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9 Best Articles in 2021
Brain Pickings
Why We Like What We Like: Poet and Philosopher George Santayana on the Formation and Confirmation of…Brain Pickings
3 min read · Jan 7th · “Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.”
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Considering the formative infrastructure of our frames of reference and our standards, our likes and dislikes, our aesthetic and moral judgments — that colossal compass of sensibility we call “taste,” by which we orient ourselves to the world, for we only ever orient by our yeas and nays — Santayana writes:  Taste is formed in those moments when aesthetic emotion is massive and distinct; preferences then grown conscious, judgments then put into words, will verbal reverberate through calmer hours; they will constitute prejudices, habits of apperception, secret standards for all other beauties. A period of life in which such intuitions have been frequent may amass tastes and ideals sufficient for the rest of our days. Youth in these matters governs maturity, and while men may develop their early impressions more systematically and find confirmations of them in various quarters, they will seldom look at the world afresh or use new categories in deciphering it. Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. Never being so deeply stirred again, we remain persuaded that no objects save those we then discovered can have a true sublimity.
18f.gsa.gov
Introducing the U.S. Web Design Standards18f.gsa.gov
8 min read · From 2015 · The U.S. Web Design Standards is the U.S. government’s very own set of common UI components and visual styles for websites. It’s a resource designed to make things easier for government designers and developers, while raising the bar on what the American people can expect from their digital experiences.
ux
standards
guidelines
copyblogger
Make Writing Easier, without Lowering Your Standards (3 Ways) -copyblogger
4 min read · Mar 15th · How to make writing a little easier without lowering your standards for high-quality, well-researched content that makes an impact.
writing
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phptherightway.com
PHP: The Right Wayphptherightway.com
From 2012 · An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative PHP tutorials around the Web
php
best practices
documentation
medium.com
I’ve seen the future, it’s full of HTML.medium.com
3 min read · From 2017 · WebComponents are more than standards.
webcomponents
UX Collective
Web Accessibility Standards: an overview for designersUX Collective
~12 min read · 2020-03-02 · The term Accessibility covers a very vast field of standards that comes with a confusing myriad of acronyms.
a11y
playbook.cio.gov
U.S. Web Design Standards | U.S. Web Design Standardsplaybook.cio.gov
2 min read · From 2015 · Skip to main content The Standards are a design system that allows federal agencies to quickly prototype and deploy digital products using a baseline of design patterns. We offer a customized training…
design
accessibility
ux
Facebook Newsroom
Updating the Values That Inform Our Community StandardsFacebook Newsroom
2019-09-12 · We’re expanding the values that serve as the basis for our Community Standards — the guidelines for what is and isn’t allowed on Facebook.
community management
facebook
cssdb.org
CSS Databasecssdb.org
3 min read · From 2018 · A comprehensive list of CSS features and their positions in the process of becoming implemented web standards.
css
features
standards
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Psychology Today
The Origins of Double Standards in Toxic RelationshipsPsychology Today
4 min read · Jul 21st · Where double standards come from, and how to diminish their destructive effects.
relationships
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life experiences lead to enacting double relationship standards. These experiences take place without awareness and occur automatically
When an omnipotent personality meets a needy, impotent personality, he or she pulls out all the stops and provides unstinting emotional support
WIRED
This Agency Wants to Figure Out Exactly How Much You Trust AIWIRED
3 min read · Jun 22nd · The National Institute of Standards and Technology measures how many photons pass through a chicken. Now, it wants to quantify transparency around algorithms.
technology
artificial intelligence
The Verge
Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehiclesThe Verge
3 min read · Jul 26th · Toyota used to lead in fuel economy standards.
BBC Future
Why 'quirky' people are attractiveBBC Future
8 min read · Jun 2nd · There are some universal standards of beauty, so why has evolution not made us all beautiful? When it comes to attraction, originality can pay off.
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Psychology Today
The Origins of Double Standards in Toxic RelationshipsPsychology Today
4 min read · Jul 21st · Where double standards come from, and how to diminish their destructive effects.
relationships
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life experiences lead to enacting double relationship standards. These experiences take place without awareness and occur automatically
When an omnipotent personality meets a needy, impotent personality, he or she pulls out all the stops and provides unstinting emotional support
Smashing Magazine
Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The HowSmashing Magazine
20+ min read · From 2019 · Web Standards, and the documentation to support them, provide huge insight into ‘the why’ and ‘the what’ of the world wide web. In this article, we take a look at the history of Web Standards, how to…
web development
XKCD Comic
xkcd: StandardsXKCD Comic
From 2016 · This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.
Facebook Newsroom
An Update on How We Are Doing At Enforcing Our Community StandardsFacebook Newsroom
From 2019 · We're publishing our third Community Standards Enforcement Report.
TechCrunch
Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardwareTechCrunch
2 min read · From 2019 · Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, citing difficulty meeting its own standards. “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled…
keithjgrant.com
Meet the New Dialog Elementkeithjgrant.com
3 min read · From 2018 · HTML 5.2 has introduced a new element for native modal dialog boxes. At first glance, it seems fairly straightforward (and it is), but as I’ve been playing around with it, I’ve found it
modals
standards
Stripe
Designing accessible color systemsStripe
9 min read · 2019-10-15 · How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
a11y
visual design
better living
A List Apart
Standards for Writing AccessiblyA List Apart
5 min read · 2020-01-23 · In this excerpt from Writing is Designing, Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle discuss critical accessibility considerations for content authors, including reading order, references to additional cont…
a11y
The Outline
Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web worksThe Outline
7 min read · From 2017 · The organization that sets standards for the web just failed to beat back a stupid, greedy technology.
Standards

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