Happy Easter everyone! It was a slow week for me and thus it’s the shortest list since starting the Weekly Recap series, I apologise. Nevertheless, enjoy the links and don’t forget so spend some time with your family. Cheers!

• CSSconf EU 2014
  After the huge success last year, the CSSconf EU is coming back this year. I hope to be there this year.

• gulp – The vision, history, and future of the project
  Interesting background information on gulp.js.

• Picturefill
  Picturefill Version 2 (Alpha) with native picture element support by Scott Jehl is here.

• WordPress 3.9 “Smith”
  Version 3.9 of WordPress was released this week. It features easier image upload and editing and much more. I use it on this blog since it’s early alpha and recommend you update you blog, too.

• Hassle Free Responsive Images for WordPress
  Interesting and well done solution but I’m hesitant to using it because if one would ever disable this plugin, all the shortcodes and therefore all images won’t work anymore.

• IcoMoon
  If you work with icon fonts, this is THE web app for you. I use it all the time to create custom icon fonts.

Hello everyone, feeling good today? You should, it’s Weekly Recap day! There was actually plenty of things going on the past week. Julia Ann Horvath talking about why she had to leave GitHub, an indiegogo campaign for implementing picture in Blink and much more. Enjoy!

• Picture element implementation in Blink
  Okay everyone, listen up. We need to support this indiegogo campaign so that Yoav Weiss can get to work fulltime on implementing picture into blink and thus help all of us and probably push other vendors to do the same. I gave $50. Come on, we can do this!

• Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
  In case you haven’t heard of it, this is the story of why Julia Ann Horvath left GitHub. I am angry about is happening to women in this industry and I hope the people responsible will be held accountable.

• Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
  More on the Julie Ann Horvath story. GitHub sent the Co-Founder and Engineer in question on leave and starts investigating.

• Leaving & Loving Microsoft Not exactly a development topic, but rather a design one, but nice to hear someone talking about Microsoft and actually saying good things.

• Bug 349259 – CSS Property ‚line-height‘ has no effects on input text fields
  Finally we will be able to set line-height on text boxes & button elements in Firefox. This fix will be going live in with Version 30.

• Browserhacks
  Not specifically tied to this week, but a very good resource you should know of. It’s not a good thing to write browserhacks, but sometimes you just have to and then you’ll be thankful for Browserhacks.com

• CSS-Tricks v11
  Chris Coyier explains the thinkings behind the latest CSS-Tricks redesign.

• Scroll Depth
  A Google Analytics plugin that measures how far down the page users are scrolling. Very good idea.

• CSS Nostalgia
  A short trip down memory lane till CSS sprites.

• CodePen Radio
  The guys behind CodePen are doing a podcast documenting their growth as a business. They talk about tech, workflows, money, etc. It’s really interesting and highly recommended.

• Why RWD Looks Like RWD
  Tim Kadlec tries to find an explanation for why RWD sites tend to share visual similarities. Is the often criticised waterfall process to blame?

• Thoughts on Media Queries for Elements
  Oh how I’d love to see this implemented:

.widget:media(max-width: 30em) {
    /* styles */
}

Mat Marquis:

It’s hard to imagine why there’s been such a vehement defense of the img set markup. The picture element provides a wider number of potential use cases, has two functional polyfills today (while an efficient polyfill may not even be possible with the img set pattern), and has seen an unprecedented level of support from the developer community.

Great piece by Mat Marquis about the current state of proposed solutions for responsive images markup. On the one hand there is the img set and on the other hand the, to me and many other developers, much better picture element.
Make sure to stay up to date and read the whole piece.