Web Design: Jail Birds

Monday, July 3, 2017

Jail Birds

The Story of a New Name

Front-end

First up, a virtual showroom built using WebGL and WebVR [showroom.littleworkshop].

And the text of a talk covering the future of JavaScript [ponyfoo].

How to get a “full-page” screenshot in a browser [css-tricks].

How to rename fonts in CSS [zachleat].

It Gets Better

Back-end/programming

An intro to Website Speed Test [sitepoint], a way to test if your images are slowing down your site (they probably are) (but this will tell you by how much).

Emoji in SQL? You betcha [baldi]. Also: be careful and do not try in an important project.

Better PHP Development [sitepoint] is our latest book covering everything you need to know to become a better PHP dev.

8 must-have PHP quality assurance tools [sitepoint]. You can be assured of their quality.

Landbot.io [landbot.io] turns any landing page into a chat bot.

An intro to VulcanJS: an open source project to “Meteorize” (great word) GraphQL [blog.meteor].

react-native-ui-kitten [github/akveo] is a customizable React Native UI kit.

A workshop covering Go tooling [github/campoy].

Flee at Last

Design/UX/product

Typehue [typehue] is a weekly design and type challenge, where you’re given a letter and a color and you need to do the best you can with it.

Free, Fee, or Flee [freefeeflee] is a guide for new designers on whether to do work for free, for a fee, or to just flee. Nothing on what to do if your client is a flea, but I assume if that happens you can go back to the decision tree again.

How Google redesigned Google News [blog.google].

Jail Birds

News/business

Women in tech have spoken out about the sector’s culture of harassment [nytimes]. You’ve probably seen this shared widely over the weekend, but you should actually read it, it’s distressing and the women who came forward should be celebrated.

An excerpt from a book detailing the early days of the smartphone industry, covering the six-month race to take the iPhone from flashy but empty to prototype to a flashy but empty real product [wired].

A profile of Fairphone, the ethical smartphone startup that is wanting Apple to steal its ideas [motherboard.vice].

A look at the rise and fall of iPhone jailbreaking [motherboard.vice].

The rise of the thought leader [newrepublic].

Is Amazon getting too big? [usatoday]. Yeah, probably.

Did life on Earth come from space? [motherboard.vice]. Yeah, probably.

Fiverr Pro [fiverr] is a new section on the freelancing/gig site for high-quality, experienced professionals.

Beat Matching

Everything else

Wikipedia: the text adventure [kevan].

A bot that’ll show you pages from Smithsonian scanned books [twitter/artbrowsing].

Just a website that’ll play cat purring noises forever [purrli].

Finally, “Beat Shazaam” is the TV show literally no-one asked for but that I’ll probably watch [motherboard.vice].

There ya go, Versioning for a nice little Monday. I was very, very happy to see ya'll tweetering about how much you like this little newsletter, I hope those tweets will mean we'll have even more Versioning members from here on in. You're all legends, thank you. I'll be back tomorrow, right after I introduce the cat purring website to my actual cat. I have a feeling they'll have a lot in common.

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