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 Does Google execute JavaScript? | Stephan Boyer https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/122/does-google-execute-javascript

Google may or may not decide to run your JavaScript, and you don’t want your business to depend on its particular inclination of the day. Do server-side/universal/isomorphic rendering just to be safe.

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]]> Tue, 03 Jan 2017 14:28:47 GMT https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/122/does-google-execute-javascript google javascript parsing executing seo search frontend development rendering ajax Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing by Manton Reece — Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manton/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing Here’s an interesting Kickstarter project: a book about owning your notes (and syndicating them to Twitter) to complement the forthcoming micro.blog service.

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]]> Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:10:04 GMT https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manton/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing indieweb posse notes microblogging kickstarter publishing book Exciting times: 2017 and the web - Tales of a Developer Advocate by Paul Kinlan https://paul.kinlan.me/2017-exciting-times/ Paul takes a look at the year ahead on the web and likes what he sees. There’s plenty of new browser features and APIs of course, but more interesting:

The web reaching more people as they come online with Mobile. There is still a huge amount of potential and growth in India, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, all of Africa. You name it, mobile is growing massively still and the web is accessible on all of these devices.

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]]> Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:06:28 GMT https://paul.kinlan.me/2017-exciting-times/ 2017 browsers future apis mobile web frontend development Mercury by Postlight https://mercury.postlight.com/ Readability is back, but now it’s called Mercury.

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]]> Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:16:41 GMT https://mercury.postlight.com/ mercury readability service api scraping semantics articles reading text In Praise of On Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith http://www.jamesdrever.co.uk/blog/in-praise-of-on-resilient-web-design-by-jeremy-keith/ I’m really touched—and honoured—that my book could have this effect.

It made me fall back in love with the web and with making things for the web.

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]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2017 15:29:51 GMT http://www.jamesdrever.co.uk/blog/in-praise-of-on-resilient-web-design-by-jeremy-keith/ resilientwebdesign book frontend development tools approaches progressive enhancement Typography Wars: Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/quotation-mark-wars/511766/ Glenn Fleishman on the war of attrition between primes and quotation marks on the web.

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]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2017 15:09:35 GMT https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/quotation-mark-wars/511766/ typography quotes quotation punctuation unicode characters cms Two Irish Girls Who Made It to New York - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/aliens-of-extraordinary-and-ordinary-ability.html?emc=eta1 Maeve Higgins must’ve been back in Cobh (our hometown) at the same time this Christmas. Here she tells the story of Annie Moore, the first person to enter the doors at Ellis Island.

I stood on the darkening quay side in Cobh on Christmas Eve, and looked at a statue of Annie there. She seems small and capable, her hands lightly resting on her little brothers’ shoulders, gazing back at a country she would never see again. An Irish naval ship had returned to the harbor earlier that week from its mission off the Mediterranean coast, a mission that has rescued 15,000 people from the sea since May 2015, though 2016 was still the deadliest one for migrants crossing the Mediterranean since World War II.

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]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2017 15:02:15 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/aliens-of-extraordinary-and-ordinary-ability.html?emc=eta1 cobh ireland immigration newyork america refugee nytimes history Front-end Style Guides by Anna Debenham http://www.maban.co.uk/projects/front-end-style-guides/ Anna has just published a lovely new version of her excellent little book on pattern libraries. EPUB, MOBI, and PDF versions are yours for a mere $8.

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]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2017 15:00:42 GMT http://www.maban.co.uk/projects/front-end-style-guides/ styleguides book publishing writing patterns libraries frontend development Data on the Web Best Practices https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/

This document provides Best Practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web designed to help support a self-sustaining ecosystem. Data should be discoverable and understandable by humans and machines.

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]]> Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:42:16 GMT https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/ data w3c apis metadata interoperability formats Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life, now available for pre-order | Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird https://speedbird.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/radical-technologies-the-design-of-everyday-life/ Adam Greenfield’s new book is almost here at last, and it sounds like it has pivoted into quite an interesting beast.

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]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:23:52 GMT https://speedbird.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/radical-technologies-the-design-of-everyday-life/ book publishing technology design ethics writing Is Children of Men 2016’s Most Relevant Film? — Vulture http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-c-v-r.html Ten years on from Afonso Cuarón’s masterpiece.

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]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:17:27 GMT http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-c-v-r.html childrenofmen film movie dystopia sci-fi sciencefiction politics What you need to know about using VPN in the UK – By Andy Parker http://byandyparker.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-using-vpn-in-the-uk/ If you’re prepping your defences against the snooper’s charter (and you/I should be), Andy recommend using NordVPN.

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]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:14:43 GMT http://byandyparker.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-using-vpn-in-the-uk/ vpn snooperscharter security ipbill network privacy Google Noto Fonts https://www.google.com/get/noto/ Google’s Noto (short for no-tofu; tofu being the rectangle of unicode sadness) is certainly ambitious. It has glyphs from pretty much every known alphabet …including Ogham and Linear B!

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]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2016 21:28:55 GMT https://www.google.com/get/noto/ noto fonts glyphs alphabets type typography characters typeface letters languages google Hyper text. — Ethan Marcotte https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/hyper-text/ Ethan looks back on Mandy’s talk from dConstruct 2014 which is more relevant than ever.

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]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:38:34 GMT https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/hyper-text/ hypertext twitter politics activism action communication journalism SF Mistressworks | women science fiction writers https://sfmistressworks.wordpress.com/ Reviews of twentieth century science fiction novels and anthologies by women writers.

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]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:35:20 GMT https://sfmistressworks.wordpress.com/ sci-fi sciencefiction writing books reviews How a Couple of Guys Built the Most Ambitious Alien Outreach Project Ever | Science | Smithsonian http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-couple-guys-built-most-ambitious-alien-outreach-project-ever-180960473/

One might think sending messages to other stars would be a massive, expensive job. No. It isn’t. The Cosmic Call was essentially a crowdfunded hobby project.

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]]> Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:29:45 GMT http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-couple-guys-built-most-ambitious-alien-outreach-project-ever-180960473/ seti meti radio astronomy space transmission communication extraterrestrial message broadcast telescopes Enigma-E http://cryptomuseum.com/kits/enigma/index.htm An Enigma machine of one’s own.

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]]> Mon, 26 Dec 2016 15:48:23 GMT http://cryptomuseum.com/kits/enigma/index.htm enigma encryption codebreaking cryptography history kit Rafaël Rozendaal - Formal characteristics of the browser http://www.newrafael.com/formal-characteristics-of-the-browser/ I really like this list of observations (Vasilis pointed it my way). I feel like it encapsulates some of what I was talking about in chapter two of Resilient Web Design. The only point I’d take issue with now is the very last one.

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]]> Mon, 26 Dec 2016 15:34:03 GMT http://www.newrafael.com/formal-characteristics-of-the-browser/ browsers web design media composition interaction High Performance Browser Networking (O’Reilly) https://hpbn.co/ Did you know that Ilya’s book was available in its entirety online? I didn’t. But now that I do, I think it’s time I got stuck in and tried to understand the low-level underpinnings of the internet and the web.

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]]> Mon, 26 Dec 2016 15:30:55 GMT https://hpbn.co/ book publishing networking browsers internet web technology performance Megatelescope releases its first image: Physics Today: Vol 69, No 12 http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.3395 A lovely piece of design fiction imagining a project where asteroids are shaped and polished into just the right configuration to form part of an enormous solar-system wide optical telescope.

Once they are deployed in space, a celestial spiderweb of crisscrossed laser beams can push around clouds of those microscopic optical sensors to desired locations.

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