“You want to see some old media?” Alan Kay grins beneath his gray mustache and leads me through his Brentwood home. It’s a nice place with a tennis court out back, but given the upper-crust Los Angeles neighborhood it sits in, it’s hardly ostentatious. He shares it with his wife, Bonnie MacBird, the…

I’ve been pondering this post for a while now, and then yesterday morning an article aptly titled Speaking While Female was published, so now seems like an appropriate time to finally get around to writing my thoughts on the issue. If you haven’t read that piece in its entirety, I’d highly recommend…

Raise your hand if you ever wanted to: Make a website that non-technical folks (clients? family members?) can edit right in the browser Make a website that presents an editable collection of items (your portfolio?) Upload images to a website you made, right from the browser Make an app to track…

Without a Trace TEXT: Anders Fjellberg PHOTO: Tomm W. Christiansen & Hampus Lundgren A gale was blowing from the south-west as the elderly architect put on his jacket and rubber boots and went to face the elements. Down in the bay, four metre high waves crashed against the cliffs and sent sea spray…

I bet you heard about server push in the last few months. Every HTTP/2 article mentions it, but do you really know what it’s all about? The intention of this article is to give you a kick-start into the topic. Why do we need server push? To answer that question we have to look at how HTTP/1.x works.…

Gutenberg v1.1 Gutenberg is an open source project licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 . Feel free to use, adapt or contribute. View on Github What is Gutenberg? Gutenberg is a flexible and simple-to-use web typography starter kit for web designers and developers. It’s a small step towards a better…

Comedian and author (and BUST contributor!) Sara Benincasa has just released her first-ever short film, and it’s f*cking hilarious. Directed by Heather Fink and produced by Roxane Gay, the film, titled “The Focus Group,” stars Sara herself as a depressed, unemployed woman with a love for egg rolls…

How To Brutalize The Web Examining the characteristics of Web Brutalism, why it can be effective, and what it takes to design a Brutalist website. B rutalism was a movement in architecture between the 1950s and 1970s; consisting of structures that were raw, rugged, and exhibited a lack of concern to…

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The Red Pill: ‘I saw feral boys wandering the digital ruins of exploded masculinity’.Illustration: Antony Hare for the Guardian H ow shitty are men really? The question hung in the air, invisible but omnipresent, like the smell of a garbage fire from a nearby town. By 2016, a series of catchphrases…

SAN FRANCISCO — On the morning of March 10, nine days after Hillary Clinton had won big on Super Tuesday and all but clinched the Democratic nomination, a series of emails were sent to the most senior members of her campaign. At a glance, they looked like a standard message from Google, asking that…

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Industrieländer kämpfen seit Jahren gegen die Flaute. Es fehlen Ideen, die das Wachstum stimulieren Das renommierte US-Wirtschaftsmagazin " Inc " wollte vor wenigen Monaten von großen amerikanischen Risikokapitalgebern wissen, welche Firmen aus dem Silicon Valley ihrer Meinung nach 2016 durchstarten…

Stack Overflow’s developer survey analysis hurts women Note: Graciously, Stack Overflow has corrected many of the issues discussed in this piece. Many of the quotations you see in this article are no longer a part of the live survey findings . Read their response . The findings of Stack Overflow’s…

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illustrator Anafelle Liu 1.2 Share on Tumblr E-mail Editor's Note: In keeping with what’s clearly become a habit for the Social Issues section, we give the floor over to an under-heard—and in this case, quite controversial—voice in society: the police officer. This being Grey , hers is no ordinary…

An Aramaic speaker from the Galilee region of Israel holds a book of hymns. If a Middle Eastern man from 2,500 years ago found himself on his home territory in 2015, he would be shocked by the modern innovations, and not just electricity, airplanes, and iPhones. Arabic as an official language in…

Content notice: Discussion of domestic abuse, intimate partner violence and abuse dynamics Contains Jessica Jones spoilers Jessica Jones was a passing Netflix click that quickly turned into an obsession. I had no prior knowledge of the series. I didn’t even attempt a wiki. I imagined another anxious…

My Life, My Voice, My Body, My Rules CHVRCHES lead singer Lauren Mayberry opens up about abusive relationships, and how she got out. version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? Oct 28, 2015 version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? Sign up to get Lenny in your inbox twice a week. Feminism,…

Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media at the Communication and Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster, and co-editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique . A century has now passed since Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) and…

J ust months before Rob Bilott made partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, he received a call on his direct line from a cattle farmer. The farmer, Wilbur Tennant of Parkersburg, W.Va., said that his cows were dying left and right. He believed that the DuPont chemical company, which until recently…

T he fight against the sharing economy, and Uber in particular, can be disorienting. Opposition is often painted as technophobia. The good guys in this story are Uber and progress; on the other side are opponents afraid of flexibility and smartphones, kicking and screaming against a future already…

T he Murphy family, John, Mary and their adult son Dave, were preparing to spend a 33rd Christmas as landlords of the Golden Lion pub in Camden, north London when they heard the rumours. A mysterious figure was said to be looming in their corner of the industry, harrying publicans, striking down…

After I saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens , I did what I'm sure all of you did — I talked to my friends about it. In these conversations, there was one thing almost everyone was confused about: what the hell was going on with the war part of Star Wars . The dialogue repeatedly references "the…

Flexbox Grid Finesse Flexbox — not to be confused with Sex Box , the British TV show wherein Mariella Frostrup interviews people who’ve just had sex in a box — is the CSS layout toolkit de rigueur . Of all the celebrated features of Flexbox, it is the light work it makes of producing wrappable…

Tools — Josep Ma. Rosell (CC BY 2.0) Must See JavaScript Dev Tools That Put Other Dev Tools to Shame “JavaScript sucks for large apps because it can’t even identify the type of a variable, and it sucks for refactoring.” ~ lots of very confused people When I got into JavaScript, there was only one…

Performance is measured from the ground truth of the browser internals, and you're operating a few levels up, with the DOM, framework code, and JavaScript sitting between your users finger and the resulting screen paints. In this session Paul Irish will show how the Chrome DevTools can help you…

Switzerland: Behind the Scenes We’ve gotten a ton of questions about gear and the trip behind the iPhone 6S Camera Review in Switzterland project so we cut together this BTS piece for you — it’s 17 minutes so grab a coffee/snack and enjoy! --- Thanks to Jordan Bellamy for cutting together this…

One of the secrets to the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that it's more charming than most of its superhero-franchise rivals. Think about it: Was there anything silly about the Christopher Nolan Batman movies or Man of Steel ? Sure, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers do plenty of brooding, but…