FeedCity

This week on Core Intuition we follow up on Apple news, then discuss the sale of Unread and all the new activity around RSS apps and services. It makes a good complement to some of my recent posts on microblogging.

Maybe I do need a day phone and a night phone. In the evenings I’ll use the too-big-for-pockets iPhone 6 Plus, and when leaving the house I’ll take… the 3.5-inch iPhone 4S. The future is on the extremes.

Brent Simmons points to my post on microblogs and asks: "Is the web we lost gone forever? Was it a brief golden age before the rise of Facebook and Twitter and The Algorithms of Engagement?" But he quickly follows with an alternate view: that it’s a blip and we’ll get ba...

Made it down to Houndstooth for Cafe Bedouins for the first time in months, maybe all year. Austin is getting a serious rain tonight, but it let up a little for the drive.

Great post by Gus Mueller on losing your way in a project: "Maybe you've been making foundational changes to your app. You've been spending time cleaning up your code, rewriting those hacks you've been wanting to fix for years now. Or you're targeting a new SDK and there'...

I should stop writing this blog post complaining about people who complain about U2. Lots of real work to do.

“If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.” — @notch on leaving Mojang

I’m working on a new project around timelines and microblogs. It consumes RSS feeds, so I’ve been wondering how strict to be when accepting posts. What does microblog mean, anyway? Wikipedia defines it this way: "Microblogging is a broadcast medium that exists in the form...

Fixed the RSS feeds. Turns out they were returning valid RSS but with an HTTP 404 header. After fighting with mod_rewrite, I ended up hacking the fix into WordPress.

Still thinking about yesterday’s iPhone 6 and Apple Watch event. Daniel and I recorded our first thoughts on a special episode of Core Intuition yesterday.

Federico Viticci has the exclusive on Transmit coming to iOS:

"Considering the old limitations of iOS for inter-app communication and file management, using the Transmit extension feels like a major breakthrough and exactly the kind of experience that the app was meant to be on an iPhone and iPad."

While traveling this summer, I used Panic’s Prompt to download and rename files on the Core Intuition web server. It’s going to be great to also have Transmit’s UI in my pocket.

Learning curve with Ember.js is a little greater than I thought at first. Not sure I’m doing everything “correctly”, but getting the hang of it. Very cool framework.

Note: This article is a deconstruction of a post by Paul Boag called I don’t care if homosexuality is a sin. I recommend you read it unannotated first. Paul "agonized over writing this post", so you owe him that. I feel I have a duty to address Paul's post as an atheist, not...

Practical ARIA Examples

I have written a book about web application accessibility using WAI-ARIA for Smashing Magazine — the first of its kind. This popular page hosts all of the examples from the book and more.

REVENGE.CSS

Revenge.css is a CSS bookmarklet that reports bad html using pseudo content. If the page you use it with has malformed links, deprecated attributes, <div>s inside inline elements, inaccessible buttons, badly nested sections or other errors, you'll see some ugly, pink errors written in nobody's favourite font: Comic Sans.

Paragrabbr

I use Paragrabbr a lot. It's a lorem ipsum generator I wrote in AngularJS which includes special punctuation — like em dashes — and phrasing elements like <a>, <strong> and even <kbd>. Helps you get your type design detail right.

Auticons Icon Font

Auticons is an icon font and CSS set that harnesses the awesome power of attribute selectors. It places resolution independent icons before or after any hyperlink with an href that matches a certain, expected pattern. In other words, it's an automatic icon font.

Squib Font

The name Squib comes from "Square" and "Slab". Squib supports a total of 165 characters, including all the basic punctuation characters and common Western European accents. It also has an eszett!

Hi everybody! I've just done a lot of cocaine on the company expense account and I want to talk to you about navigational action controls called "hyperlinks" and how to design them into your enterprise-level web application portfolio. YEEEHAWWW. What is a hyperlink? Back in ...

In case you weren't already aware, I wrote a book. This is an unusual book since it is a whole technical book dedicated to making web applications accessible. Want to understand how to make dynamic, interactive applications that don't alienate and annoy folks? Using WAI-ARIA...