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Writing CSS with Accessibility in Mind

An introduction to web accessibility. Tips on how to improve the accessibility of your web sites and apps with CSS.

How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk

UPDATE: The Next Web wrote a story about my findings: https://thenextweb.com/security/2017/09/21/ticket-trick-see-hackers-gain-unauthorized…

A new kind of map: it’s about time

By: Peter Liu

What advertising teaches us about periods

They are often sexist, strange, and silly, but advertisements for menstrual products are an important source of information about periods…

Becoming Stardust: The Future Cemetery

Imagine strolling through a cemetery at night, the wooded path softly illuminated by a canopy of glowing pods filled with human remains…

Oregonians and their Woods and Watching Them Burn

We revered these resources and now we’ve loved them to death

The New York Times, the Internet, and the Death of ‘Opinion’

How bad-faith provocations are warping the factual record

Bigger, Longer, And Shockingly Feminist

The female gaze of ‘Magic Mike XXL’

Pura Fantasia

Now, it’s been a while (77 chapters) and I think the time has come for me, the narrator, reveal myself as MOHAMMAD X F.K.A. KOOL MAN A.K.A.

Big Tech’s nemesis

Is the rich world’s most powerful trustbuster championing consumers or her political career?

All the stuff you can do with iPhone 8 that you couldn’t with iPhone 7

Here’s what that upgrade will get you.

Robots: Is your job at risk?

The US horse population peaked at about 26 million. There’s been, of course, a steady decline since then.

For years, there was Playboy for blind people, then a Republican congressman tried to kill it

The government shouldn’t subsidize porn, he argued

The Definitive Sandwich Family Tree

By John Leavitt

Lost Letters From Cassini

At last the REAL story of the Cassini spacecraft can be told. Read the letters NASA doesn’t want you to see!

How Writing Closed Captions Turned Me off TV For Good

Post-MFA, a writer spends time in the captioning trenches

What advertising teaches us about periods

They are often sexist, strange, and silly, but advertisements for menstrual products are an important source of information about periods…

How Autonomous Driving Will Change Our Cities

Traditional Car Ownership on the Decline

How virtual reality can make you better, smarter and fitter

Lauren Joseph, Lead, Electronics Industry and Global Industry Fellow , World Economic Forum

How Technology is Like Bug Sex

Thousands of people swarmed the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Looking from above, the scene resembled an insect…

What Comes After Silicon?

A guide to the future materials that will power our computers

On Being a Good Platform Citizen

A while ago the Obama Foundation (Full disclosure: they are a much-appreciated Postlight client! Secondary disclosure: we’re hosting an…

One Thing You Can Do to Feel More Creative Today

The word Creativity is used a lot in our language and culture these days, but do you consider yourself a creative person? Being creative…

A Single Idea is the Juice For Content That Resonates

You know that feeling you get when a conversation doesn’t flow? Those weird pauses, polite laughter, and finally the sigh of relief when…

Storytelling is still the most effective way to teach and coach. Here’s why.

Once upon a time…

An Author’s Checklist: 9 Techniques For Crisp, Powerful Revisions

Great writing comes from revising.

The Complete Guide to Editing Your First Draft Like a Pro

You spent hours working on it.

Does your product tell the story?

Product vs Marketing: who wins

How This Lesson Steve Jobs Learned At 12 Years Old Can Make You A Better Entrepreneur

Ask More Questions

GitHub: manual for non-technical entrepreneurs

GitHub is the world’s largest hosting service for storing and working with IT-projects, but that’s not all. The resource cooperates nearly…

Second-Hand Misogyny

About a year ago, my co-founder and I started work on Transposit. It’s not that weird to start a company, but one way in which we were an…

The Difference Between You and the People You Admire

What I learned bartending and building a business.

Why It’s Time to Disable Diversity Efforts

Sunday night’s Emmy darling, The Handmaid’s Tale, is binge-worthy, for sure — stuffed with moments that steal the breath from both Offred…

How sociologist and poet Eve Ewing uses fiction to study race and education

Her new book, ‘Electric Arches,’ explores race and identity

The Scariest Thing About ‘It’ Is The Misogyny

The narrative arc of Beverly Marsh surfaces tired, and troubling, Hollywood tropes.

From Clapping to Likes, and Back Again

A new series looking at the cultural history of attention metrics from Victorian music halls to Facebook.

The dark beauty of DEATH NOTE

… no, not the disappointing Netflix movie.

Confront the Brutal Facts (Yet Never Lose Faith)

The truth might hurt, but self-deceit keeps you in mediocrity.

The Rustout Issue: Why We Tend to Stagnate in Life

We start off the same way.

Approach Life Like A Game: 8 Ways You Can Be More Successful

Life and learning doesn’t have to be stale. We can confront reality the same way as we do in the virtual world.