Web Design: You Only Live Once

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Fit as a Fiddle

Front-end

First up, a guide to combining Flexbox and CSS grids for efficient layouts [getflywheel].

How to use custom properties to modify components [css-tricks].

fitty [github/rikschennink] is a little JS library that’ll make sure text fits perfectly.

A guide to converting your typographic units with Sass [sitepoint].

A word of caution when working with sub-elements of clickable things [css-tricks].

You Only Live Once

Back-end/programming

The start of a series on implementing push notifications on your site [css-tricks].

How to choose between shared and cloud hosting [sitepoint].

YOLO [pjreddie] is a very fancy real-time object detection system. I mostly included it because of its name, but it is also quite impressive.

Picture This

Design/UX/product

11 ways to visualize product development work [hackernoon].

How to design with the Arab user in mind [medium.freecodecamp].

10 things UX writers hate to hear [medium/jsaito]. Most people also hate hearing these things, to be fair.

Seven very good artists and designers you should follow on Behance [sitepoint].

Hot Take

News/business

The Feds have busted one of AlphaBay’s largest drug rings [arstechnica].

A spyware backdoor has led to Google pulling 500 apps with more than 100 million downloads [arstechnica]. This is fine.

Meanwhile, AccuWeather has been caught sending user location data even when location sharing is off [zdnet].

The future of content is internet-connected hot plates synchronized to cooking videos [theverge]. I’ve long thought the media might be cooked, nice to be proven right.

Actually, the future of content is Medium’s slowly-expanding partner program, with publishers competing for claps and, hence, dollars [blog.medium]. I like the hot plates version better.

Meetingbird [meetingbird] brings your Gmail and Google Calendar closer together. In a good way, I hope.

Zapier now supports Alfred [macstories].

Monster Mash

Everything else

Crashplan discontinued its consumer services [mjtsai].

A review of the SNES Classic from someone who never owned the original [arstechnica]. AKA a young person.

VR versions of Doom, Fallout 4 and Skyrim are coming this year! [arstechnica].

Also coming this year: an iOS version of Final Fantasy XV! [macstories]

A review of a wee device that’ll turn your iPad into a display for your MacBook [furbo].

Finally, the trailer for the upcoming Netflix Godzilla anime looks good! [youtube/TOHO animation]. More like Goodzila, amiright? I apologize.

There's your mid-week Versioning for ya. I'll have some more tomorrow, delivered as always to an internet-enabled toaster near you. My theory is the text and a short link will be toasted into the bread, and you can visit those on your phone while you munch on the toast. That feels like the future to me, for sure. See you on the breakfast table!