Web Design: Gridlocked

Friday, August 11, 2017

Gridlocked

Front-end

First up, a guide to using Sass mixins to overcome browser compatibility issues with CSS Grid [css-tricks].

Speaking of Grid, The New CSS Layout [abookapart] is a new, fancy-looking book by Gridstress Rachel Andrew.

hazel [github/zeit] is a lightweight update server for Electron apps.

A transcript of a talk by Brad Barrow (excellent person, btw, s/o to Brad), covering primitive problems in engineering and design [medium/@foxwisp].

Snake Charmer

Back-end/programming

Pygorithm [github/omkarpathak] is a module for learning algorithms in Python.

The story of Flash [thehistoryoftheweb].

An amazing feat of engineering allowed an Airbnb engineer to crack their Reddit password [haseebq].

Mock Tales

Design/UX/product

Smarmockups [app.smartmockups] is an interesting tool for creating, you guessed it, mockups.

18 things you should know when starting out in UX design [medium.springboard].

Oppo Research

News/business

A big profile of Patreon, an economic engine for culture [theverge]

Kite X [kitex.tech] uses drones and kites to produce power and I’m totally fine with that.

Meet the loyal engineers steering NASA’s Voyager probes through the universe [nytimes].

Turns out your brain actually works in up to 11 dimensions [sciencealert]. Sure, maybe your brain. Mine is a little more relaxed, dimension-wise.

“New shapes solve infinite pool table problem” [quantamagazine]. That’s my kind of headline. Though infinite pool tables seem like a solution, not a problem.

Click here to find out your opposite job [nytimes].

A collection of tactics for marketing your side projects [github/karlihughes].

And a directory of products to help with people processes [hrstash].

Just what we need, more content to keep up with [businessinsider].

Sing When You’re Winning

Everything else

Soooo, Jim Carrey is quite a good painter? [vimeo]. This is unexpected. Actually, did he paint the mask he wore in The Mask? Always thought that had panache.

How to automate your paperwork [thesweetsetup].

And how to build a better memory [menshealth]. Quite a good guide, I think? Can’t recall the details.

Leonardo da Vinci’s manuscripts have been digitized, and are available here [bl].

The Carpool Karaoke Apple TV show is out [macstories].

There's Versioning for the week! I'll have a lot more for you next week, illustrated as always using a Jackson Pollock-style approach, with paint splattered all over my screen. Y'all don't see it, but it does help me to feel like I've used my muse. Back on Monday, don't forget me until then!