gridless.design

gridless

gridless.design get rid of grid “Blasphemy, I need structure and order!” The web is good at these things, just not in the ways that designers have been accustomed to working. We’ll take a look at how we got here and…

The chip shortage is getting worse

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Starting next week, General Motors is again halting the assembly lines of several pickup truck plants because the company doesn’t have enough computer chips. The plants had been back up and running for just a week following a shutdown in…

The State Of Web Workers In 2021

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Quick summary ↬ The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep, but can be an important and useful tool in any web developer’s toolbelt for these kinds of problems.…

Streaming space tourism is the new reality TV

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When SpaceX launches its first all-civilian crew into space later this fall and takes a multi-day trip circling the Earth, humanity can follow along online thanks to an exclusive documentary deal Netflix sealed with Elon Musk’s private space company. The…

The Amazon union drive isn’t over yet

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The union drive in Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center that ended with a majority of workers voting against unionizing may well get a second chance. A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) official is now calling for a reelection, citing Amazon’s…