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Semantic HTML

Ken Bellows has a nice introduction to semantic HTML over on dev.to. While reading it, I realised that I started learning HTML 20 years ago this year! I've come along way since framesets, but not far enough apparently, time to break out some more of these fancy new tags! (Although, I do find it difficult to use <strong> instead of <b>, <b> is so much faster to type!)

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The Problems With Software Hiring

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Nikita Prokopov has a superb blog post about how a lot of tech companies approach the hiring of software engineers incorrectly. He pulls no punches in describing how impractical it is to write code on a whiteboard, not being able to run and test interview code, the irrelevance of puzzles and the missed opportunities when not customising interviews to the interviewee. I could not agree more with everything in this post!

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Accessible Brand Colours

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L.A. based design studio Use All Five have a great online accessibility colour picking tool which shows whether the colours pass the different levels of WCAG accessibility compliance.

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Accessibility Tools

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Ben Robertson has put together a handy list of 5 automated tools to use to test your website for accessibility issues.

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Generative Music

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Generative.fm is an ambient music player created by Alex Bainter that generates endless music systematically, handy to play in the background while working.

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{develop:BBC} London 2019

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This week we took a short trip to London where my wife Jenn was giving the opening keynote for the {develop:BBC} internal BBC developers conference at the BBC Radio Theatre in BBC HQ.

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Firefox Send

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Mozilla have released a WeTransfer alternative called Firefox Send. The service allows you to send encrypted, self expiring data of up to 1GB unregistered, and up to 2.5GB with an account.

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Accessibility of 1m Homepages

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WebAIM conducted an accessibility study of 1,000,000 website homepages. The analysis captured 168 million datapoints and took 66.2 days of cumulative computer processing time. The results are available here and show that the most prevalent WCAG error is low contrast on the page.

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CSS Flexbox

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I'm a bit late to the CSS3 party here but CSS Tricks have a great visual tutorial on CSS Flexbox and the various layout options available in flexbox. Don't forget to use CanIUse to check browser support though, and here's a handy CSS prefix generator for that cross-browser support (and see some extra steps are here for Safari).

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Instant Page Loading

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Instant.page is a 1kb library that you can add to your site which pre-loads the next page before a user clicks on a link. The code tests the hover time over a link, and only beings the pre-load when the hover time is over 65ms.

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