Web Design: Infinite Jest

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Infinite Jest

Front-end

First up, a step-by-step guide to building a universal React blog app [sitepoint].

And once you’ve done that one, a guide to building a CRUD app with React, Redux and FeathersJS [sitepoint].

Then once you’ve got some React components underway, here’s how to test them using Jest [sitepoint].

A React and Preact Progressive Web App case-study [medium/dev-channel].

How to take your CSS linting to the next level with Stylelint [sitepoint].

How to use ES2015+ code in production today [philipwalton].

And nine things you didn’t know about Firefox dev tools [webdesign.tutsplus].

What’s Up, Docs?

Back-end/programming

We’ve got an official 🚨 actual good deal alert 🚨 here: Learn to build a web app in 10 hours, using Flask and Docker, with the very awesome Nick Janetakis [buildasaasappwithflask]. Legends using that link get 60% off for the next 24 hours.

10 essential things in good API documentation [alistapart].

Redux v MobxX - a state-management solution head-to-head [sitepoint].

NotchKit [github/harshilshah] offers an easy way to hide the notch on the iPhone X.

Chrome’s forcing .dev domains to be HTTPS [ma.ttias], which is a bit of a problem.

Workin’ It

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

React Native developer [X-Team], remote.

UX/UI designer [Clevertech], remote.

Siri software engineer, Health and Wellness [apple] [APPLE], Santa Clara Valley, California, United States.

Want your next open position here? You should! 45,000 very qualified readers will see it and a slightly smaller number of those will apply! Posting an ad costs US $150 and takes, like, three minutes. Go here and place your ad [sitepoint].

First Principles

Design/UX/product

Three overlooked ways to optimize website usability [sitepoint].

What we can learn from Facebook’s 2006 newsfeed redesign [medium.freecodecamp].

How Vimeo uses Principle to prototype product designs [medium/vimeo-design-blog].

Fitter, Happier, More Productive

News/business

How to handle executive swoop-ins and push back on bad ideas from management [medium/the-year-of-the-looking-glass].

Apple’s looking for engineers that understand psychology so they can improve Siri’s counselling skills [qz]. If you’re keen, the ad’s above!

The first jobs of billionaires [aaronwallis].

Uber appears to have found evidence of ad click fraud after its ads appeared on Breitbart, so it’s suing an advertising firm [arstechnica]. When Uber’s suing you, you know you’re in the wrong.

Slack got some funding, is valued at US $5.1 billion [cnet]. That’s a lot of plaid!

The brain-machine interface is no longer sci-fi [wired].

How women can interrupt interrupt culture [beero].

How to make your brain more productive [blog.producthunt].

Eight ways to make meetings more productive/not a waste of time [entrepreneur].

And a guide to working from home [nytimes].

Color Me Delighted

Everything else

The Pirate Bay did a thing recently where, instead of showing dodgy ads, the site hijacked visitors’ computers and used them to mine cryptocurrency. Someone made an add-on that’ll block such behavior, you should probably get it before it becomes more prevalent [motherboard.vice].

The complete, exhaustive (25 pages) MacStories iOS 11 review [macstories].

And a review - there are many out there if you choose to find them - of the iPhone 8 [techcrunch].

Rocket [matthewpalmer] is a tool to make emoji usage on macOS 👍.

Ghostit [ghostit] is a service that does your social posts for you, via a ghost-writer. Sometimes it feels like companies are using Black Mirror as a product roadmap.

What to do about identity theft [kalzemeus].

Finally, I’m not crying, you’re crying: a colorblind man sees color for the first time, is understandably rather thrilled [kottke]. That actually might be the best video.

Hello! Apologies for the lack of Versioning yesterday - blame my immune system and my inability to ignore said-immune system. I'm back now though, and I hope between the click fraud, the cryptocurrency mining ad-tech, and the 25-page-long iOS review, you found something that made you smile. If not - watch that video with the guy seeing color for the first time again! It's great! I'll be back tomorrow with some good stuff, and will probably include that video again cos I liked it so much. See ya then!