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New Zealand bird identification

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A frankly excellent website for identifying bird species, particularly useful if you're like me and trying to do so years after having seen them 😁 It's a really neat interface that makes narrowing …

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A New Mozilla [#4]

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Mozilla's new logo, for me, is a rebrand done extremely well. The moment I saw the design the concept struck me as clever, appropriate and intelligent. Styling the "ill" part of their name to mimic …

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New Year, New Phone? Compare the Camera First

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Currently, both myself and my partner are looking into replacing our mobile phones (her slightly more urgently). As a result, we're both quite deep in the mire of tech reviews, contract comparisons …

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A new accessibility icon

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The Accessible Icon Project are an interesting group of designers and disability advocates that have developed an alternative, modernised take on the standard "disabled access" icon. The result is …

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Git push to new repository

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Super useful walkthrough on taking a branch from one repository and publishing it to another repository entirely (great for creating test repos or stripped-down example repos for bug …

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A better new tab page

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A potentially useful tool for making your browser's new tab page a lot more productive (even if it isn't quite what I …

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Cosmic Sans: The New Greatest Font!

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April Fools has been a bit bland this year. Google's far too literal mic drop aside, most have been played out reruns of previous gags or distinctly predicable. The US has gone in for the election, …

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What's new in WCAG 2.2

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A complete overview of the most recent WCAG 2.2 spec as it enters RC status, including quick overviews on the most common solutions to meet each new success …

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The perfect New Yorker caption for the social web

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I didn't know that people try to come up with "perfect New Yorker captions", sentences that can be added to any New Yorker cartoon and just work, but it's a fun idea. Frank's modern take is a …

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New success criteria in WCAG 2.2

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A thorough overview of the new success criteria added (and removed) in WCAG 2.2, including clear guidance on how to test and pass each …

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New Content Disabled by Default on Craft CMS

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I frequently save a draft post in Craft only to realise it's set as live. Luckily, for me that doesn't massively matter as it's all API driven, but still it's nice to be able to change the default.

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Multicoloured text highlighting in cSS

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A clever UX idea discovered on Pink News: each paragraph of text has a different highlight colour, so as you select parts of an article to copy elsewhere it reveals the LGBTQA+ flag. They're using …

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Note-taking apps don't make us smarter

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A surface-level look at the world of note-taking apps, what the impact of "AI" may be, and why the much-lauded benefits of these tools never really seem to materialise. Ironically, I found the …

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The Great iWall

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Well that's that then. The great legal firewall has descended and the BBC's iPlayer service is now firmly on the other side. As of today, you can no longer watch catch-up TV for free in the UK; …

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A Gap in Time [#25]

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My last post was on the 8th. Today is the 20th. Do you see a little problem there? In short: 12 days are longer than a week. Sad …

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The End of "Someone"

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I don’t think we have any clue about how disruptive this shift is going to be.There are people and organizations that are racing to break the fabric of community that we all …

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@property

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Looks like CSS is getting extensibility built-in with a new @property element (works like @media – also looks like we're getting CSS.registerProperty() in JavaScript …

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Mailbrew email digests (affiliate link)

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Disclaimer: The title link is an affiliate link, which means I get credit if you use it to sign up. Not really why I made this post, but figured why not …

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We are not astronomers

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I've chopped out the middle here, but I really like this sentiment from Seth on the nature of media, control, and the illusion of …

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John Oliver's Back in the UK, Free and Legal!

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I am a huge fan of the ever insightful talk show Last Week Tonight, hosted by John Oliver. I love the directness of the opinion pieces, agree with many of the stances taken and largely find the …

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Duping the Genie [#16]

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You find yourself in a magical cave, holding an old oil lamp, spilling out of which is a magical Genie. You know the drill: you have three wishes and you cannot request …

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That Anti-Diversity Googler & Self Introspection [#32]

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Standard workday, standard work lunch catching up on RSS feeds. Of course, quite a few of them are discussing the leaked "Anti-Diversity" manifesto from the, now infamous, ex-Google employee (name …