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a post by Tantek Çelik

Teach to what the hand can hold

Love to what the heart is open to receiving

The first of these was perhaps the most impactful summary saying from my teachers during my 2017 #ytt200 yoga teacher training @YogaFlowSF. The second is my abstracting & re-applying beyond.

The first was spoken in the c…

Last year, I fell in love with Diana Smith’s stunning CSS paintings: Francine, Vignes, and Zigario. (I loved them so much, I asked her to speak at XOXO’s Art+Code event last year.)
This stunning illustration by @cyanharlow is pure HTML/CSS. Every element was typed by hand, drawing with only a te…

I’ve been seeing more tweets lately—particularly from Google Chrome developer Alex Russell—that the web is dying.
I disagree.
The web is a mess. Modern “best practices” are creating a slow, obnoxious experience for users. There a few big, influential companies who have a vested interest in subverting the web or creating a walled garden.
But that’s to say nothing of the platform itself.
The web platform, this beautiful thing that we build sites and apps on, is alive and thriving.

Web communities started small, and many began with purpose. They radiated out from a single source, spread through close-knit circles and pre-viral word of mouth. We may have large social network behemoths that loom over the landscape and dominate the market these days, but they are a far more uniform and manufactured experience, one that’s …

How to defeat websites that block your ability to paste in Firefox by Peter Rukavina

You know those super-annoying websites–yes, Aeroplan, I’m talking about you–that hijack your ability to paste values into password?
In Firefox, at least, you can defeat this hijacking, for all sites, by: Enter about:config in your Firefox address bar. Search for dom.event.clipboardevents.enabl…