co, and Dropbox.

"Photography works by my mother Masha Ivashintsova (1942-2000), which I found in our attic after she passed away (Leningrad, USSR)"

CSS Logical Properties and Values aren't quite ready to be used yet, however learning about them can help you to understand CSS Layout, and the interaction with Writing Modes.

A functional, flexible JavaScript motion library

"a funded research project exploring the potential of walking to gather environmental data and through multiple walks and visualisations build a rich picture of that area. The project examines technology and tools for creative data gathering and experimenting with data visualisation, to create tools, gain insight, and share knowledge"

"Once a matter of debate, we know today the Earth is not flat. But the satellite imagery we’re most familiar with — taken straight down — flattens and obscures the visual cues we get from perspective, making the imagery appear like maps, not photos."

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Thoughts on Ruby, Rails, open source software, programming, and life from Olivier Lacan

The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

"A few years ago, I was hired to work as a consultant on a software project for a large French tech company. What I have witnessed there is beyond everything I could possibly have imagined in terms of software engineering. Far more serious than just a lack of professional competence was the utmost contempt for human dignity which at some point made me compare the whole experience to (what I imagine can be) jail. What I relate here is a selected list of topics that should illustrate my point, but check out by yourself."

It's no more scientifically valid than a BuzzFeed quiz.

XKCD's April Fool is surprisingly good, and in-depth.

"Transforming a graphical user interface screenshot created by a designer into computer code is a typical task conducted by a developer in order to build customized software, websites, and mobile applications. In this paper, we show that deep learning methods can be leveraged to train a model end-to-end to automatically generate code from a single input image with over 77% of accuracy for three different platforms (i.e. iOS, Android and web-based technologies)."

When using any new CSS, the question of browser support has to be addressed. This is even more of a consideration when new CSS is used for layout as with Flexbox and CSS Grid, rather than things we might consider an enhancement.

Something mindless and fun to do while you listen to podcasts.

In the late 80s and early 90s, an idiosyncratic music scene arose in the town of Stourbridge, in the West Midlands. Named grebo (after a local slang word for a scruffy layabout, taken from the dress sense of the artists), it combining punk rock guitars with electronic beats and hip-hop-influenced sampling, counted among its number bands such as The Wonder Stuff, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Pop Will Eat Itself, and, for a moment,
rivalled Britpop and Madchester/baggy as the next big sound of 90s UK indie. (SLGuardian)

You should take a minute to read @ericwbailey’s excellent article on focus states, and designing for people.

A repository of different color schemes for Google Maps aimed towards web designers and developers.

"In two weeks time, I’ll be in Seattle for An Event Apart. I’ll be giving a brand new talk. The title is The Way Of The Web (although perhaps a more accurate title would be The Layers Of The Web). Here’s the description: Do you ever get overwhelmed by the ever-changing nature of web design and development? Exhausting, isn’t it? How are you supposed to know which technologies and tools you should invest your time in? Will they stick around or will you just have to relearn everything in another few months? Join Jeremy as he takes a tour of the past, present, and future of working on the web. From the building blocks of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript through to frameworks and libraries right up to the latest and greatest Progressive Web Apps, this talk will examine our collective assumptions with a critical eye. By learning from the past, we can make sensible design decisions today to build the web of tomorrow."

Near realtime map of satellites and debris.

"Scarfolk is a quaint town in the north west of England. At first glance it appears perfectly ordinary. Neighbours chat to each other over hedges while children play in the quiet, suburban streets. Yet this provincial place has received a lot of media attention over the past five years. Rumours have surfaced claiming that the town has not progressed since 1979 and the local council's poster production points to a community that is stuck in the 1970s. It's Nice That decided to find out more about the local society and its notorious designs."

Some Very Entertaining Plastic [Internet Archive Blog] "It's been a little over 4 years since the Internet Archive started providing emulation in the browser from our software collection; millions of plays of games, utilities, and everything else that shows up on a screen have happened since then. While we continue to refine the technology (including adding Webassembly as an option for running the emulations), we also have tried to expand out to various platforms, computers, and anything else that we can, based on the work of the emulation community, especially the MAME Development Team. For a number of years, the MAME team has been moving towards emulating a class of hardware and software that, for some, stretches the bounds of what emulation can do, and we have now put up a collection of some of their efforts here at archive.org. Introducing the Handheld History Collection." [via: Rock Paper Shotgun]

Today is Damon Albarn's 50th birthday. You may know Damon from such bands as Blur and Gorillaz. Recently, Noel Gallagher has said that he wants Albarn to do a guest appearance on his next album, which isn't as odd as it might sound...

An educational tool for teaching kids about machine learning, by letting them train a computer to recognise text, pictures or numbers, and make things with it in Scratch.

Dozens of design systems and pattern libraries thoroughly analyzed.

Become a crime scene investigator and work with our Museum forensic experts to solve a murder mystery.

This article walks you through how you can develop an application locally using Kubernetes

"What if you could redesign everything? The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It's an action-oriented set of methods, mindsets and thought starters to help innovators design circular solutions that are fit for the future."

A visual way to understand CSS specificity.

A leaderboard of the top open-source static site generators. Promoting a static approach to building websites.

"In this article, we’ll take a look inside the JAMstack and see why supporters are calling it “the future of the internet”."

When we talk about “The Stack,” we no longer talk about operating systems, specific web servers, backend programming languages, or databases.

The JAMstack is not about specific technologies. It’s a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.

The Static Web: Static Site Generators and the Post-CMS paradigm. Resources for designers and developers.

headlessCMS is a leaderboard of the top Content Management Systems for JAMstack sites. Promoting a static approach to building websites.

It's good to recognize your flaws, but it's also good to recognize your skills. If there's one thing I know I'm good at, it's making kickass quesadillas. Not authentic, not fancy, not gourmet; just tasty. I mean, let's be honest: You can microwave some pre-shredded cheese on a tortilla, fold it in half, and end up with something tasty. But I'm talking really frickin' tasty here.

Use the everyday mushrooms we find in our grocery store or use them in combination with some of the more exotic varieties. Experiment and have fun - All will be good.

"Switching from Gulp to webpack is traumatic. Fear not, I’ll guide you through the process. This is a tutorial that gets you covered, code included! (Updated to webpack 4)"

"At some point in your leadership career, you’ll need to care about performance management. My first bit of advice is the hardest: don’t ever let yourself think or say the words “performance management.” This is impossible, but aspirational."

Mark Bittman and Dr. David L. Katz patiently answer pretty much every question we could think of about healthy food.

Here's how to share useful, actionable information during dev team standups so everyone collaborates to achieve the sprint goals.

"OpenType Font Variations make it possible to access multiple typefaces within a family from a single resource. Take an expedition into the typographical variety available via variable fonts"

A developer enters into the world of survey design to find out why people still think that image looks blurry.

Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing systems and institutions. That can be a little bit hard to understand if we only judge tech as a set…

Linear gradients often have hard edges where they start and/or end. We can avoid those by controlling the color mix with easing functions.

A directory of digital freelancers in Oxfordshire

Monzo is a bank that makes life easier, not harder.

All you need to know about webpack 4, the next generation module bundler. From zero configuration to production mode, this post is a living, breathing introduction to webpack 4.

http://build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-rubiks-contraption.html http://blog.cactus.zone/

"Let’s face it, most companies have an incident response plan (IRP) sitting somewhere that was based on some template that is on the Internet or provided by some consulting service and was purely a compliance and/or audit activity. This plan was most likely written to “check the box,” but does not reflect reality nor would it most likely be effective when (not if!) you have an incident.

So, how do you create an effective incident response plan that can actually be used to guide incident response?"

"It's bad. But how bad?"

"Happy International Women's Day! Celebrate with our annual list of 10 women in title design that you should know about."

Excellent cartoon about love, nanobots, and the future.

Small WYSIWYG text editor for web, with no dependencies. 1.38kB minified and gzipped.

LCD screens from old games.

How to Create a React app from scratch using Webpack 4

The paintings of artist Matt Adrian (The Mincing Mockingbird).