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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .

The authority of conscience now steps up front (the more emancipated one is from theology, the more imperativistic morality becomes) to compensate for the loss of a personal authority. Or the authority of reason.

Will to Power

Friedrich Nietzsche

Instead of IT Operations doing manual work that comes from work tickets, it enables developer productivity through APIs and self-serviced platforms that create environments, test and deploy code, monitor and display production telemetry, and so forth. By doing this, IT Operations becomes more like Development (as do QA and Infosec), engaged in product development, where the product is the platform that developers use to safely, quickly, and securely test, deploy, and run their IT services in production.

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren

Using colour as a singular visual cue can make it hard for people with low visual acuity or colour blindness to comprehend that content. By applying an additional variable it will help users to differentiate information and process it. For example, simple tricks such as text labels or patterns can help differentiate information beyond colour alone i.e. use in charts. [Trello’s colourblind mode](https://twitter.com/trello/status/543420024166174721?lang=en) is a brilliant exponent of this.

The A to Z of UX — A is for Accessibility: 12 tips for designing an inclusive user experience

Darren Wilson

...catch up on these, and many more highlights