In the 1950s, Robert Moses bulldozed a swath of the South Bronx to build the Cross Bronx Expressway, displacing an estimated 60,000 residents and gutting one of the most economically diverse urban neighborhoods in the country. The logic of the time was efficiency: move cars faster. By the time the…

Today in Tedium: I think the thing I’ve realized recently is that it’s been so long since we’ve had a fully open online culture that we haven’t really talked about how that is different from what came before, and why it’s something people might want. The reaction when the fediverse, particularly…

Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100. Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19,…

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When an editor at Vulture asked me if I had any ideas for interviews to accompany their list of the 100 hardest videogame levels, I immediately thought of Bennett Foddy. I interviewed him years earlier for the A.V. Club (RIP) as part of a series documenting the creation of pivotal indie games. He…

Background Note: I rarely feel the need to add words of introduction to my essays, but this one has deep personal significance for me—far more than anything I’ve published lately—so I feel some words of explanation might be appropriate. First, I describe here a time in my life that I’ve never…

I find it hard to clean. Certainly the basics are simple. If I can kneel, mix warm water with chemicals, and hold a broom or mop while moving my arms, I should be able to bring a blessed sense of order to my tiny apartment. Yet it’s taken me 5 years in this space to have even the desire to see it…

I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being Childs. I am guarding the main entrance. The names don’t matter. They are placeholders, nothing more; all biomass is interchangeable. What matters is that these…

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I vividly remember my first interview as a manager. My hands were shaking as I led the candidate up the stairs to the conference room I had booked. When we got there, I went into a panic. What if I do

Looking back over my eleven-year career in the web industry, I owe most of my success to two people from early on: Holly and Rebecca. Both were supervisors; but, more importantly, both were mentors. I

Matt Hill Follow -- Front End Development plays a key role in the production of any website or app. Yet if you read articles about it, or browse recruitment adverts seeking FE Developers, you may be left feeling confused about what this role really involves. This confusion seems to stem from the…

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Tech is more important than ever, deeply affecting culture, politics and society. Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps, it’s essential to understand the principles that determine how

Peter Jang 22 min read· Feb 4, 2018 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Images from Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North CSS is strangely considered both one of the easiest and one of the hardest languages to learn as a web developer. It’s certainly easy enough to get started with it — you…

Alright! It’s time for the final talk of the day at An Event Apart Seattle (Special Edition). Jen is wrapping up a CSStastic afternoon with her talk Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed.

JavaScript is now part of the toolkit of most working developers. What if network effects push it into being the first-ever truly dominant programming language? 8 min read· May 15, 2018 -- Around a de

What would you say if I told you I just read and analyzed over 350 articles from A List Apart in less than six weeks? “You’re crazy!” might have passed through your lips. In that case, what would you

No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article. The following is inspired by the article “It’s the future” from Circle CI. You can read the original here. This piece is just

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Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images On Friday, Bill Maher said the N-word on live television. By Saturday, as the public apology cycle dictates, he’d said he was sorry. “Friday night

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I've loved airplanes for as long as I can remember, but it wasn't until my late 20s that I started training to become a commercial airline pilot. My adult life before then consisted of a master's…

Adrian Miller is the author of the James Beard Award-winning book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time. Follow him on Twitter at @soulfoodscholar. Fifty years…

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I love routines. One of them is going to good restaurants. So I stop for food like always as I walk home on a Wednesday night. I always order the same thing, eaten while staring blankly ahead. I…

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