Turtles All the Way Down

No Images? Click here Shifting Gears Front-end First up, all the fundamental React concepts jammed into a single article [medium.freecodecamp]. React VT [github/reactvt] is a data-driven visual testing library for React. downshift [medium/@kentcdodds] is a primitive for building React apps. An unofficial WeChat client built with React, Electron and MobX [github/trazyn]. A guide to managing CSS and JavaScript in the world of HTTP/2 [viget]. Martin sent through Vivify, his CSS animation library [github/martz90]. Thanks Martin! A guide to visualizing large date- and time-based datasets using AnyStock [sitepoint]. Looks like Chrome may get the ability to mute/unmute a site directly from the little page info bubble [plus.google].   Madam I’m Adam Back-end/programming How to create a neural network in just 30 lines of JavaScript [medium.freecodecamp]. How to write better SQL [kdnuggets]. How to use SQL to find palindromes [blog.jooq]. (Like the one in the title of this section, by the way.) React and PHP - together at last [sitepoint].   Turtles All the Way Down Design/UX/product Nothing is original [medium/@fvo]. Seven really good email unsubscribe pages and preference centers [explore.reallygoodemails]. A design challenge: a turtle done 10 ways [envato].   The Internet of Incredibly Insecure Things News/business More than 1700 passwords to various Internet of Things devices have been leaked [arstechnica], meaning it’s a bad time to have an internet-enabled toaster. Also, and this is just personal opinion, but it will always be a bad time to own an internet-enabled toaster. Today in hiring: Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been tapped as the new CEO of Uber [cnet]. And Facebook hired former New York Times public editor Liz Spayd as a transparent consultant [recode]. Sorry: “transparency consultant”, she will remain physically opaque. This story captivated me for a solid 15 minutes while I ate toast and drank coffee Saturday morning:  “Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How” [gizmodo]. You know how Facebook does the “People You May Know” feature? It’s about that, and how creepily omniscient it can be. There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over software licensing, React, and Facebook, recently: here’s a summary [writing.jan]. Companies are using AI to scan your face and decide whether to hire you [theladders]. Feels like there's some real potential for awful, awful stories to come out from this technology.   Life Story Everything else The Half Life 3 plot has maybe been leaked [arstechnica]. Or at least - “something has been leaked”. The new trailer for Black Mirror season 4 is out [youtube/netflix] and it looks suitably weird and bleak. Finally, and speaking of futuristic, weird and bleak entertainment from Netflix: What Happened to Monday?[arstechnica], a new film from the ‘flix, looks like a fun dystopian journey. Dystopia is such fun, isn’t it?!       What happened to Monday, indeed? For Versioning, another Monday occurred, received an email, and was good. I'll be back tomorrow, with Versioning for Tuesday. Another Tuesday. Hopefully not too dystopian, but you never know these days. See you in your inbox! (And if you do own an internet-enabled toaster, I'm sorry and it's sad to see you go!) 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