Web Design: Midas Well

We Did It!

Earlier this week we hit a big milestone. There are now more than 30,000 brilliant, passionate, loyal fans reading Versioning.

Versioning has become a much bigger focus for me over the past few months and, of late, it's been growing rapidly.

That's kinda down to you. For the years of support (particularly during my unscheduled absence last year), the word of mouth, the kind social words, the links. It's all been immensely helpful.

It's rather amazing to have such brilliant minds tuning into Versioning. Leaders from Adobe, Harvard (Crimson pride!), Yale (go Bulldogs!), PayPal (...PayPal!), Oracle and Sony to name just a few.

There are 30,000 of you legends, but I think there are more people out there who'd like it as well. Maybe we can take this to 300,000, or at least 30,001.

Can you help? Yes you can! Keep spreading the word.

Jump on the Twitter (people still use Twitter, right?) Tweet me and tell fellow Twitterers why Versioning is a can't miss part of your daily routine. What do you love about it?

Stuck for ideas? Tweet your favorite thing from today's edition.

If you don't have Twitter, reply to this email, I'm all ears (eyes).

Lastly, there's an extra special thing at the end of today's edition, so make sure you scroll to the bottom.

Thanks for coming along for the ride. Here's to some big plans (I'll reveal those shortly) and our success. 🍻

Now, where was I? Oh, yeah, links!

-Adam

Lost and Found

Front-end

First up, back to basics: what are JavaScript callbacks, anyway? [sitepoint]

Foundation 6.4 is out, here’s a run-down on what’s new [designmodo].

The case against TDD [blogs.msdn.microsoft].

To the Victor Go the Spoilers

Back-end/programming

Node.js performance monitoring with Prometheus [blog.risingstack]. Prometheus was a pretty rubbish film, but this sounds like a pretty non-rubbish Node monitoring and alerting tool.

How to internationalize your WordPress theme [sitepoint].

FYI Rails people: All the RailsCasts Pro episodes are now free [railscasts].

A collection of APIs [apilist]. There you go, now you have no excuse not to build something great.

A new tool to defend your ports using the power of film or TV spoilers [github/infobyte]. Be careful when looking at the examples provided, that’s all I’ll say.

A collection of bash snippets for heavy terminal users [github/alexanderepstein].

Flick of a Switch

Design/UX/product

As a new Nintendo Switch owner (ZELDA), this appealed to me: thoughts on the Switch UI [medium.freecodecamp].

When design sprints go [sitepoint], an episode of the True North podcast.

How PayPal onboards new users [useronboard].

Midas Well

News/business

There are now two billion people on Facebook [techcrunch]. Which is weird, because I only have a few friends. Also, it’s still growing, and everyone uses it all the time. That part checks out.

Hacker Hunt [hackerhunt] is like a little Product Hunt-style interface for Hacker News.

How to define success [medium/the-year-of-the-looking-glass]. Trigger warning: uses the term “wantrepreneur”.

Great ways to dismiss tech [ben-evans].

Um, scienticians have captured videos of a (mouse) brain working in real time [kurzweilai]. Reminds me of literally every bit of sci-fi ever.

Canadian space man Chris Hadfield explains the skills you’ll need to settle space [motherboard.vice].

Remote stash [remotestash] is a collection of resources for remote workers.

And Remote Junior has remote jobs for junior-level people and graduates [remotejunior].

Midas [fetch.amplemarket] will tell you lots about a given person from their email address.

Cut the Corde

Everything else

BotList [botlist] has all the bots you could ever want or need.

An ever-changing list of the top 500 cryptocurrencies [500coins]. Let me know the weirdest ones you see! I saw UFO Coin, I feel like I could’ve done better.

Omni [beomni] is like a time-share for everyday items. Nothing weird, I think.

Tweeten http://go.sitepoint.com/t/y-tw-<$Enc.CampaignID$>-<$Enc.SubscriberID$>-il/ is a new, TweetDeck-based Twitter app that looks nice. It has good gif and emoji support so: sold.

An intro to Jamf Now, a service for managing and protecting your Apple devices [sitepoint].

Hands-on with StarCraft: Remastered [arstechnica].

Finally, Culture Concorde [itunes.apple] is a curated music service. Mmmm, curation.

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Well, there you have it. That'll do it for the week. Thank you again for all you've done to share Versioning with more people. You're good, and I like you. I'll be back with more next week, I'll realistically spend my weekend on Zelda but will at least try and learn a bit more about React or Node via Wes. Or just gaze at cryptocurrencies.

Do the thing you're already doing so well and share this with someone you like!