Web Design: Bad Form

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Bad Form

Flo(w) Rida

Front-end

First up, how to tell if React is right for your next project [sitepoint].

A guide to working with React and Flow [medium/javascript-inside].

How to work with custom HTML elements and frameworks [custom-elements-everywhere]

An interesting piece detailing the various phases of how we can/should think about CSS [adactio].

By Special Request

Back-end/programming

r2 [github/mikeal] is an HTTP client that’s a spiritual successor to request.

A guide to switching to HTTPS on a shoestring budget [css-tricks].

And if you're interested, here's a step by step guide to securing your site using HTTPS with Let's Encrypt [httpswithletsencrypt]. That's an 🚨 actual good deal alert 🚨 from Nick Janetakis. For 24 hours you, as a Versioning legend, get it for 40% off! That’s a lot of percent! But not many hours! Get into it!

Why devs should consider WordPress.com hosting [sitepoint].

A guide to the rapid development of Zend Expressive modules [sitepoint].

Bad Form

Design/UX/product

Design is not ethical [fastcodesign],

A guide to the 48-hour rule for enterprise UX projects [uxpin].

And an intro to Lottie, a design tool from Airbnb that appears to be a bit of a big deal for UI design [fastcodesign].

Do people use their phones to complete forms? [priceonomics]. Not really, as it happens.

Breaking the Bank

News/business

There’s a startup - Verrit - that’s pretty much built to help Hillary Clinton supporters win online arguments. Hillary endorsed it and the site was hit by a DDoS attack [recode]. I feel like I could’ve added “for some reason” to any part of that sentence and it would’ve been valid.

As Houston begins the task of recovery, drones may be about to prove their worth in a big way [wired].

ICYMI: the New York Times looked into it, comparing the life of a janitor at Apple now to one at Kodak back in the day, and inequality is actually a bit of a problem at the moment [nytimes].

Facebook bid US $600 million for the rights to stream the Indian Premier League (that’s cricket FYI). They didn’t get them, but the attempt may mean they have ambitions for other sports leagues, like, oh, the NFL [recode].

Strewth. An Australian banking official says traditional bank accounts could be obsolete in a decade thanks to (what else?) the blockchain and cryptocurrency [afr]. I just opened my account and you know what? I think I’m ahead of the curve on this one.

This is how Apple decides whether to repair your phone [macrumors].

One of the major YouTube audio-ripping sites got shut down after labels sued it [theverge].

A look at the black market for Instagram verification [mashable] AKA the most aesthetically-pleasing black market ever.

Paris Hilton is the latest celebrity [citation needed] to back an Initial Coin Offering [businessinsider]. Just the other day I was wondering how cryptocurrency could get any weirder.

App subscriptions are becoming a bit of an issue - an outline of the case from the user side [hackernoon].

These are the email templates you should use when you want to ask for an intro [fastcompany].

Life Finds a Way

Everything else

A thorough review of Android 8.0 Oreo [arstechnica].

Any@lias [anyalias] is a service that’ll give you unlimited free disposable email addresses.

This is actually quite cool: a virtual world, modelled on Neuromancer’s metaverse, built on the blockchain [medium/@bnolan].

Freezetab [freezetab] is an alternative to bookmarks, that’ll let you save a collection of tabs (“all the tabs on the right of this current one” for example) for later. This actually may change my (and your, in a way) life.

27 interesting facts about Jurassic Park [buzzfeed].

Two people drank a bottle of coke from 1956 and it was… fine? (The actual drinking part happens at about 3:00) [vimeo]. Let’s wait for the autopsy results, is all I’m saying.

Maybe a bit late for this holiday, United States residents, but here’s a guide to logging off [motherboard.vice].

A pretty interesting theory about Bladerunner from Matt Webb [interconnected].

Finally, breaking news about a fictional character! NINTENDO HAVE SAID MARIO IS NO LONGER A PLUMBER! [cbr]. This feels like a Wario conspiracy to me.

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There's Versioning for ya for Tuesday. I'm still coming to terms with this Mario news, it's shaken me up a little to be honest. I'll try to freshen up with this can of coke I found behind the couch (hopefully not shaken up like I am). I think it's a few weeks old so I'll probably upload a video of me sipping on it. Always so satisfying creating viral content!

No Versioning tomorrow because reasons (positive ones, doing some wedding-planning-related stuff), but back on Thursday!