Web Design: By Request

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

By Request

On the Mark

Front-end

First up, a demo of CSS-only, directionally aware hover states [codepen]. Nice!

And Marko [github/marko-js] is a fast UI library from eBay, which is allegedly also quite fun.

By Request

Back-end/programming

Are Bitwise operators still relevant in modern PHP? [sitepoint]

10 languages that compile to JavaScript [sitepoint].

PullRequest [pullrequest] offers code review as a service, which is interesting.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Design/UX/product

Do brands look better stripped back? [insights.askattest] Yes.

Scout [dribbble] is a service for finding the best designers for your next project.

A UX critique of Medium’s new clapping feature [medium/@lucasnantonio]. Yes, that is a Medium post about a Medium feature, what did you expect?

Charge!

News/business

Ellen Pao writes about how sexism works in Silicon Valley [thecut]. Tough, necessary reading, and an excerpt from her book Reset.

Google pays Apple US $3 billion per year to remain the default search engine on iOS [cnbc] and honestly, that seems like a bargain.

Alibaba is looking like it’ll be bigger than Amazon soon [money].

Looks like there’s been a bit of breakthrough in battery tech [wired] which, as someone who owns something with a battery, feels very necessary.

Those crazy scienticians have created a holodeck for animals [motherboard.vice] - everyone be cool and keep this from my cat, she’ll be annoyed I only got her a fidget spinner.

The developer’s guide to managing email accounts [sitepoint].

Wekan [wekan.github] is an open source Trello-like Kanban alternative.

Dead Domains [dead.domains] is a place to share those domain names you’re never gonna use.

Cookie Cutter

Everything else

A review of the Essential Phone, from Android creator Andy Rubin [theverge]. It looks like quite a good phone.

If you were among those who saw the solar eclipse on Monday, congratulations. [You know what’s more impressive, though? Being among those who saw the solar eclipse in virtual reality [arstechnica].

The HTC Vive is now 25% cheaper [arstechnica]. Not sure if that makes it 25% more likely I'll buy it, but it's gotta help!

Android 8.0 “Oreo” [android] has been released.

An overview of Firefox Focus, a lightweight browser from Mozilla [blog.mozilla].

Finally, this is a very important video about a subject we all deal with from time to time [youtube/Raizzor18]. Actually, I can’t go through with it - that link will take you to a video containing a popular song by Rick Astley, in this case covered by the popular band the Foo Fighters and featuring Mr Astley himself, that many internet users use to perform elaborate jokes on each other. I didn’t want to lose your trust, I hope we’re still cool.

There's Versioning for Tuesday, once again I didn't give you up or let you down, with the links (all except that last one, maybe). I'll be rolling on through to tomorrow, where I'll have some more for you. Until then!