| Vanilla Ice Front-end First up, how to use SVG to create a bold vector halftone graphic super fast [sitepoint]. Now more than ever before, you may not need jQuery. A look at vanilla JS alternatives to jQuery methods [css-tricks]. Papers, Please Back-end/programming A great intro to GraphQL [howtographql]. How to easily add a social login – Google and Facebook – to your single-page app via Passport.js [sitepoint]. Wow. How Discord scaled Elixir to five million concurrent users [blog.discordapp]. Pell [github/jaredreich] is a simple, tiny (1kB) WYSIWYG editor for the web. URLy Bird Gets the Worm Design/UX/product An interview with the lead designer of the game currently improving my commute, Monument Valley 2 [interfacelovers], covering his set-up, his inspiration, all that Jazz. URLs are UI, they matter [hanselman]. It's Alive! News/business Microsoft's released a new AI app for iOS that narrates the world around you, an amazing product for the visually impaired [microsoft]. Aw Snap! Investors are no longer keen on the start-up, with shares plunging below the initial IPO price [reuters]. Apparently its appeal was as ephemeral as its core product. Nest founder, and former Apple exec instrumental in creating the iPhone, Tony Frankenstein– sorry, Tony Fadell – says he wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, thinking, "what did we bring to the world?" [fastcodesign]. I get that, I used to do that a bit too before I found this great sleep training ap- oh, I see your point. Hyperloop is moving ahead, completing its first test in a vacuum and achieving 70 mph and 5.3 seconds of levitation [arstechnica]. PayPal now works as a payment option in the App Store, iTunes and Apple Music [paypal]. Google paid academics to write about Google [nymag]. I'm not an ethics expert – I wish I was, maybe Google would come at me with a nice check – but that strikes me as problematic. He's On Fire Everything else A buyer's guide to enjoying the 2017 solar eclipse [kottke]. An oral history of NBA Jam [si]. Radiohead did something weird again. The best band of all time [citation needed] hid a ZX Spectrum program on a casette tape in the collector's edition re-release of OK Computer [arstechnica]. Finally, this illustrated series of conversations with the little voice in your head that tells you you're terrible is GREAT [lucybellwood]. If you can relate to it, I implore you to share it everywhere. I don't often say stuff like that but that link warrants it. Actual final link now: a palate cleanser from the always excellent Emergency Kittens Twitter account twitter/emrgencykittens] (an essential follow). | 
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