February 13, 2019

283: Timefoolery

31 minutes

This week, we answer a couple listener questions, including how to reliably align text to a baseline grid, and how to use data to learn from the features you ship. In News, Marshall extols the virtues of a little feature in the recently-released Sketch 53 update. And as always, we share a couple cool things, like a mind-bending Netflix show and an accessibility-focused pull request.

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Follow-up:

For last week's One Cool Thing, Marshall shared LG's 65-inch Rollable 4K OLED TV (video), and go figure, it actually DOES resize to 21:9 (video). Whoops!

Mea culpa is a very fancy Latin phrase meaning "my fault"

Ramon Gilabert suggested a couple secure ways of time-tracking and network control

Timing is "the best automatic Mac time tracker for productive professionals and freelancers"

Little Snitch "makes your Internet connections visible and puts you back in control"

News:

Sketch 53 is available now

Sketch Blog: "Better overrides, a brand new Fill Popover and faster prototyping in Sketch 53"

Listener Questions:

Andreas v.d. Griendt asks "How do you work with developers to get your 8pt grid designs implemented? This is easy for placing a button. But if you actually would align text to a 4pt baseline, this is very challenging. Easy to do in Sketch, but super difficult for developers to implement/understand. For web this would be even more difficult than for native. But dynamic font sizing can be a challenge as well with this approach. What is helpful to do? How do you balance enforcing this?"

Kevin Gutowski asks "Data is, of course, very important. How do you actually learn from the features that you ship? What hard metrics / soft metrics are recorded? How are they being recorded and by whom?"

One Cool Thing:

Marshall shared Russian Doll, a Netflix Original co-created by and starring Natasha Lyonne

Brian shared a pull request by Jaochim that makes Security Checklist more accessible

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