Adactio: Links Hyperlinks hand-picked by Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England. en https://adactio.com/links/ jeremy@adactio.com (Jeremy Keith) jeremy@adactio.com (Jeremy Keith) Adactio: Links https://adactio.com/links/ https://adactio.com/images/rssbutton.gif 88 19 How the internet works? https://zerotoherocoding.com/how-the-internet-works/ A really clear introduction to the pieces of a URL by Vera, who is setting out on her career as a front-end developer.

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]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:59:00 GMT https://zerotoherocoding.com/how-the-internet-works/ internet urls structure explanation The Mob’s IT Department | Bloomberg Business http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-mob-technology-consultants-help-drug-traffickers/ You just know that this will end up being made into a film one day. It’s like a downmarket Mr. Robot.

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]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:55:21 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-mob-technology-consultants-help-drug-traffickers/ hackers crime mob belgium hacking Accessibility Meetup: role=drinks http://www.roledrinks.uk/ This Saturday afternoon—the day after FFConf—there’s an accessibility meet-up in the Caxton Arms here in Brighton with lighting talks (I’m planning to give one). ‘Twould be lovely to see you there.

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]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:11:34 GMT http://www.roledrinks.uk/ brighton accessibility a11y meetup pub talks event antoinentl/web-books-initiatives: A list of different initiatives of web books. https://github.com/antoinentl/web-books-initiatives A list of books that have been published in their entirety on the web. If you know of any others, please contribute.

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]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 16:28:36 GMT https://github.com/antoinentl/web-books-initiatives books online publishing web list reading “If it’s not curlable, it’s not on the web.” by Tantek Çelik http://tantek.com/2016/311/t3/js-dr-in-print It was fun spelunking with Tantek, digging into some digital archeology in an attempt to track down a post by Ben Ward that I remembered reading years ago.

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]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 04:33:33 GMT http://tantek.com/2016/311/t3/js-dr-in-print javascript jsdr attribution tantek benward digital preservation linkrot Typewriters in the Technical Museum in Figueres | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/sets/72157672442082324/ If you enjoyed reading Marcin’s serendipitous story on Twitter, here are the pictures to accompany it.

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]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 03:25:51 GMT https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/sets/72157672442082324/ flickr photos pictures typewriters museum keyboards technology analog Bob Baxley: Don’t Judge. Just Observe. | Design.blog https://design.blog/2016/11/03/bob-baxley-dont-judge-just-observe/

The challenge of being in tech when you’re over 40 is the challenge of constantly setting aside your expectations of how things should work, repeatedly questioning your assumptions, and constantly re-evaluating your positions. It’s the challenge of being a lifelong learner; cultivating the humility of the beginner, the passion of the practitioner, and the joy of the master. It is the challenge of not being so quick to apply old analysis, rely on outdated experience, or expect what worked before to work again.

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]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 03:16:06 GMT https://design.blog/2016/11/03/bob-baxley-dont-judge-just-observe/ technology age culture gaming youth Create a MarkDown tag - JSFiddle https://jsfiddle.net/booc0mtaco/6uc48pfy/ This is nice example of a web component that degrades gracefully—if custom elements aren’t supported, you still get the markdown content, just not converted to HTML.

<ah-markdown>
## Render some markdown!
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]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2016 05:07:25 GMT https://jsfiddle.net/booc0mtaco/6uc48pfy/ extensibleweb webcomponents customelements markdown frontend development jsfiddle code javascript html markup progressive enhancement bitsofcode | Tools for Developing Accessible Websites http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=282459d63a019df7bb8ca2e92&id=2f43d13465 Ire rounds up a bunch of tools you can use to test accessibility, from dev tools to Tenon.

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]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2016 05:03:30 GMT http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=282459d63a019df7bb8ca2e92&id=2f43d13465 accessibility a11y testing tools frontend development tenon screenreaders keyboard The Javascript Wars • cssence.com http://cssence.com/blog/2016-11-the-javascript-wars Some more food for thought, following on from Shaun’s post about HTML as the foundation of web development:

There is another building block for the web, one that is more important than HTML, CSS and JavaScript combined. It all starts with URLs. Those things uniquely identify some piece of information on the web.

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]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2016 22:20:35 GMT http://cssence.com/blog/2016-11-the-javascript-wars html javascript urls web frontend development welcome.js | booktwo.org http://booktwo.org/notebook/welcome-js/

See, view source is a human right. Since the beginning of the web, thousands, probably millions, of users have bootstrapped their way to technical understanding through exploring the way the existing web is put together. I did. You might have done. And you, we, should be able to. And more than that, we should be encouraged to. For fun, for experience, for education, for revolution.

James is right. And he’s made a script to encourage further exploration.

welcome.js adds a friendly message to the console when it’s first opened, as well as links for users to find out more about the console, and programming in general.

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]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:40:41 GMT http://booktwo.org/notebook/welcome-js/ viewsource web learning teaching console The Tragedy/Farce of the Open Web according to journalists – Baldur Bjarnason https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/web-media-tragedy/ Continuous web death.

The modern journalist is not an expert on the web. They and their colleagues have spent a large part of the last twenty-five years dismissing the open web at every stage. They are not the people you can trust to either accurately assess the web or to make usable websites. You can’t even trust them to make sensible decisions about web strategy. Just look at their damn websites!

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]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:36:37 GMT https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/web-media-tragedy/ web history journalism open doom pessimism reporting Performance and assumptions | susan jean robertson https://www.susanjeanrobertson.com/writing/performance-and-assumptions/

We all make assumptions, it’s natural and normal. But we also need to be jolted out of those assumptions on a regular basis to help us see that not everyone uses the web the way we do. I’ve talked about loving doing support for that reason, but I also love it when I’m on a slow network, it shows me how some people experience the web all the time; that’s good for me.

I’m privileged to have fast devices and fast, broadband internet, along with a lot of other privileges. Not remembering that privilege while I work and assuming that everyone is like me is, quite possibly, one of the biggest mistakes I can make.

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]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:24:34 GMT https://www.susanjeanrobertson.com/writing/performance-and-assumptions/ performance assumptions progressive enhancement javascript frontend development Why I am a web developer | Seldo.Com Blog http://seldo.com/weblog/2013/09/04/why_i_am_a_web_developer I think it’s worth revisiting this post by Laurie on a regular basis for a shot of perspective and inspiration.

The web saved my life and then built me a new one. A single living entity, it touches everything in the world and is always getting better — and I can help. I owe it so much; if I can help it out, make it better in any small way, how can I possibly refuse? And if I can make it easier for other people to help make it better, then my efforts are multiplied.

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]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2016 20:38:49 GMT http://seldo.com/weblog/2013/09/04/why_i_am_a_web_developer web sharing building making inspiration people helping Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition – Waxy.org http://waxy.org/2016/11/redesigning-waxy-2016-edition/ Andy is sticking with the indie web.

Here, I control my words. Nobody can shut this site down, run annoying ads on it, or sell it to a phone company. Nobody can tell me what I can or can’t say, and I have complete control over the way it’s displayed. Nobody except me can change the URL structure, breaking 14 years of links to content on the web.

I second that emotion.

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]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:55:32 GMT http://waxy.org/2016/11/redesigning-waxy-2016-edition/ indieweb independent publishing writing blogging redesign digital preservation waxy The New Digital School - An Alternative to Design Education by Tiago and Cláudia Pedras — Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1437234252/the-new-digital-school-an-alternative-to-design-ed You can back Tiago’s excellent New Digital School. It’s a fantastic project with the web at its heart, and I really hope it gets funded.

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]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2016 21:52:59 GMT https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1437234252/the-new-digital-school-an-alternative-to-design-ed kickstarter digital design school portugal education learning teaching What&#8217;s wrong with big data? | New Humanist https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5104/whats-wrong-with-big-data

The view that more information uncritically produces better decisions is visibly at odds with our contemporary situation.

A superb piece of research and writing by James, skewering the technological determinism that underlies the current faith in “big data.” At best, this misplaced trust is inaccurate; at worst, it is deadly.

To the algorithmic imagination, the practice of journalism and the practice of terrorism appear to be functionally identical.

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]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:43:15 GMT https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5104/whats-wrong-with-big-data algorithms bigdata reductionism analysis culture society terrorism politics chess medicine The Lost Art of HTML | shaunrashid.com http://shaunrashid.com/2016/10/31/the-lost-art-of-html/

Building a good foundation using HTML is like building a good foundation for a house. Without it, you run the risk of having to deal with issues that are difficult and expensive to fix later on.

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]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:38:13 GMT http://shaunrashid.com/2016/10/31/the-lost-art-of-html/ html markup progressive enhancement frontend development Mutating the active element - ally.js https://allyjs.io/tutorials/mutating-active-element.html Rodney has done some great research into how different browsers respond to a focusable element becoming inactive (by being made disabled, hidden, or removed).

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]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:35:36 GMT https://allyjs.io/tutorials/mutating-active-element.html browsers active inactive elements dom accessibility a11y focus frontend development The Digital Transition: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age | whitehouse.gov https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age Kori Schulman describes the archiving of social media and other online artefacts of the outgoing US president. It’s a shame that a lot of URLs will break, but I’m glad there’s going to be a public backup available.

Best of all, you can get involved:

In the interim, we’re inviting the American public – from students and data engineers, to artists and researchers – to come up with creative ways to archive this content and make it both useful and available for years to come. From Twitter bots and art projects to printed books and query tools, we’re open to it all.

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