Web Design: Ops, I Did it Again

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Ops, I Did it Again

Sock It to Me

Front-end

First up, how to move a modal along a path [css-tricks].

Why and how to switch from React to Cycle.js [sitepoint].

A beginner’s guide to GreenSock and web animation [sitepoint].

And a look at Component.io [sitepoint], a tool that can supplement a CMS or build a simple, multi-page site with minimal HTML.

Ops, I Did It Again

Back-end/programming

An intro to “mistake-proofing” your projects [sitepoint].

4 reasons to get a CDN for your WordPress site [sitepoint].

DevOps-ers: take this survey and tell the world about your lives! [logz]. Professional lives, I mean, but you could go into your private life as well if you wanted.

Could Facebook be hosted on AWS? [blog.sqlizer]. Weird that Facebook have never tried this - I bet they’d get a great deal!

And and intro to the Image Capture API [developers.google].

Magic Wormhole [github/warner] is a tool for getting stuff from one computer to another, without resorting to an email to yourself, a USB stick, Dropbox or throwing a hard drive around the room (my preferred method).

Wake Up Call

Design/UX/product

This is useful - the fonts and colors used by Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, Instagram and more[sitepoint].

A rundown of Sketch 45 [blog.sketchapp].

The UX of the iOS alarm app sucks [twentysomethings], which is something I’ve thought every single day at about 7am (OK, fine, 7:25am).

Dumbing Down

News/business

Google has to pay the European Union a tiny (for Google) 2.4 billion euro fine for skewing search results to favor its own shopping site, but that could be the tip of the iceberg [bloomberg].

Meanwhile, in Canada, the Supreme Court ordered Google to alter search results to remove a counterfeiter[arstechnica].

Scienticians say the mere presence of a smartphone makes us dumb and useless [journals.uchicago]. Just going on my knowledge of people and the world: yes.

Fascinating: these truckers work alongside the coders working to eliminate the concept of truckers [bloomberg].

A look at the potential downsides to sending messages into space. What if there are aliens out there and they murder us? [nytimes].

Normal Software [normalsoftware] is kinda like Stack Share but for normal, non-fancy businesses and organisations.

My Desk [and] is a task manager for freelancers. It would probably work for everyone though.

The definitive guide to making a podcast like NPR [okdork]. As in: good.

Silent Mode

Everything else

Paul Ford offers a meditation on noise, silence, technology and stage-fright [mailchi.mp/postlight]. It’s good and you should read it.

10 (more) tricks to appear smart in meetings [thecooperreview]. Kinda seems like the article is conflating a lot of unrelated issues in a non-synergistic way.

Google Photos has some fancy new sharing features [macstories].

Finally, Teens answer: is Apple cool? [motherboard.vice]. As the Simpsons have argued: if you’re truly cool, you don’t need to be told you’re cool.

Consider yourself "Versioned" for Thursday. I'll have a little bit more tomorrow. When I'm doing that, I'll try to put my phone away, and make sure I action the PRD to leverage our thought leadership in a synergistic way.

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