Web Design: U2

Friday, August 4, 2017

Twist and FOUT

Front-end

How to use font-display: optional may be the key to avoiding FOUT [css-tricks]. That’s Flash of Unstyled Text, by the way. Totally didn’t need to look that up, no way.

Languages which almost became CSS [blog.cloudflare].

Crackerjack

Back-end/programming

What to do about the malicious npm packages that popped up recently [iamakulov].

You can download 306,000,000 cracked passwords and check if any of yours are among them [boingboing].

U2

Design/UX/product

A cool guide to creating amazing illustrations with Sketch and Looper [toptal].

All the new stuff from Sketch 46, including private cloud sharing, syncing shortcuts [blog.sketchapp].

Freehand [invisionapp] is a cool new collaboration tool for wireframing, planning, presenting and providing feedback.

What’s the difference between UI and UX? [sitepoint].

UXer ux_adam is doing a 24-hour design livestream on Twitch to celebrate his birthday this weekend [twitch]. It’s also my birthday this weekend, I’ll let you know the stream URL! Not really!

U-nay-corn

News/business

Today in things that aren’t…

Unicorns aren’t real. The tech ones, too [bloomberg].

Also, your anonymous browsing data isn’t anonymous [motherboard.vice].

These atoms aren’t real, but are assembling themselves into complex structures [motherboard.vice].

And this programmable biocomputing device isn’t RNA, though it is kinda close [kurzweilai].

Anyway, some affirmative news now: Gimlet got paid! They raised US $15M in a Series B financing round [variety]. It’s not all good news for them though - they’re getting one of their pods adapted by Zach Braff.

A guide to fighting through intellectual discomfort [99u]. Not that that’s something I’ve ever had to deal with, obviously.

Stagger Down Memory Lane

Everything else

A guide to being passive-aggressive while collaborating in Google Docs [thecooperreview]. I thought this would just be, “use Google Docs,” but there’s actually a little more to it.

Firefox came out with Send, offering private, encrypted file sharing [send.firefox].

This a choose-your-own-adventure for living in poverty [pickapath.actionstation]. That’s from New Zealand - shout out to New Zealand, really bringing it with the bleak art.

16K gaming is officially a thing, though an unrealistic, expensive thing to achieve [arstechnica].

Finally, just in time for the weekend: booze helps you remember stuff! [arstechnica] In my experience, it helps you, the next day, to remember why you should probably take it easy next time.

There's Versioning for ya! If there's anything in there you think you may forget, just do a shot. That's what I always do while writing it, anyway. In Google Docs, passive aggressively or just aggressively, depending on how far through the process I am. Anyway, I'll be back with more sozzled prose for you on Monday. Until then!