A super bumper jumbo crop for you :0)
UX
Interface writing – code for humans: http://nicolefenton.com/interface-writing/
The best interface is no interface: http://www.nointerface.com/book/
Making companies competitive by expanding design’s role: http://www.uie.com/articles/expanding_design/ (more UIE goodness)
Style guides best practices, a presentation by Brad Frost: http://www.slideshare.net/bradfrostweb/style-guide-best-practices?sf9856760=1
Wonderful presentation by Jared Spool on building delightful UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpz2gR_oJQ
Performance and progressive enhancement
The Guardian reports on advertising affecting web page performance (if you can find the article amongst all the ads…): http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/19/ad-tech-online-experience-facebook-apple-news
And CNN Money is also talking about web performance: http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/16/technology/web-slow-big/index.html
Progressive enhancement, by the government: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/making-software/progressive-enhancement.html
Don’t add the clever thing: http://christianheilmann.com/2015/07/08/slimming-down-the-web-remove-code-to-fix-things-dont-add-the-clever-thing/
10 ways to minimise reflows: http://www.sitepoint.com/10-ways-minimize-reflows-improve-performance/
Designing with progressive enhancement (talk, slides): http://sixtwothree.org/posts/designing-with-progressive-enhancement
Cache efficiency study by Facebook: https://code.facebook.com/posts/964122680272229/web-performance-cache-efficiency-exercise/
Offline first – the final frontier?: http://offlinefirst.org/
The web’s cruft problem: http://developer.telerik.com/featured/the-webs-cruft-problem/
There was a lot of discussion about progressive enhancement following a couple of conferences in June, here are the best articles I saw about it:
Assumptions (by Remy Sharp): https://remysharp.com/2015/07/02/assumptions
Baseline (by my man-crush Jeremy Keith): https://adactio.com/journal/9206
Thriving in unpredictability (by Tim Kadlec): http://timkadlec.com/2015/06/thriving-in-unpredictability/
Availability (by Stuart Langridge): http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2015/06/28/availability/ (also see http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/why-availability/)
Accessibility
WAI-ARIA screen reader compatibility tables: http://www.powermapper.com/tests/screen-readers/aria/index.html
The great and good of the accessibility world are putting together an Album for Accessibility: http://www.heydonworks.com/article/an-album-for-a11y
Styling forms accessibly: http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/styling-forms-accessibly/
The business case for (accessible) issue prevention: http://blog.tenon.io/the-business-case-for-issue-prevention/
The accessibility cheatsheet: http://bitsofco.de/2015/the-accessibility-cheatsheet/
Tools and resources
Control and manage real smartphones from your browser: https://openstf.github.io/
Awesome geek podcasts! Awesome! https://github.com/cv/awesome-geek-podcasts/blob/master/README.md
Lightweight, standalone JavaScript input masking: https://github.com/estelle/input-masking/
Get started with CSS (a free course by Russ Weakley, CSS guru): https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/courses/getting-started-with-css-2903
New W3C mobile checker tool: http://www.w3.org/blog/validator/2015/06/23/the-new-w3c-mobile-checkers-alpha-release-be-mobile-friendly/
Free book on JavaScript: http://eloquentjavascript.net/
And another one: http://speakingjs.com/
Know your HTTP (posters to print): https://github.com/bigcompany/know-your-http
Performance tools, a good list by CSS Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/performance-tools/
Accessibility testing plugin for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/axe/lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd
Automated accessibility testing: http://pa11y.org/
Accessibility visualisation toolkit: http://khan.github.io/tota11y/
New performance tools in Firefox: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/new-performance-tools-in-firefox-developer-edition-40/
Development
Everyone knows about http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/, so here’s http://youmightnotneedjqueryplugins.com/
.Net Framework 4.6 is coming, with lots of goodies: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/07/20/announcing-net-framework-4-6.aspx
Yet Another Weekly Email: http://softwareleadweekly.com/
Developer or user convenience, who should pay? Good stuff from Aaron Gustafson: http://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/who-should-pay/
A website for code reviews: https://www.antipattern.io/
The boring front-end developer: http://thebfed.com/
Layers and legacies: a warning about old code: https://medium.com/message/why-the-great-glitch-of-july-8th-should-scare-you-b791002fff03
Comparisons between software and medicine: http://farmerandfarmer.org/medicine/index.html
The whole of JavaScript in one picture: https://github.com/coodict/javascript-in-one-pic/blob/master/README.md
.Net extensions galore: https://github.com/calbucci/CalbucciLib.ExtensionsGalore
Useful JavaScript debugging tips you didn’t know: https://raygun.io/blog/2015/06/useful-javascript-debugging-tips-you-didnt-know/
No good can come of bad code: http://alistapart.com//column/no-good-can-come-of-bad-code
The role of a senior developer: http://mattbriggs.net/blog/2015/06/01/the-role-of-a-senior-developer/
And finally…
You know (and hopefully love) http://alistapart.com/, so check out http://alistafart.com/
An old-skool synth in JavaScript: http://nicroto.github.io/viktor/
Finally, a solution to providing comments without feeding the trolls: https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js
3D maps of every London Underground station: http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/07/12/3d-maps-of-every-underground-station-ab/
Stories about the internet (more interesting than it sounds): http://citizen-ex.com/stories/
The untold story of the invention of the game cartridge: http://www.fastcompany.com/3040889/the-untold-story-of-the-invention-of-the-game-cartridge
For the pedants among you: http://grammarist.com/words/impactful/