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Yep.

Progressive enhancement focuses on the entire customer experience by continually looking forward to embrace improvements vs looking backward to degrade them.

I love, love, love this talk from Niels Leenheer at Frontend NE. He covers TV browsers, game consoles, handheld consoles, e-readers, and VR headsets and talks about what we can, can’t, and should try to do to accommodate them.

You can also watch Niels give this talk on YouTube.

This is a nice overview of where you should be spending your mobile device testing time if you’re clueless about where to begin. Obviously it skews toward BrowserStack’s offerings, but it’s a pretty solid list of devices. It doesn’t touch on browsers though, which means Opera is a glaring omission.

Here’s Jeffrey’s introduction to the 2016 10k Apart contest. Did you know it’s An Event Apart’s 10 year anniversary? How cool is that?!

Here’s a little bit of an introduction to the 2016 10k Apart contest from yours truly.

I’m so excited about this new contest!

The Challenge? Build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10kB and works without JavaScript.

If you can, there’s big money waiting for you!

PS - I’ll be writing up the build process for the site in the coming weeks.

I love this overview of handy column-busting CSS options.

I’m learning more and more about Service Workers every day…

Edge 14 is out. I’m so proud of my colleagues working on this browser. My favorite bit? The focus on accessibility (and the 100% score on HTML5Accessibility’s browser benchmark to back it up).

I loved taking this course as part of my job training at Microsoft and I’m so excited that they’ve made it public. I learned a ton and I’m sure you will too:

In this course, you’ll deepen your understanding of unconscious biases, how they influence behavior, and how they impact us all. You’ll also learn numerous actions you can take to help counter bias in your own work environment.