Web Design: The Quest to Design the Pefect Slider

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Slide On In

Front-end

First up, If you didn’t get a chance to fill out our survey earlier this week, I’m overjoyed to tell you that you still can! It should take two minutes, will get you a six-month membership to SitePoint Premium - ie: lots of free, great books and courses - and the chance to win a 12” MacBook [sitepoint.typeform].

The quest to design the perfect slider [smashingmagazine].

An intro to building a Reddit clone using React and Firebase [sitepoint].

Dig In

Back-end/programming

A guide to using AMP with WordPress [sitepoint].

Digger-VR [github/devblazer] is a browser-based VR Minecraft game. Thanks to Ashley for emailing that through, and don’t be bashful about promoting your stuff - we need more of that!

Interesting piece from The Guardian on how they generated images in JavaScript, without using the Canvas API, in order to send them to readers as notifications [medium/the-guardian-mobile-innovation].

A guide to building your first serverless web app using Amazon Lambda [aws.amazon].

After selling millions and millions of phones, plus a few other devices, Apple has taken the next logical step: the company has started a blog, focused on machine learning [machinelearning]. I mean, it’s funny to me now, but things will be different when they start a daily newsletter…

What one dev learned after a year of live coding on Twitch [medium.freecodecamp].

Flow Rider

Design/UX/product

The best UI interaction GIFs of July [medium/collect-ui-design-ui-ux-inspiration-blog].

Check out Flow, a typeface built for wireframing [danross].

Sketch material [websiddu] is a Sketch plugin that’ll help you generate complex material components easily.

Feed Me Seymour

News/business

Samsung uses some interesting language to describe its male and female “Bixby” assistants [gizmodo]. The male assistant is “confident” and “assertive”, the female version is “chipper” and “cheerful”. I can think of some gender-neutral, but fairly negative, terms to describe such a move.

Space X looks to have pulled out of sending an autonomous Dragon to Mars [arstechnica]. And when you put it that way, sure, that actually does sound kind of ridiculous.

How checkers was solved [theatlantic].

An interesting round-up of coverage of the idea that for Apple making the iPhone, massive scale is actually kind of a massive problem [kottke].

Google’s iOS app now has a personalized feed with news and info relevant to your interests [macstories]. On a long enough timeline, every app or service becomes a feed.

A look at Amazon Spark, an Instagram-like social network for product discovery [arstechnica].

A great piece on recovering from burnout and feeling “me-shaped” again [beero]. Thanks to James on Twitter [twitter] for suggesting that one!

The dev’s guide to salary negotiation [sitepoint].

Forcing It

Everything else

Important public service announcement: do not force quit your iOS apps, it doesn’t do anything aside from waste battery/make your phone slower [daringfireball]. Another announcement: try not to care too much about stuff like this. Just live your life, you know?

A Super Mario 64 hack that’ll allow you to make and share your own levels [motherboard.vice].

Watch this gamer beat Dark Souls 3 using a fishing pole gaming accessory [motherboard.vice].

Mira Prism [mirareality] uses your smartphone and a mirror to bring augmented reality to your life now.

The Nintendo Switch Online iOS app is available [macstories]. One day, when I’m not playing Zelda, I’ll give it a go. See you on there!

Finally, today in “please, please, no! I’m begging you!!” news: this creepy soft robot “vine” will probably be the last thing you ever see [motherboard.vice].

That's Versioning for ya, for Thursday. I'm gonna force quit my daily internet usage and settle down to some serious checkers. Of course, I'm not American, so I spell it using the British form: "chequers". Back tomorrow. Assuming, as always, a robot worm doesn't murder me before then.

Send this through to your Switch-owning friends. Also, the vast majority who aren't Switch-owners.