In the light of increased racial sensitivity, leading software companies such as Red Hat are reconsidering the inclusion of controversial jargon, such as “master/slave” and “whitelist/blacklist” in software systems, while others have already done so for years.
Reader's Corner No. 98: Law Rules Oxford Comma Necessary, None of My Projects Want to be SPA's, and Designing a Font Based On Old Handwriting
April 11
We're covering a wide variety of topics in this edition! Read on to keep up with new grammar rules, the pace of change in web development, and learn how to transform old cursive handwriting into a digital font.
Reader's Corner No. 96: Under the Hood of Password Managers, OpenStreetMap as Google Maps Alternative, and "Unhackable" Blockchains Now Getting Hacked
February 21
If you've ever been curious about how password managers work, thought about switching from the paid Google Maps API to an alternative service, or have been suspicious of cryptocurrency security...this is the Reader's Corner for you!
Reader’s Corner No. 94: Why CAPTCHA Has Gotten So Difficult, Evan You's Preview of Vue.js 3.0, and The Power of a Good Science Illustration
February 07
Why CAPTCHA has gotten so difficult (interesting read!), a preview of Vue.js 3.0 by Evan You, and an in-depth interview with the senior graphics editor behind a popular American science magazine.
Reader's Corner No 88: Modernizing Web Playback UI, Japan Ends 50-Year Pager Service, and Idiots with Drones Shut Down UK Airport
December 20
Top news in Tech: Netflix's process behind modernizing their web playback UI, Japan is finally ending their 50-year pager service, and idiots with drones have shut down the UK's second largest airport.
Reader's Corner No. 87: Gutenberg and the Future of Wordpress, RAID in Project Management, and the Shadow DOM
December 14
We've got some last minute articles for you to take a look at to finish off the work week! Find out what changes the Gutenberg editor will be bringing to Wordpress in the future, see this acronym designed to simplify some basic concepts within the context of project management, and learn what the Shadow DOM is (hint: it stands for Document Object Model).
Reader’s Corner No. 78: How to Build a Low-Tech Website, 11 Great Examples of Ecommerce Nav, and the Next Iteration of Vue.js
October 11
Our featured article of the day is a how-to guide on energy efficient, low-tech web design. Then a great depiction of the exceptional navigational designs of various e-commerce websites, and lastly a sneak peek of what’s coming in the next major version of Vue.