Web Design: Netflux

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Packing Heat

Front-end

First thing: how to develop an app with Angular 2+ and the Angular CLI [sitepoint].

A guide to the difference between Sass and SCSS [sitepoint].

How to use Critical CSS and Webpack to automatically minimize render-blocking CSS [vuejsdevelopers].

Reality Bites

Back-end/programming

We have an 🚨 actual good deal alert for you today! 🚨 a guide to securing your site with HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt [httpswithletsencrypt]. For 24 hours you, as a nice Versioning and SitePoint alumnus, will get it for 40% off! That’s a lot of percent! But not many hours! Get into it!

Firefox 55 has become the first desktop browser to support WebVR [hacks.mozilla].

Why one dev is dumping Firebase [lugassy].

User Unfriendly

Design/UX/product

A look at how AI can improve UX [sitepoint].

InVision has a fancy new design-focused publication, offering three books and a podcast [designbetter].

Gajus sent this through, thanks mate! A piece on removing friction from the conversion flow, and the impact on the conversion rate [medium/@gajus].

“As a user” sucks, here’s how to do better [blog.prototypr].

Netflux

News/business

Today in streaming news (news about streaming, that is):

Netflix has made its first ever acquisition! A comic books legend, indicating the company is coming for Marvel [qz].

Meanwhile, Disney is outta here! The company will pull its movies from Netflix and start its own streaming service [cnbc].

Easy come, easy go: Netflix is also partnering with someone named David Letterman to produce an interview series [variety].

Mazda claims to have made a very big breakthrough in engine tech [arstechnica].

Looks like Applers (is that we call them? Apple employees) are not stoked about the open-plan office they’ve got inside the new space ship headquarters [bizjournals]. Weird that people who work at Apple have opinions about things like aesthetics, design and being disturbed.

Anchor, What?

Everything else

Anchor [anchor] turns your voice into video (well-designed subtitles).

mirage [mirage.world] could be the first big augmented reality app. It looks fairly flash, anyway.

gfeed [gfeed] turns your unweildy Gmail inbox into a feed.

Finally, this magnetic floating cloud seems like a fairly desirable object [richardclarkson].

There's Versioning for Wednesday, and I hope it provided a ray of light amidst cloudy, albeit magnetic skies. I'll have some more tomorrow, right after my boss sorts me out with the private turret office I've been asking for. Sitting within 100 metres of other people, I can't work under these conditions! Just barbaric, I don't know how those brave souls at Apple handle it. See you tomorrow!