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Email Verification
Analyze and verify your email list before you send your campaign in order to improve deliverability.
CSS Framework to Help Enforce Accessibility
A good argument on why visual buttons should be button elements. Those in need of AT, like screen readers, need the system to read the content correctly. They can only do this if developers are using the correct semantics.
OAuth Has Ruined Everything
Discussion on OAuth and Persona — Mozilla’s authentication protocol that could have resolved, or will one day resolve (fingers crossed), current OAuth issues.
Open Source: Billions Upon Billions Of Free
Open Source projects, such as Linux and Apache, amount to billions of lines of code that are worth billions of dollars.
Rising and Falling Buzzwords
The semantics used in tech field job listings are constantly changing. Here is a list of terms that are rising and falling in popularity.
Design is Capitalism
Jennifer Daniel talks about the design world and how, instead of patting ourselves on the back, we should be looking at the social sector to see how to find solutions for our country’s real problems.
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design
A guide to IDEO’s process of designing with people in mind. Includes design methods to help create a more effective work flow.