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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. The Marshall Project Mixes Media.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity

Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity. 2020-07-28T09:30:00+00:00. 2020-07-28T14:04:40+00:00. Several record cover designs by McBain Associates during the 1960s. Andrew Clarke. Large preview ).

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. The specification of AV1 was published in 2018.

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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

pic.twitter.com/k6obyVZGZP — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 11 May, 2020. While there are a number of ways to achieve this, I’d dare say the simplest and most ubiquitous is Filament Group’s print media type trick. This is the danger of the print media hack. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ? Enter preload.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize? It’s not our data. It’s our attention.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. These projects have created language models that are based on focused datasets (for example, models designed to be more accurate for academic papers, developer forum discussions, etc.). The Arms Race.

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Links on Performance V

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“These are designed to update HTTP standards to match the reality of the CDN-powered web that exists today, creating specifications that formalize existing practices from popular CDNs.” CWVs were announced in May 2020 and then we were told by May 2021 they would become a factor in SEO. Like ImageOptim , I suppose.