Web Design: Render's Game

Friday, August 25, 2017

Render's Game

Sock it to Me

Front-end

First up, a run-down of what CSS utility libraries are, and which ones you might like [css-tricks].

How to visualize large date and time-based datasets with AnyStock [sitepoint].

A guide to fancy web animatins using GreenSock plugins [sitepoint].

Render’s Game

Back-end/programming

10 ways to keep your programming skills sharp between jobs [sitepoint].

Node.js has been forked again over code of conduct violations [thenewstack].

Rendertron [github/googlechrome] is a dockerized, headless Chrome rendering service that’ll help a Progressive Web App serve the correct content to bots that don’t render or execute Javascript.

Awesome Linux Software [github/lewisvo] is a repo full of - wait, I won’t tell you, I want it to be a surprise.

GitHub now has embedded code snippets [github/blog].

Hero Images

Design/UX/product

A beginner’s guide to drawing [medium/personal-growth].

Desktop Kit [facebook.design] is a Sketch template full of UI elements from macOS.

Drag-and-drop: re-thought [medium/@alexandereardon].

15 color schemes from Disney heroes and villains [sitepoint].

Diamonds Are Forever

News/business

Proving that he is not too old for this s… stuff, Danny Glover has become an advisor to Airbnb [axios]. When it comes to Lethal Weapon actors, I would really have picked Joe Pesci to start advising Uber.

Inside Waymos self-driving testing and simulation facilities [theatlantic].

Scienticians are now creating diamonds from plastic using high-powered lasers [motherboard.vice]. And really, I have to applaud the scienticians involved - they could easily have just not told anyone about this discovery and retired to the Caymans. They have more professional pride than me, that’s for sure.

Breaking news about the structure of the brain: yeah, it’s just memories [wired].

Oof, this is a shame: machines taught by photos become sexist [wired].

The future of AI, according to Siri’s creator [macstories].

Tamás emailed through a post on how to outsource app development [codingsans]. Thanks Tamás!

An explainer for what a board actually does [bothsidesofthetable].

Vanity Fare

Everything else

This bleak iOS 11 feature disables TouchID if you’re in trouble [arstechnica]. Like, the feature is good, its necessity is bleak.

Starcraft Remastered looks like quite a nice little game [arstechnica].

Dungeons and Dragons now has official digital tools [motherboard.vice]. In other news, Dungeons and Dragons did not have official digital tools until now.

Hackers get fashion tips from “VanitySec” [motherboard.vice].

Pointy Papers [pointypapers] is a collection of nice wallpapers to download and enjoy.

Finally, LOOK AT THIS 1937 PAINTING FEATURING SOME DUDE ON AN IPHONE [motherboard.vice]. Life imitating art, quite a lot later.

There is Versioning for the week! And what a week! I can't remember what happened, but it certainly seemed like a week at least. I'll be back with more on Monday, until then I'll be rolling my 20-sided die to decide every move I make. The usual, you know? See you Monday!