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Thursday, November 8th, 2018

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This is very, very good news. Following on from the recent announcement that a huge swathe of Flickr photos would soon be deleted, there’s now an update: any photos that are Creative Commons licensed won’t be deleted after all. Phew!

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I wonder if I can get a refund for that pro account I just bought last week to keep my Creative Commons licensed Flickr pictures online.

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Tuesday, November 6th, 2018

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You could create components that strike the perfect balance between reuse and context sensitivity. But defining the components of your design system is just the first step. It has to make its way into the product. If it doesn’t, a design system is like a language with no extant literature or seminal texts.

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Marissa Christy outlines the reasons why your design system might struggle:

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+ +Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts | Flickr Blog + +

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I’ve got a lot of photos on Flickr (even though I don’t use it directly much these days) and I’ve paid up for a pro account to protect those photos, but I’m very worried about this:

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Beginning January 8, 2019, Free accounts will be limited to 1,000 photos and videos.

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That in itself is fine, but any existing non-pro accounts with more than 1000 photos will have older photos deleted until the total comes down to 1000. This means that anyone linking to those photos (or embedding them in blog posts or articles) will have broken links and images.

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Tears in the rain.

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2018

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Friday, November 2nd, 2018

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This instance of collective action from inside a tech company is important, not just for the specifics of Google, but in acting as an example to workers in other companies.

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And of all the demands, this is the one that could have the biggest effect in the US tech world:

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An end to Forced Arbitration.

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Tuesday, October 30th, 2018

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Monday, October 29th, 2018

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There’s a theory that you can cure this by following standards, except there are more “standards” than there are things computers can actually do, and these standards are all variously improved and maligned by the personal preferences of the people coding them, so no collection of code has ever made it into the real world without doing a few dozen identical things a few dozen not even remotely similar ways. The first few weeks of any job are just figuring out how a program works even if you’re familiar with every single language, framework, and standard that’s involved, because standards are unicorns.

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Sunday, October 28th, 2018

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+ +Phil Nash and Jeremy Keith Save the Safari Video Playback Day + +

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I love this example of paying it forward:

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Harry divides his web performance work into three categories:

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I feel like a lot of businesses are still unsure where to even start when it comes to performance monitoring, and as such, they never do. By demystifying it and breaking it down into three clear categories, each with their own distinct time, place, and purpose, it immediately takes a lot of the effort away from them: rather than worrying what their strategy should be, they now simply need to ask ‘Do we have one?’

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Friday, October 26th, 2018

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Thursday, October 25th, 2018

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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

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