Web Design: 'dux in a Row

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

'dux in a Row

Route 66

Front-end

First up, the complete guide to React Router [sitepoint].

How to write CSS with accessibility in mind [medium/@matuzo].

An intro to CSS font-display, the future of font rendering on the web [sitepoint].

How to use SVG clip-path to change a logo’s color on scroll [eduardoboucas].

‘dux in a Row

Back-end/programming

A guide to getting started with Redux [sitepoint].

Advice on - when publishing a package on npm - publishing only the stuff you’re OK with being public [blog.npmjs].

How to think about open source licences [alistapart].

All In a Day’s Work

Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs)

Infrastructure and operations engineer [Fog Creek], remote.
Senior full-stack developer [Sticker Mule], remote.

Want your next open position here? You should! 45,000 very qualified, discerning, cool readers will see it and a slightly smaller number of those will apply! Go here and place your ad [sitepoint].

Ethical Minefield

Design/UX/product

15(!) prototyping tools, compared and contrasted [sitepoint].

Colorized [jondotsoy.github] will provide you with color inspiration. Also, it’s just kinda soothing to cycle through the different colors.

An interactive document covering the role of ethics in design [ethicsfordesign].

Pastel [usepastel] is a tool for adding sticky notes to a website, useful for providing design feedback during development.

Unfinished [subtraction] is a sketch book - maybe a “doodle book” - that looks like a pretty good time.

Hit the Road, Jack

News/business

Twitter’s doubling the tweet character limit [blog.twitter]. Because that, not the rampant abuse or harassment, was the main problem with the service, obviously.

After Hurricane Maria, HAM radio enthusiasts are connecting the Caribbean [motherboard.vice].

China has blocked WhatsApp [theverge].

Breaking news about meetings: meetings suck, don’t do them [theguardian].

Essential startup advice from Y Combinator [blog.ycombinator].

12 common metric interpretation mistakes you should probably avoid [blog.acolyer].

Limbo [limbo] is a job service that lets candidates anonymously post their ideal job and have companies introduce themselves.

Pick Up the Tab

Everything else

The Jacquard is a US $350 “smart jean jacket” that sounds quite dumb [qz]. It’s like an Apple Watch, except it’s worse and you probably can’t wear it all the time. Oh, and you can only wash it 10 times, ever [sfist].

Coinflash [coinflash] is a service that rounds up the money you spend on stuff to the nearest dollar, and invests the difference in cryptocurrency.

Finally, Tabagotchi [tabagotchi] translates the number of tabs you have open as the health and happiness of a little cartoon creature. While doing Versioning research, this creature will not be healthy or happy.

There's a mid-week Versioning for ya. I'll be back with some more tomorrow, hastily typed onto the sleeve of my jean jacket. It's not a smart jacket, I've just taken to hiding a keyboard inside the sleeve so I can work on public transport. My typing speed has really improved! Almost worth the general shunning I've experienced as a result.

Back tomorrow!