9 Best Articles in 2021
Aeon+Psyche
The idea of intellectual property is nonsensical and pernicious
Aeon+Psyche
~15 min read · 108 saves · From 2018 · As digital production and distribution developed in recent decades, alongside grew a new discourse about property and rights – and at its heart, the concepts underlying the term “intellectual property.” Philosophy professor and author Samir Chopra urges writers and speakers to reject the term and return to more fundamental legal protections for creative and scientific works. In a passionate and carefully reasoned article for Aeon, Chopra outlines the arguments for dropping the umbrella concept of intellectual property.
CSS-Tricks
The backdrop-filter CSS property
CSS-Tricks
4 min read · 44 saves · From 2018 · I had never heard of the backdrop-filter property until yesterday, but after a couple of hours messing around with it I’m positive that it’s nothing more than magic. This is because it adds filters (like changing the hue, contrast or blur) of the background of an element without changing the text or other elements
web.dev
content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
web.dev
6 min read · 103 saves · 2020-08-05 · The CSS content-visibility property enables web content rendering performance benefits by skipping rendering of off-screen content. This article shows you how to leverage this new CSS property for…
In Art
The New York Times
Cookie Monster Mural Puzzles Artist and Enrages Property Owner
The New York Times
5 min read · 48 saves · 2020-12-16 · Maria Cramer · A man claiming to be a property owner in Peoria, Ill., wanted a Soviet-style mural of Cookie Monster. The artist who did the job now says he was tricked (and paid) by an impostor.
In Remote Work
Quartz
The company behind WordPress is closing its gorgeous San Francisco office because its employees never show up
Quartz
1 min read · 348 saves · From 2017 · The blogging platform's parent, a remote-working advocate, wound up listing the property.
Smashing Magazine
Digging Into The Display Property
Smashing Magazine
8 min read · 26 saves · From 0200 · Continuing a series on the `display` property in CSS, this time Rachel Andrew takes a look at the values which control box generation, for those times when you don’t want to generate a box at all.
chenhuijing.com
How well do you know CSS display?
chenhuijing.com
~11 min read · 165 saves · From 2016 · The display property is one of the most important CSS properties we use for layout. Most of us would have...
manishearth.github.io
Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property
manishearth.github.io
~14 min read · 26 saves · From 2017 · font-size is the worst. It’s a CSS property probably everyone who writes CSS has used at some point. It’s pretty ubiquitous. And it’s super complicated. “But it’s just a …
In Technology
The Verge
Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
The Verge
2 min read · 135 saves · 2020-06-22 · Makena Kelly · The Data Dividend Project is advocating for data property rights
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In Art
The New York Times
Cookie Monster Mural Puzzles Artist and Enrages Property Owner
The New York Times
5 min read · 48 saves · 2020-12-16 · Maria Cramer · A man claiming to be a property owner in Peoria, Ill., wanted a Soviet-style mural of Cookie Monster. The artist who did the job now says he was tricked (and paid) by an impostor.
In Innovation
The New York Times
Opinion | Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights
The New York Times
7 min read · 63 saves · 2020-12-07 · Otherwise, there won’t be enough shots to go around, even in rich countries.
The Cut
The Karen Next Door
The Cut
20+ min read · 61 saves · 2020-12-21 · A white woman calls the police on her Black neighbors. Six months later, they still share a property line.
ProPublica
Police Say Seizing Property Without Trial Helps Keep Crime Down. A New Study Shows They’re Wrong.
ProPublica
5 min read · 19 saves · 2020-12-14 · Civil asset forfeiture laws, which allow police to seize property without trial, are frequently justified as tools to seize millions from kingpins. A new study reveals the median amount taken is as…
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Smashing Magazine
Digging Into The Display Property
Smashing Magazine
8 min read · 20 saves · From 0200 · Continuing a series on the `display` property in CSS, this time Rachel Andrew takes a look at what happens when you use grid as a value of display, with added information about how subgrid changes…
Smashing Magazine
Helping Browsers Optimize With The CSS Contain Property — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine
6 min read · 28 saves · 2019-12-27 · The CSS contain property gives you a way to explain your layout to the browser, so performance optimizations can be made. However, it does come with some side effects in terms of your layout.
In Blockchain
WIRED
What's Blockchain Actually Good for, Anyway? For Now, Not Much
WIRED
2 min read · 146 saves · 2019-10-28 · Not long ago, blockchain technology was touted as a way to track tuna, bypass banks, and preserve property records. Reality has proved a much tougher challenge.
The Guardian
Berlin tops the world as city with the fastest rising property prices
The Guardian
3 min read · 24 saves · From 2018 · Average prices leapt 20.5% last year, prompting warnings of a property bubble waiting to burst
In Amazon
TechCrunch
Amazon launches an Alexa service for property managers
TechCrunch
2 min read · 34 saves · 2020-09-03 · Amazon wants to bring Alexa to property managers. The company this morning launched a new service, Alexa for Residential, that aims to make it easier for property managers to set up and maintain Alexa…
The New Yorker
Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?
The New Yorker
103 saves · From 2018 · Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google’s self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit. Now the Feds are on the case.
In Innovation
The New York Times
Opinion | Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights
The New York Times
7 min read · 63 saves · 2020-12-07 · Otherwise, there won’t be enough shots to go around, even in rich countries.
WIRED
The Office-Messaging Wars Are Over. Slack Has Won.
WIRED
4 min read · 57 saves · From 2018 · As Atlassian transfers the intellectual property for Stride and HipChat to former rival Slack, Microsoft trails far behind as the last workplace messaging competitor.
bennettfeely.com
Clippy — CSS clip-path maker
bennettfeely.com
101 saves · From 2014 · The clip-path property allows you to make complex shapes in CSS by clipping an element to a basic shape (circle, ellipse, polygon, or inset), or to an SVG source.CSS Animations and transitions are…
