Here we are again, a lovely set of links for you to enjoy.
Performance
A beginners guide to high-performance website (free 89-page course): http://gomakethings.com/wicked-fast-websites/
Think you know web performance? Take the quiz: http://www.webspeedgeek.com/quiz/content/home.aspx (but check out the leaderboard, some Very Clever People on there)
Open source performance dashboard: http://www.peterhedenskog.com/blog/2015/04/open-source-performance-dashboard/
Performance bookmarklet, Chrome and Firefox extension: https://github.com/micmro/performance-bookmarklet
Free course on browser rendering optimization: https://www.udacity.com/course/browser-rendering-optimization–ud860
More weight doesn’t mean more wait: http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/weight-wait.html but this does not mean that page weight doesn’t matter
Tips for surviving Google’s “Mobilegeddon”: http://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/tips-for-surviving-googles-mobilegeddon/
Design and accessibility
Revisiting the Priority+ pattern: http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/revisiting-the-priority-pattern/ (also contains links to other useful navigation patterns)
There is no fold: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1946
Practical ARIA examples: http://heydonworks.com/practical_aria_examples/
Accessibility is not what you think: https://boagworld.com/accessibility/accessibility-is-not-what-you-think/
In search of a living design system: https://the-pastry-box-project.net/jina-bolton/2015-March-28 (contains great examples)
Using flexbox today: http://chriswrightdesign.com/experiments/using-flexbox-today/
10 methods for optimizing your forms for mobile devices: http://speckyboy.com/2015/03/30/10-methods-for-optimizing-your-forms-for-mobile-devices/
Web tech
There’s a new browser on the block: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/browser-for-doing?wt.mc_id=MM13J6
Microsoft have launched a new developer site specifically about their new Edge browser: http://dev.modern.ie/
Visual Studio 2015 now has a network tool: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/05/04/introducing-visual-studio-s-network-tool.aspx
Build cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies: http://electron.atom.io/
Business
Think of starting your own software company? Here’s the handbook: http://www.singlefounderhandbook.com/
Clarifying what is meant by “minimum viable product”: http://blog.heyimcat.com/ (scroll down to the article named “It’s called ‘ship’ not ‘sh*t’” – the email system doesn’t like profane language)
“There is a difference in how well businesses decision makers think industries are able to provide application technologies and how well consumers believe the same industries are actually delivering”: http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/new-thinking/bridging-senior-management-disconnect-digital by the very, very clever Gerry McGovern
The one-minute test: https://medium.com/@jmspool/the-one-minute-test-68738cb111ea a great idea for the end of any meeting
The web’s grain by Frank Chimero: http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/ (I put this under “business” as it’s something that managers should read so they understand what the web is really about)
A/A testing: http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/aa-testing/ – important points about “statistically significant” numbers
Development
Reference for HTML characters: http://htmlarrows.com/
Package a web app as a native app across Android, iOS and Windows: http://www.manifoldjs.com/
Explore and master Chrome DevTools: http://discover-devtools.codeschool.com/
9 truths that computer programmers know that most people don’t: http://macleodsawyer.com/2015/03/06/nine-truths-computer-programmers-know-that-most-people-dont/
Progressive enhancement with handlers and enhancers: https://hiddedevries.nl/en/blog/2015-04-03-progressive-enhancement-with-handlers-and-enhancers (bonus link:http://performerjs.org/)
And finally…
Pay a granny to knit for you: http://www.granniesinc.co.uk/