Links

• Alan Fisher on Twitter

  Squad goals

• Early Zoning and the War on Multifamily Housing

  But the other purpose was to crack down on communal and rental living arrangements that many of the early zoning proponents found morally objectionable.

  An interesting review of zoning history. I’m in favor of more multi-family housing, especially the kind of communal arrangements mentioned like “lodgers.” But I’d honestly have a hard time personally moving our family from our detached home into a multi-family building.

• IPA Reader

  This is a tool for reading International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) notation aloud

  Also THIS is awesome. Saw this on Tess's website where she has her name pronunciation linked https://tess.oconnor.cx/

• Link colors and the rule of tincture

  But I prefer to think of [heraldry] as one of the earliest design systems.

  This is a fun read: applying the rules of heraldry to web design.

  h/t https://adactio.com/links/20562

• event.target.closest

  You can switch things around. Instead of adding lots of event handlers to lots of elements, you can add one event handler to the root element. Then figure out whether the element that just got clicked is special or not.

  This is a good short article on JS event handling.