Pantone recently announced their Color of the Year, and surprisingly they have chosen 2 colors, a pink (Rose Quartz) and a blue (Serenity). They say they have a softer take on color for 2016 and their Color of the Year is a blending of 2 shades. Pink and blue are not used together very much...

Sometimes it's easy to feel like the world is going to pieces all around us, especially when we're doom scrolling Twitter between news alerts every few minutes. But if we step back a little, things may not seem so bad. On the web, we see companies and individuals taking a positive stand, making changes, and […] The post 20 Best New Sites, May 2022 first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

According to TIOBE, Python was the programming language that stole developers' hearts in 2021. It's the second time in a row that Python has been crowned the TIOBE Programming Language of the Year. Last month, TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen floated the possibility that C# may take the crown for the first time after posting... Read more » The post Deja vu: Python wins TIOBE Programming Language of the Year appeared first on Developer Tech News.

All creatures have a distinct way of perceiving the world around them. Dogs have an impressive sense of smell. Eagles have the uncanny ability to see their prey from a... The post Keep To The Code: Why Designers Should Stick To UX Patterns appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The web continues to amaze me. With all its variety and different changes to the platform, it's hard to see a straight pattern — if there even is (just) one. But it's wonderful to see what is being changed, which features are added to the platform, which ones get deprecated, and how browsers implement more and more technology to protect the user from malicious website attacks. It's interesting to see that these security features nowadays are getting as much attention as a feature for developers; this shows the importance of privacy and security and how unstable and insecure the web was in the past.

The Ampersand is loved by all types of creatives! Its shape has evolved into a variety of styles since it was conceived as a ligature of the letters ‘e’ and ‘t’ from the Latin ‘et’ for ‘and’. You can find a range of ampersand designs across different fonts and typefaces, from cursive script variants to […] The post Art of the Ampersand: 35 Creative Examples of The '&' Character appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

I expect every WordPress user to know it; the WordPress Maintenance Mode. During every update, the CMS puts itself into the maintenance mode, no matter whether it’s a core, theme, or plugin update. In that period, your visitors are unable to access your website. This doesn’t sound all that good, but it’s actually a handy thing. The WordPress Maintenance Mode There are many possible reasons to send your website into the maintenance mode. The most important ones being website, theme, and plugin updates. Website Updates Each time your website is edited, it should be moved into the maintenance mode for the public. The user will immediately know that your website can not be viewed for a certain amount of time and that he’s better off checking back later. Theme and Plugin Updates The term updates does not only mean theme updates, but also the installation and set up of new themes. Of course, other things that take longer than a couple of seconds, or minutes are possible as well. This includes changes made to the stylesheet, or the integration of new areas, for example. The installation of new themes may take some time. However, simple theme or plugin updates might […]

This week's Designer News (No 475) includes The End of the Celebrity Designer, UX Microcopy: Finding a Balance Between Empathy and Humor, Intro to Font Metrics, A Subtle JavaScript to Punish Non-Paying Clients, Bidirectional Scrolling is Here to Save Responsive Design, An Introduction to CSS Exclusions and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 475 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Threatmapper is a cloud-native security observability platform that scans, maps, and ranks vulnerabilities from development through production across serverless, Kubernetes, container, and multi-cloud environments. This Wednesday, it was open-sourced by Deepfence under the Apache 2.0 license. "By open sourcing ThreatMapper, we aim to help developers, DevOps, DevSecOps, and security teams identify and prioritize threats quickly … continue reading The post SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Threatmapper appeared first on SD Times.

While reading about data science, it is very likely that you will come across phrases like "data is the new oil", or "data is the... The post Data Modelling Simplified appeared first on Web Development & Technology Resources.