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No Images? Click here Conflict Zone Front-end Turns out all you need to do to love JavaScript again is throw out all the parts of it you hate [hackernoon]. Functional programming to the rescue! A guide to building a GitHub search UI in an hour [medium.appbase]. JetBrains have open sourced a massive library of React components [blog.jetbrains], just because they’re good like that. How New Relic handle CSS versioning conflicts [blog.newrelic]. You had me at “versioning”.   In Style Back-end/programming An intro to service workers [blog.88mph]. Firefox has support for Stylo, aiming to bring a parallelized CSS style system to the browser [blog.nightly.mozilla]. Bookmark this page: it’ll tell you when new Chrome features are scheduled [chromestatus]. How to stress-test third-party resources [csswizardry].   The Fragile Design/UX/product Payment buttons are a bit of a mess [uxplanet]. Are designers too fragile? [uxdesign]. Don’t mistake UI pattern popularity for UI pattern quality [medium/ruxers]. How Google designers adapt Material Design to their needs [medium/google-design]. Turns out Picasso was a pretty good designer/illustrator [trydesignlab].   Gen Ex News/business The big news at the end of last week and the weekend was a Googler’s anti-diversity manifesto, which leaked online  [gizmodo]. A former senior Googler weighs in and is non-too-pleased [medium/&40yonatanzunger]. Meanwhile, turns out the researcher who stopped WannaCry malware also created their own malware [motherboard.vice] and they're in trouble for it. Funny how that works out, innit? Apple’s going to release an LTE-capable Apple Watch [bloomberg], meaning the three people who bought the old Apple Watch will need to upgrade so they can use it without having their iPhone on them at all times. And then probably keep their iPhone on them at all times just out of habit. Has the smartphone destroyed a generation? [theatlantic] Yeah, pretty much. Probably most generations, really. Trigger warning: the author names this particular affected generation “iGen”, which is objectively bad. Two Facebook articles now: This one on how everyone wants Mark Zuckerberg to run for president in 2020 [wired]. And a slightly more scathing piece: a review of a few recent books on the tech industry that’s more of a critique of Facebook as a whole [lrb]. Includes the obligatory references to fake news, the filter bubble, and the attention economy, but is quite good in general.   A Real Lightweight Everything else Light [republic] is the phone designed to be used as little as possible. I feel like more products should be positioned this way - "don’t use my thing"! cooler [cooler] makes sharing GIFs of awesome TV moments easy and social. Finally, “Jeff Bezos” offers some very sage advice in serious, real news service The Onion: “Value your customers, hire well, find a market that isn’t being served, and realize that someday I will utterly crush you.” [theonion] Inspiring stuff!           There's Versioning for Monday! I'll have some more for you tomorrow, tapped out as always on my watch. I don't have a smartwatch, I just find it reassuring to tap out the text in Morse code on my watch first, just kinda calms me. That's a thing everyone does, right? Anyway, until tomorrow!  Curated by Adam. Wait, why am I here, what is this?   You're receiving this email because you've signed up for Versioning, SitePoint's daily email for web developers. Manage your preferences to stop receiving Versioning, or unsubscribe from all SitePoint emails below.   Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe