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Book Reviews

• A True Sense of Urgency
• One Foot Higher Each Year
• From Panic to Bewilderment
• Review: Everything is Figureoutable
• Computational Kindness
• Review: Aware, The Science and Practice of Presence
• Clean Room, Clean Mind
• Review: Dawn of the New Everything
• Best Design Books Not Explicitly About Design
• A Higher Standard
• 2017 Daily Reads: Dalio and Drucker
• A Decision Without Action Is Only a Hope
• Be a Yardstick of Quality
• Smarter, Faster, Better
• Design for Real Life
• Review: The Way of the Web Tester
• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning
• Pride and Paradev
• Review: Superforecasting
• Book Review: Quiet
• Book Review: Let My People Go Surfing
• The Power of Habit

Presentations

• Your First 90 Days: ProductCon
• (Video) CSS Grid Changes Everything
• Scott Stancil: Effective Bug Discovery and Management (WordCamp DC 2017)
• Video: Empathy and User-centered Design
• WordPress Edinburgh
• Speaking at ThemeConf
• WordCamp Buenos Aires 2015
• Video: State of Themes Panel
• Press Publish
• WordPress Barcelona December Recap
• WordCamp Las Peñitas: A 1000-Hour Head Start with Underscores
• I’m Speaking at WordCamp Phoenix 2013
• Speaking at the June 2012 Portland WP User Group
• WordCamp San Diego 2012
• WordCamp Phoenix 2012
• Ian Stewart: Awesome Up Your WordPress Theme with Post Formats
• Presenting at WordCamp San Francisco 2011
• WordPress 3.2, Gershwin
• Break Your Theme, WordCamp Columbus
• May 2010 Events
• WordPress for Collaboration

WordPress & Web Design

• Free Tutorial: Optimize Your Business Website
• (TTFS) Time to First Smile
• Manuel Matuzović on Accessibility and Inclusive Design
• Tide: Automated Testing for WordPress Plugins and Themes
• Make Difficult Things Possible, Easy Things Effortless
• Stripe Connect, Frontend Experience
• Gutenberg is the Next-Generation Engine for WordPress
• How Canaries Help Us Merge Good Pull Requests
• Tester Easter Egg
• (Video) CSS Grid Changes Everything
• Does IQ Measure Literacy?
• Abstract, High Resolution, Listen & Learn
• Scott Stancil: Effective Bug Discovery and Management (WordCamp DC 2017)
• Design Success Ladder: Meaningful Products
• Design for Real Life
• Get Involved: WordPress App Testing
• WordPress.com Automated Tests Now Open Source — WatirMelon
• A Brand New Approach to WordPress
• WordPress Core Responsive Image Support
• WordPress Edinburgh
• Operation Homecooked Mobile Device Lab
• WordCamp Buenos Aires 2015
• Video: State of Themes Panel
• Building Themes With the WP REST API
• Davide Casali: Gestalt Design Principles for Developers

Craftsmanship & Learning

• (Video) Interview with Jack Dykinga
• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning
• SupConf
• Press Publish
• Encourage Dissidence
• TextMate Power Tips
• Still Learning Dvorak
• Learning Dvorak
• Craftsmanship and Coding Standards
• Top 10 Lists vs. Web Craftsmanship
• Be An Employable Web Designer
• SEO Guide for Designers

Interesting Links

• A Crash Course in Remote Management
• Simplenote is Back!
• Aaron Douglas: Being Mindful During Video Calls
• Kerry Liu on Team Leadership: Three Important Things
• 2018 Design in Tech Report
• Perception Versus Reality
• Agile Thinkers Know When a Best Practice Isn’t Best
• Hitsville
• Inclusive Design, Day 7/15: Roku and the 10-Foot Rule
• Top 5 Recent Sensible Leader Posts, and What’s Up Next
• Tide: Automated Testing for WordPress Plugins and Themes
• Stripe Connect, Frontend Experience
• If You Love Being Limited
• Inspired by Doug Glanville’s Triple Threat: Baseball, Journalism, and Social Justice
• Home is Where the Work Is
• Understand By Doing
• How Canaries Help Us Merge Good Pull Requests
• Happy Second Birthday AMP
• (Listen) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hits refresh
• (Video) Interview with Jack Dykinga
• Change Your Angle
• (Listen) You 2.0, Hidden Brain on NPR
• (Video) CSS Grid Changes Everything
• Data for Breakfast, via Reader
• Abstract, High Resolution, Listen & Learn

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