Excellent post from Nathan Curtis. You need to read this:
A design system’s value is realized when products ship features using parts from the system.
The Best Of The Internets
A Design System isn’t a Project. It’s a Product, Serving Products.
Atomic Classification
We’ve run into similar issues with Pattern Lab’s enforced groupings on a large client project. Some just didn’t make sense, causing a little confusion for our team, but way more confusion for the client’s team. It added way more cognitive overhead than was really necessary for the project. The tool made testing components easy, but we eventually ended up leaving some buckets empty.
The very latest clearfix reloaded
Thierry Koblentz’s simplified, modern float clearing solution.
Short note on use of alt=“” and the title attribute
Steve answers the question of whether
results in the desired outcome.
10 pro tips for managing the performance of your third-party scripts
There is some excellent advice in this piece. In particular, #1—Calculate its ROI—is probably the most important.
Run Express server in your browser
Running Express within a Service Worker is either brilliant or insane. Possibly both.
Which Input When?
An excellent round-up of input types and when you should use each.
Choosing between min-width and max-width media queries
Stephen Hay answers the age-old question of which type of media query you should use.
The Ultimate Section 508 Guide for Students: Content for Everyone
I don’t know about “ultimate”, but this is a good overview of why accessibility matters and what you need to know about Section 508.
Vorlon Extension
Vorlon.js is a pretty neat nodejs-based remote debugging tool from some of my colleagues at Microsoft. And now it’s available as a browser extension!