September 30, 2020

🤓 September's roundup – tempertemper newsletter

Hi there!

September has drawn to a close and my part of the UK is back in lockdown 🔒, which means I've had a wee bit more time for writing this month!

I've been thinking a lot about links lately and wrote about why underlining links is a good idea, how it's easy to style them properly with CSS, and the pros and cons of opening links in a new tab/window (spoiler alert: it's almost entirely cons!). Here's your full rundown:

1. Why you should (almost) always underline your links
2. Styling underlines with CSS
3. Include a date on your blog posts
4. Staging different parts of the same file with Git
5. Splitting a hunk in Git’s patch mode
6. 3D touch is gone on Apple Watch
7. First impressions of iOS 14
8. Opening links in a new tab or window is better avoided

Elsewhere on the web

• The Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 1999 – amazing that all ten of these still hold true, over 21 years later
• The Android back button and why we cling to redundant features from a couple of years ago, but an interesting take I stumbled upon when researching my article on links opening in a new tab/window
• VoiceOver on iOS 14 Supports Description Lists by Adrian Roselli
• An interesting Twitter thread questioning colour contrast ratio recommendations

See you again at the end of October! 👋