After successfully hatching critically endangered Batagur turtles in captivity, officials at the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (STR) would release a batch of the hatchlings in the Sunderbans mid-2014.

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Or the priority navigation pattern, or progressively collapsing navigation menu. We can name it in at least three ways..

There are multiple UX solutions for tabs and menus and each of them have their own advantages over another, you just need to pick the best for the case you are trying to solve. At design and development agency Kollegorna we were debating on the most appropriate UX technique for tabs for our client’s website…

I wrote an article, coded a demo and got it all published on CSS-Tricks — you're very welcome to read, try and use it!

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Hubble identified about 30 fragments on April 20, and 25 pieces on April 23.

When conditions are warm and moist, such as those near a sweating body, the fabric allows heat to pass through. When conditions become cooler and drier, the fabric reduces the heat that escapes, researchers said.

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Ben Cohen wanted to take on the man. He enlisted the San Francisco maker community, and built a noisy, carnivalesque, vaudeville-style device, full of bright-colored wood and plastic and metal, to drive around the country and stamp slogans on money.

Angry Nerd is ready to demote Captain America from his current rank to lieutenant. In the Marvel superhero’s newest movie adaptation, his vibranium shield defies everything that physics and materials science has taught us. Angry Nerd calls blasphemy on the ingredient-altered shield.

Industrial Light & Magic was tasked with updating the helicarriers in the new film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. FXguide’s Mike Seymour talks to the visual effects company to find out what new details were added to the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircrafts, and how the effects team created a digital modeling environment for the epic helicarrier crash scene.

It’s more than just a prop. Vic Mignogna, who stars as Captain Kirk in “Star Trek Continues,” shows us the famous Captain’s chair and explains how the set designer re-created a replica of the original version, down to the hand-poured control buttons.

In the latest incarnation of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Andy Serkis and Toby Kebbell deliver human motion-capture performances to help bring the realistic apes to life. Shot with a combination of high-speed cameras, Mike Seymour breaks down the tech behind shooting the motion-capture scenes on location versus on a sound stage.

When it comes to film adaptations of comic-books, the source material should always be treated as gospel, right? Wrong. Angry Nerd explains why, and shares his concerns for Frank Miller's upcoming Sin City: A Dame to Kill For—which could end up being too faithful for its own good.

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“Jurassic World” debuted with a record-shattering opening weekend, netting nearly half a billion dollars. See how Industrial Light & Magic used motion capture to help design the complex dinosaurs, including the genetically modified Indominus rex.

Marine captain Katie Higgins is the first female pilot to fly in the Blue Angels stunning air shows. She pilots “Fat Albert” a C-130 cargo transporter that is a crowd favorite for its low passes, dives and backwards taxi.

The jerboa looks like a cross between a mouse and a tiny kangaroo and wow, can it hop! The rodents' elongated, powerful legs can propel the little fur balls as far as six feet.

WIRED's David Pierce reviews the Surface Book, Microsoft's kick-ass laptop that the company figured out how to turn into a convertible hybrid PC.

Tired of having to talk to hotel staff? Welcome to the automated future at Japan's robot hotel.

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If you thought the civilian version of the Ford F-150 was a bit much, it’s time you met its ripping off-road cousin, the Raptor.

Civil War is a rock-’em-sock-’em stand-off that features no fewer than four massive fights and, even at 146 minutes, feels gargantuan but never over-stuffed. It’s a Captain America movie, yes, but it’s more about the struggle between consent and dissent.

Nike's Tinker Hatfield and Tiffany Beers explain the new power-lacing HyperAdapt 1.0 and demonstrate how to charge the sneakers, and tighten and loosen the laces with the touch of a button.

The Microsoft Surface Laptop is a great-looking, light and super usable notebook. Here's more about why we love it.

‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ star Andy Serkis is the world’s greatest motion capture performer. His abilities are so in-demand that much of the technology behind motion capture has evolved along with his performances. Andy breaks down some of the major moments of his career along with how the filmmaking tools have changed alongside it. 'War for the Planet of the Apes' is now available on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD #WarForthePlanet

There's a good reason the FAA doesn't want passengers packing their laptops in checked luggage. There they can overheat and ignite and even explode if packed with aerosol cans.

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Joseph Herscher builds wildly fun Rube Goldberg-style machines to make his life easier. Sort of. Here's how he built a new contraption to feed him his lunch.

Dr. Edith Widder and a team of scientists captured the first footage of a live giant squid in U.S. waters. WIRED's Matt Simon spoke with Widder to learn the story behind the video.

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For the past decade, brands have been capitalizing on the pervasiveness of social media in consumers’ daily lives and shopping habits. And this past year was no different.

Social media analytics company Unmetric found that brands that promoted messaging with edge, savvy, conviction—and occasionally dogs—won the marketing game.

Of that messaging, video—particularly those with memorable storylines, guest appearances or creative approaches to addressing social issues—reined as the overall best-performing format for branded and original content, a consistent trend in their numbers since at least 2015.

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I am going to write a “CSS for JavaScripters” book, and therefore I need to figure out how to explain CSS to JavaScripters. This series of article snippets are a sort of try-out — pre-drafts I’d like to get feedback on in order to figure out if I’m on the right track.

Today I present the first draft of the short overflow article. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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"Web design is a constant battle against overflow."

- Rachel Andrew

Not knowing how tall something is is fundamental to web design. For instance, you cannot know in advance how long the texts will be that will be shown in your site. What happens if if the final text is much longer than the fake text you used during production? Or what if there's a wide image you hadn't counted on?

In both cases the content of your blocks will become larger than you expected, and if you've given them a fixed width or height that might lead to overflow: content escaping from the block — or at least, attempting to escape.

The easiest way to avoid overflow is not giving your blocks a fixed height in the first place. If you allow them to grow as tall and wide as they need to be you avoid quite a few problems.

This short chapter discusses how to deal with overflow.

CSS Is Awesome

The most famous example of overflow is the "CSS is Awesome" meme that's been around ever since 2009.

Born out of one web developer's frustration with CSS's overflow behavior, this meme took on a life of its own and became an example of what was wrong with CSS. Why would the 'Awesome' flow out of the box? Why should CSS be so complicated? Couldn't the box simply grow to contain the 'Awesome'?

Sure it could! And it would, except that you specifically instructed the box not to by giving it a fixed width. You could have used min-width or flexbox — both are good in dealing with unexpectedly large content — but you didn't. No doubt you had good reasons, but since it was your decision, the onus of solving any resulting issues is on you.

In these cases, the overflow declaration is your friend.

The overflow declaration

The overflow declaration allows you to define what to do with content that overflows its box. It has four values, visible, hidden, scroll, and auto. The default value is visible, and that's the one that causes the 'CSS is Awesome' effect.

overflow: visible means that you allow the content to spill out of its block. Although that keeps the content readable, it also means the content might overlap with the block below or to the right of the affected block, which can be very ugly.

When calculating the position of other blocks, the browsers' layout algorithm uses the width and height of the box you defined, and disregards the fact that content may be spilling out of the block. In fact, at that point in the algorithm the browsers have no way of knowing that the content overflows. [FACT-CHECK THIS]

Thus, when calculating the position of the next block the browsers place the block exactly where it should be given the height of the previous block and the margins of both. They do not pay the overflow any mind, wbich may cause the overflowing content to overlap the content of the next block.

Sometimes this is what you want — or rather, what you’re forced to live with. More often, though, you want to either generate scrollbars or hide the overflowing content entirely.

overflow: hidden hides the overflowing content. This creates a pleasing visual effect, but now there's no way for the user to get to the content. Therefore, hidden is something of a nuclear option: necessary in a few cases, but to be avoided whenever there's a better way of handling the situation.

overflow: scroll and overflow: auto generate scrollbars. The auto value generates scrollbars when they're necessary, while scroll scroll value always does so, even when no scrollbars are needed.

If scroll always generates those ungainly scrollbars, even when they're not needed, and auto only generates them when necessary, why would you ever use scroll? The reason is that a content change that generates or removes a scrollbar can be quite ugly.

Suppose you have a block with overflow: auto that initially does not need scrollbars. Then a script adds a lot of content to the block, causing overflow, and thus the generation of a scrollbar. Not only is this quite ugly in itself, but on some systems [BE MORE SPECIFIC] the scrollbar itself takes up about 16px of width and thus narrows the content area, which may lead to the reflowing of the text and even more overflow. And when the content is removed, all of that happens in reverse.

All this can give a quite jarring effect. For instance, see the position of the word "serves" in the two screenshots below. The creation of a scrollbar forces it to the next line, and that might be something you want to avoid.

The easiest way of preventing that effect is by giving the block overflow: scroll from the outset. Sure, the scrollbars may not be needed, but if they are there's no moving around of the content.

Block Formatting Context

[This is a practical tip that readers need to know about.]

An overflow value of anything but visible will create a new block formatting context. In old-fashioned float-based layouts it is sometimes necessary to create a block formatting context in order to contain a bunch of floats. (Just nod wisely for the moment; we'll get back to this.)

The easiest way of doing this is to add overflow: auto to the block, even though the block has no set height and the content will never actually overflow.

So if you're working in an old codebase and encounter a bunch of unexplained overflow: auto (or hidden) declarations on blocks that have height: auto, remember that they're meant to keep a float-based layout working properly. Only remove those overflows once you switched from floats to a modern layout system like grid or flex. If you do not intend to switch, leave the overflows in place as well.

Related declarations

In addition to the overflow declaration, there are also overflow-x and overflow-y declarations. They do what you'd expect them to do: they set the overflow on only the horizontal x-axis, or only the vertical y-axis. Otherwise they work exactly like overflow.

Also, iOS supports overflow-scrolling: touch, which enables momentum-based scrolling for overflowing elements. Without this declaration (or, more precisely, with the default overflow-scrolling: auto in place), overflowing elements scroll normally, i.e. they stop scrolling as soon as your finger leaves the screen. Android devices always use momentum-based scrolling, so they do not need this declaration. It doesn't hurt them, either, so it's perfectly safe to use. [TEST]

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The ending is a bit abrupt, but I'm not entirely sure what to say next. Also, I'm not yet sure which chapter will come next, so I can't write a segue.

Anyway, please let me know what you think. I'm especially looking for feedback from JavaScript developers who are not all that good at CSS.

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Imagine you’re ready to apply for your next job. Like most busy professionals, you probably haven’t updated your résumé or your portfolio since you looked for your current job. 

Now you need to update both, and you can’t remember what work you’ve done over the past few years. (In fact, you can barely remember what you’ve done over the past few months!)

So you scramble to update your résumé with new content. Then you spend all weekend scraping together a new portfolio using screenshots of whatever work evidence you can find on your laptop. You submit the résumé and portfolio with your application, hoping you didn’t forget to include any major career milestones you achieved over the last few years. 

This is the process most of us use to approach our job search. We wait until we’re ready to find a job, panic at our lack of résumé and portfolio, and pull together a “good enough” version of each for the job application. (Trust me, I’ve done this many times myself.)

This is a stressful and ineffective way to approach a job search. There’s a much better approach you can take—and you can start working on it now, even if you’re not on the job market.

The Career Management Document

A Career Management Document (CMD) is a comprehensive collection of your résumé and portfolio content. It’s a document you update regularly, over time, with all the work you’ve done. 

When you’re ready to apply for your next job, you’ll have all the résumé and portfolio pieces available in your CMD. All you need to do is assemble those pieces into résumé and portfolio documents, then send the documents off with your job application.

I update my CMD about once a week. I start by reviewing evidence of my recent work. I review Slack messages, Basecamp posts, emails, and any other current work-related content. I write my accomplishments in the format of résumé bullets, using the framework of responsibilities and accomplishments from this Manager Tools podcast. Then I add those bullets to the CMD. 

Here are some examples from my CMD:

• Coached a student on writing a stronger portfolio story to showcase their advanced UX skills, resulting in the student getting a job interview.
• Facilitated an end-of-study analysis in under 90 minutes to help the team synthesize user research data from 12 participants.
• Led a remote retrospective with teams in two offices, developed actionable takeaways, and ended on time despite a delayed start.

My CMD has several hundred résumé bullets, and it continues to grow. I organize content by year and by project. Within each project are responsibilities and accomplishments.

I add any content to the CMD that might go into my résumé someday. I include everything I can think of, even if it seems insignificant or trivial at the time. 

For example, I sometimes help with social media marketing at Center Centre, the UX design school where I’m a faculty member. I include it in my CMD. I don’t plan to pursue social media marketing as a career, but it may be relevant to a future job. Who knows—I may apply to work for an organization that makes social media marketing software someday. In that case, my social media experience could be relevant.

Include portfolio artifacts with your CMD

In addition to capturing bullets for my résumé, I capture content for my portfolio. Each week, I gather screenshots of my work, photos of me working with the team, and any other artifacts I can find. I store them in an organized system I can reference later. 

I also take brief notes about the work I did and store them with the artifacts. That way, if I look back at these materials a year from now, I’ll have notes about what I did during the project, reminding me of the details.

For example, after I facilitated a user research analysis session late last year, I captured evidence of it for my portfolio. I included photos of the whiteboard where I recorded public notes during the session. I also captured brief notes about who attended the session, the date, and when it took place during the project. 

You can use whatever tools you’d like to gather evidence of your work. I use Google Docs for the résumé portion of my CMD. I use Dropbox to store my portfolio artifacts. I create Dropbox folders with dates and project names that correspond to the contents of my CMD.

The key is to collect the evidence regularly and store it in an accessible, organized way that works for you. To know if you’re storing work evidence effectively, ask yourself, “Will I understand this CMD content a year from now based on how I’m capturing and storing it today?” If the answer is “yes,” you’re in good shape.

Update your CMD regularly

For the CMD to work when you need it, it needs to be comprehensive and up-to-date. As I mentioned before, I update my CMD once a week. I schedule thirty minutes on my calendar each week so I remember to do it. 

Sometimes I have a busy week, and I can’t spend thirty minutes on my CMD. So I spend whatever amount of time I have. Some weeks, I only spend ten minutes. Ten minutes per week is better than zero minutes per week. 

Occasionally, I don’t get a chance to update it because my week is so hectic. That’s OK because I’ll probably get to it the following week. 

I recommend updating your CMD once a week and not once a month or once a quarter. If you wait even a month, you’ll have trouble remembering what you did three and a half weeks ago. Even worse, if you schedule a CMD update once a month and then miss it, you won’t get to it until the next month. That means you have to think back and remember two months of work, which is hard to do. 

Updating your CMD every week, while the work is fresh in your mind, gets the best results.

The CMD benefits you in additional ways

The CMD can help you prepare for your job search beyond your résumé and your portfolio. 

You can use it to prepare for a job interview. Since you’re capturing work evidence from each stage of the process in your CMD, you can use that evidence to remember what you did throughout a project. Then, you can craft a story about your role on that project. 

Hiring managers love to hear stories about your work during job interviews. For instance, if you’re a designer, they want to know the journey you took during your design process, from the start of a project to the end. A detailed CMD will help you remember this process so you can share it in an interview. 

I’ve even used my CMD to write blog posts. I’ve been blogging regularly for the past two years, and I often refer to my CMD to remember work experience I had that’s relevant to what I’m writing. When I wrote the article “How to Tell Compelling Stories During a UX Job Interview,” I used my CMD to remember interview preparation exercises I did with students. 

The CMD can also help you track work accomplishments for your quarterly or annual performance reviews. Additionally, you can use it to write job ads when hiring for related roles on your team.

Lastly, I find it rewarding to peruse my CMD now and then, especially when I look back at work I did over a year ago. The CMD serves as a record of all my professional accomplishments. This record helps me appreciate my professional growth because I see how far my skills have come over time.

Learn more about the CMD from Manager Tools

At Center Centre, we originally learned about the Career Management Document through the Manager Tools podcast series.

Manager Tools’ podcasts explain how to use a CMD for your résumé. We expanded their approach to include portfolio work as well. I recommend listening to their podcasts about creating and maintaining your CMD:

• Systematic Career Documentation (Part 1)
• Systematic Career Documentation (Part 2)

Prepare for your next job search now

We tell our students at Center Centre that preparing for your next job search is a process that starts early. It’s like saving for retirement—the sooner you start saving money, the more likely you are to be prepared when the time comes. 

Similarly, collecting résumé and portfolio content ahead of time will prepare you to find your next job whenever you’re ready to do so. It also prepares you for a sudden job termination like an unexpected layoff. If you lose your job without warning, you’ll likely be under a lot of stress to find a new position. Having a CMD ready will relieve the additional stress of building a résumé and portfolio from scratch. 

If you don’t have a CMD yet, now is a great time to start one. Schedule 30 minutes this week to begin crafting your repository of work accomplishments. You’ll be glad you did when you seek your next job.

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