Web Design: #700

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Black Mirror

Front-end

First up, inside Stylo, the very fast CSS engine inside Firefox [hacks.mozilla].

How to create a Sketch plugin using front-end technologies [smashingmagazine].

Mirror [github/mirrorjs] is a simple, powerful React framework.

The Beta Band

Back-end/programming

A look at the two paths for creating native apps with Vue.js [hackernoon].

A guide to building a hybrid-rendered PWA [medium/dev-channel].

Beta Family [betafamily] is a service for finding beta testers for your iOS or Android apps.

You can now run multiple versions of Chromium side-by-side [blog.chromium].

A WebOps postmortem [cavaliercoder]. Disaster stories are always interesting, this one is no exception.

The back-end end of implementing push notifications on your site [css-tricks].

my-mac-os [github/nikitavoloboev] is a collection of apps and Alfred workflows to make your Mac a bit better.

Feeding Frenzy

Design/UX/product

Incoming Feedback [hotjar] is a new tool from Hotjar that’ll make user feedback on your site much, much easier to collect.

Way more than you thought you needed to know about the Sketch app data format [medium/avocode-stories].

The Interface font family [rsms] is a very nice collection of fonts, built to be readable on screens. You use screens, right?

Suit Up

News/business

Google’s working on tools to help publishers make money [theverge].

An update on Apple’s self-driving car ambitions: they’ve been scaled back a bit [nytimes].

Meet the physicist who models ISIS and the alt-right [quantamagazine], for some reason.

This is the spacesuit you’ll wear while fleeing Earth, a dying planet, on the way to Mars or whatever [arstechnica].

Uber drivers have made more than US $50M in the first month of tipping [arstechnica].

If you have customers and you’d like them to buy something of yours quickly, you’re in luck: Amazon’s patent on one-click payments is about to expire [businessinsider].

The case against the word ‘utilize’ [theoutline].

Throwing Shade

Everything else

A clever, well-conceived page you can only view offline, which encourages you to be offline [chris.bolin].

How to back up your Apple Photos library to Amazon S3 using Hazel [thesweetsetup].

Better late than never: the best photos and videos from the 2017 solar eclipse [kottke].

Finally, a modder has given Nintendo’s Virtual Boy console (you know, the one that was an absolute nightmare of a device) multiplayer powers [motherboard.vice].

Today, as you may have guessed from the subject line, is the 700th edition of Versioning! (According to the very vague way in which I number these.) Seven hundred is a lot of anything, so thank you for signing up, clicking the links and (hopefully) enjoying the ride. Thanks to everyone who's supported us in this venture, your kind words, feedback and shout-outs mean a lot. I guess I'll start on the next 700 tomorrow!