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The average worker is 5x more productive than they were 30 years ago, but wages have been basically flat. In the last 10 years, the federal minimum wage has not risen, effectively …

and the word "Brutalism" originally referred to the material, béton brut (poured concrete), not a philosophy of being brutal.

To help clarify why this is a big deal, I'd like to share why I've been so excited about this project... [tl;dr] - This is the first tool I'm aware of that actually allows you to g…

I've also had the experience of getting "suspicious looks" while walking in suburbia. I was once stopped and questioned by a police cruiser because I was walking on a well lit stre…

Comic Sans does serve one good purpose; it's a dyslexia-friendly typeface. It's nice that Comic Neue preserves some of the letter "hints" (ie. the "b" and "d" glyphs have slightly …

Amazing. Under "other states", I noticed a few minor engagements in "CA". I wondered if I had read that right - California? This ended up bringing me to an article[1] about Califor…

melt equal parts syntactic sugar and water...

While very well executed, the basic idea of delivering a document that doesn't make sense without javascript just seems wrong to me. I've always thought the real promise of respons…

I've seen these blimps in NYC, Boston, and Chicago to name a few places that are notably far from Akron and Miami. I've always wondered - I'd love to know if the blimps are flown f…

I agree that it's a bad tool in many ways, but even if the language (and environments) were beautiful, the problem at hand is often the way that people use it. In this case, a poor…

I usually agree with this, usually because we often see things like "icons/logos drawn in pure css", which implies someone maybe thought it was a good idea to actually use in a pro…

This is what I believe is the single biggest advantage TX holds over NYC. It's hard to underestimate the power the Historic Districts Council and Municipal Art Society have over th…

I agree, but the caveat for any city/town where you can get by without a car is "affordable". full disclosure: I've lived in NYC without a car for 10 years, but grew up in Ohio com…

I wouldn't call it pragmatic, but alienating is definitely the right word. There are few (affordable) places in America right now that you can live without complete car dependence.…

This article is missing an image of an old map with red lines connecting Italy, Guam, Hawaii, and Chicago.

Every regex seems like a clever trick.

The looks like a joy to write, and a nightmare to maintain. I may be old fashioned, but I still see content, style, and behavior as best expressed as separate concerns in source.

"Praise Publicly, Criticize Privately" This point got me thinking. Public criticism of specific individuals is not something I ever to publicly, but I have been all too quick to co…

You can either repeat yourself by using "@extend %mypattern" in Sass using this methodology, or repeat yourself in the DOM with ".mypattern" in the OOCSS approach. Both are elegant…

People keep having few (if any) alternatives for fast, reliable service providers.

"Choosing a typeface is not typography" I really appreciated this point. Too often people confuse knowledge of fonts with typographic knowledge or skill. Understanding how to set t…

This looks like absolutely positioned bits of text with unicode glyphs inside divs with a box shadow and border radius. Am I missing something? Not that the execution or idea are b…

It's not just an argument of preference when programmers suggest not using tables for layout - it's about using a best practice and a standard instead of an old hack that is a habi…

I'm not sure why refactoring a table layout (an old html layout hack) into something more semantically correct and accessible is considered an "attack".

This is a great idea; an idea good enough to invest the time to create your own design and CSS instead of using bootstrap out of the box. One step at a time, I guess. With that sai…