Web Development Reading List #164: Enjoy The End Of 2016, It Wasn’t The Worst

Welcome to the last reading list of the year. I’m happy to still have you as a reader and very grateful to all the people who value and support my work. I hope you’ll be on vacation for the upcoming days or can relax a bit from your daily work. Remind to take care of yourself, and see you next year!

Concept & Design Link

• Sarah Drasner on why it’s important to properly describe and document animations in a design system¹.
• Francis Storr explains why front-end developers are Information Architects², too.

Security Link

• Matthew Bryant found a DNS vulnerability in AWS, Google Cloud, Rackspace and Digital Ocean³ which would basically allow him to take over 120.000 domains and it’s likely that other DNS providers are vulnerable as well.

Web Performance Link

• Vitaly Friedman put together a great Front-End Performance Checklist 2017⁴ for your next projects, with PDF and Apple Pages files so you can tick it off point by point.
• Sebastiaan Deckers on how to get the real performance benefit from HTTP/2⁵ by solving the Cache Invalidation problem.
• Zach Leatherman says “No @font-face syntax will ever be bulletproof, nor should it be⁶”. This is followed by Bram Stein’s “Loading Web Fonts asynchronously⁷”.

CSS/Sass Link

• Nick Salloum shows how to achieve multi-line padded text with the CSS box-decoration-break property¹⁰.

Work & Life Link

• New year’s resolutions — you know it, they’re hard to reach. James Clear on why it’s easier to use recurring systems instead of setting goals¹¹.
• Ezekiel Buchheit’s “No, I have no side code projects to show you¹²” is a great read for everyone interviewing folks for a job position.
• Jordan Scales on what he found out about using a Pomodoro timer to quantify “off” days¹³.

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Going Beyond… Link

• We like to say “2016 was the worst”, and I don’t like this. Angus Hervey shares 99 good news stories that we probably didn’t hear about in 2016¹⁶. Don’t let you be fooled by the all negative news and instead embrace the good things that happened as well. Despite some bad news, 2016 was quite a good year. Enjoy its last days!
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published a first draft guide for how tech can achieve ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) design¹⁷.

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Footnotes Link

1. 1 https://24ways.org/2016/animation-in-design-systems/
2. 2 https://24ways.org/2016/front-end-developers-are-information-architects-too/
3. 3 https://thehackerblog.com/the-orphaned-internet-taking-over-120k-domains-via-a-dns-vulnerability-in-aws-google-cloud-rackspace-and-digital-ocean/index.html
4. 4 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/12/front-end-performance-checklist-2017-pdf-pages/
5. 5 http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2016/cache-digests-http2-server-push/
6. 6 http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2016/no-font-face-bulletproof-syntax/
7. 7 http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2016/loading-web-fonts-asynchronously/
8. 8 https://24ways.org/2016/animation-in-design-systems/
9. 9 https://24ways.org/2016/animation-in-design-systems/
10. 10 http://callmenick.com/post/multi-line-padded-text-css-box-decoration-break
11. 11 http://jamesclear.com/goals-systems
12. 12 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-have-side-code-projects-show-you-ezekiel-buchheit
13. 13 https://medium.com/@jdan/quantifying-my-off-days-27e85f5bc157
14. 14 http://jamesclear.com/goals-systems
15. 15 http://jamesclear.com/goals-systems
16. 16 https://medium.com/@angushervey/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823
17. 17 https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/ieee-puts-out-a-first-draft-guide-for-how-tech-can-achieve-ethical-ai-design/
18. 18 https://wdrl.info/donate
19. 19 https://wdrl.info/costs/

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