The tools we choose can have a major impact on how we access web platform features – and, if we’re not careful, can block us out of new features all-together.

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When Our Tools Hold Us Back

What happens if the ‘pace layers’ get out of sync?

Repost from OddBird.net

Nested semicircles, from innermost and slowest to outermost and fastest-moving: nature, culture, governance, infrastructure, commerce, fashion

An article on OddBird, where I spend some time exploring the different ways our design and code tools intervene between us and the web platform.

Ask not just: How well does it work? But also: How well does it fail? What happens when something goes wrong?

—Jeremy Keith