When you're working with designers and UX, it's occasionally helpful to have a grid on the page in order to help with layouts. I used to love working with graph (construction) paper when I was younger, and I thought it'd be cool to be able to do this without using a background image.

See the Pen Graph Paper CSS only background by Pete (@peterbenoit) on CodePen.

As a bonus, here's a Bookmarklet you can add to your browser so you can use it on demand. GridMe!

Taking a break from Coronavirus this morning to read about how the big tech companies handle your data. While this isn't new news, I hadn't seen it delivered like this before.

Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. Google runs code on approximately 85% of sites on the Web and inside as many as 94% of apps in the Play store. It collects data about users’ every click, tap, query, and movement from all of those sources and more.

via eff.org/

Security and Privacy are very different. Think “Google is very secure but not private”.

For example, for privacy we often want deniability—you can’t prove a statement came from me. For security we might want authenticity (you know the statement is from me and not an impostor) or even non-repudiation (I can’t sign a contract then later claim I never signed it).

One reliable absolute in security and privacy is there are no absolutes.