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CSS Grid is here and I bet you also heard that it's a game changer that could once more completely change the way we approach web layout. A New Kid on the Block The new layout module is a great achievement for all people involved in the process and also the fast implementati...

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for July 22nd - 28th, 2017. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-07-28.html This week features a brief interview with Johannes Ernst (http://upon2020.com/) recorded at IndieWeb Summit 2017. You can find all of my audio editions here: https://martymcgui.re/tag/this-week-indieweb-podcast/ Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project https://100.aaronparecki.com: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11 Thanks to everyone in the #indieweb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for July 15th - 21st, 2017. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-07-21.html This week features a brief interview with Lillian Karabaic (http://anomalily.net/) recorded at IndieWeb Summit 2017. You can find all of my audio editions here: https://martymcgui.re/tag/this-week-indieweb-podcast/ Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project https://100.aaronparecki.com: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11 Thanks to everyone in the #indieweb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!

Once more, net neutrality is under attack. This founding principle of the open web guarantees that all data packages are treated equally – regardless of content or the amount of money you pay your service provider. Net neutrality keeps the internet open and uncensored and by that fosters freedom of speech and an exchange of ideas.

Today, 12 July, is the internet-wide day of action to save net neutrality. And we all have a voice and a responsibility to stop this threat to the open web.

So join the protest by adding an alert to your site, change your avatar, spread the word on social media, or do what you do best to fight for net neutrality. To learn more, visit battleforthenet.com or read more about why the 12 July protest to protect net neutrality matters.

We need to stop this together. We are team internet.

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Thanks to @webrocker for the reminder!

When we design and build things for the web, it’s tempting to fall into the trap of doing things the We-have-always-done-it-that-way™. And this doesn't necessarily have to be our fault alone. We are all part of project teams and work environments that shape our perception of...

An extra-long, Summit-packed audio edition of This Week in the IndieWeb for June 24th - 30th, 2017. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-06-30.html You can find all of my audio editions here: https://martymcgui.re/tag/this-week-indieweb-podcast/ You can subscribe with your favorite podcast app [on huffduffer](https://huffduffer.com/tags/this+week+in+indieweb). Music from Aaron Parecki 100DaysOfMusic project Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, Day 11, and Day 85 - Suit. https://100.aaronparecki.com/ Also includes music from Nightcore- 867-5309 / Jenny by Aoki Lapis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRRCs2OWYWI Thanks to everyone in the #indieweb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!

I've just been listening to the new Linkin Park album. The first thing that jumped out at me was that, in keeping with previous Linkin Park albums, it is not in fact an album by Nasum. This appears to have caused disappointment among their audience, and rightly so. In one ca...

Despite the proclaimed death of RSS I know a lot of people who still love to read their feeds on a daily basis. So feeds are definitely here to stay and providing your readers with different ways of consuming your content is also an important part of a website, especially if...

This is the second article of a two-part series on digital citizenship. Part one was all about online privacy and how to protect it, this second part focuses on how we can build and promote tools that enable an open, independent, and resilient web. “I need your clothes, your...

Yes, HTML is broken (see title ↑). Anyone who has used HTML on a big project knows it. Just the other day, I went to code a submit button for a form. Should be pretty straightforward. Well how come this is what I wrote, then? <table> <td> <a class="submi...

This is the first article of a two-part series on digital citizenship. Part one is about online privacy and how to protect it, the second part focuses on how we can build and promote tools that enable an open, independent, and resilient web. Invasion of the Data Snatchers Gl...

As we are moving from pages to patterns when creating and documenting websites and other digital design systems, pattern libraries are becoming increasingly popular. Ethan Marcotte, who famously coined the term responsive web design, recently published a nice little piece ab...

Before Hitler set about exterminating Jewish people, he practiced on the disabled. The Aktion T4 programme was particularly fond of administering "involuntary euthanasia" to children. Parents were tricked into relinquishing their little ones with the promise that they would ...

Today, I added a basic weighted search to this site. You can find it here and in the footer below. Providing a search functionality is one of the pillars of an IndieWeb site, mainly because it offers improved access to the content you create and own on your site. But: Search...

Tantek Çelik wrote a post in 2015 called “js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.”. It was about a fundamental problem regarding sites that depend on JavaScript for rendering content: Indexability. Although search engines got much much better at indexing JS, it still remai...

It’s that time of year when most people publish their „books I have read“ articles. Tim for example, and also Jeremy. I for myself am what you could call a book taster. There are a lot of books on my shelves that I started reading but somehow never finished. But this year th...

In May 2016, I flipped the switch for the redesign of this site. My last site was never updated once it was online, so I wanted to do things differently this time. Inspired by numerous people who use their web presence to share and promote their thoughts and ideas, I decided...

2016 has not been an exemplary year in some ways. What with the anti-intellectualism and fascism and kleptocracy and all. And you know what? I'm not completely convinced everything's going to be okay again when the clock strikes twelve on New Year's Eve. I'm not convinced th...

Once again, beyond tellerrand, a great conference about design, development, and all things web, took place in the cold November air of Berlin. After walking over from Bahnhof Friedrichstraße to the Admiralspalast, an historical theater opened in 1910, where the spirit of th...

You spend more time contemplating and discussing code than you do writing it. You spend more time thinking about how the end product affects users than you do about how pleasurable it is for you to write its code. You think in terms of relationships and systems, not just th...