Web Design: On the Playground Was Where I Spent Most of My Days

Friday, July 14, 2017

On the Playground Was Where I Spent Most of My Days

Front-end

Firstly, various ways to organize CSS [css-tricks]. My favorite one, “badly”, was not on the list!

GPU Accelerated JavaScript [github/gpujs] lets you use your computer’s GPU for what it was designed for: running JavaScript.

Seven of the best code playgrounds [sitepoint].

The Full Package

Back-end/programming

How to build a JavaScript package manager [yarnpkg].

Embedded Learning Library [github/microsoft] lets you run machine learning on Raspberry Pis, Arduinos and other microcontrollers.

GitPoint [github/gitpoint] is a React Native-build iOS app for GitHub that I’m sad to say, despite the name, has nothing to do with us.

With scribbletune [github/walmik] lets you generate musical patterns with JavaScript and export the results as MIDI.

A free, printable, Markdown cheat sheet [sitepoint].

Cache Me Outside

Design/UX/product

A guide. To getting, your punctuation; and grammar. Right [sitepoint].

Sketch Cache Cleaner [yo-op.github].

A video intro to Framer’s gradients feature [youtube].

Abstract [goabstract] is a platform for enabling/improving designer/developer teamwork.

This is very great: empathy prompts [empathyprompts] provide opportunities to experience the web from the perspective of someone with a condition that makes the web less accessible.

Monkey Business

News/business

I am very into this fontgate scandal in Pakistan [theguardian]. Short version: a doc is believed to be forged because it’s dated 2006, but is written in Calibri, a font not available until 2007. While we’re at it, has anyone looked into the fonts used in the moon landing footage?

Looks like the fancy version of the new iPhone will have frickin lasers strapped to its back [fastcompany], which is fine, I guess?

Ravens are terrifyingly smart [motherboard.vice]. For one thing, they can plan ahead. Well, the scientists say “plan” - I prefer “plot”.

This new luxury Audi – you know, the one you’ll never afford – is the first production car to reach “level 3 autonomy”[theverge]. About as smart as 0.5 ravens, in other words.

An update on the “selfie monkey” case [motherboard.vice]. It’s possible there are multiple monkeys, for one thing.

How to handle being in the media [trackchanges.postlight].

Final Fantasy

Everything else

Final [getfinal] is one of those virtual credit card dealies that’ll make evading hacks/drug dealing easier for ya.

I can’t decide if Atlas Recall [atlas], a platform that’ll remember and make searchable everything you do on your devices, is amazing or terrifying. Amazifying, how about that?

Seven iPhone apps that help with ADHD [motherboard.vice].

Looks like Google Drive is going full Dropbox [arstechnica], with the new option to back up folders on your computer.

Finally, a 5-year quest to unglue the MacBook Pro’s battery has resulted in success [motherboard.vice]. Big news for repairers and hobbyists.

There's Versioning for another day, nay, a week! I have a lot of things to unglue over the weekend, but first I need to check whether any of my font choices could endanger my professional or political career. Everyone loves Papyrus, right?

I'll be back on Tuesday as I'm taking Monday off for reasons, but I'm sure hardly anything will happen online between now and then! Until then, just watch yourself around ravens, OK? They're too smart.

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