| No Images? Click here  Mind the GapFront-endFirst up, 11 productivity tools that’ll help devs beat their deadlines [sitepoint]. A guide to working with data in React [sitepoint]. How CSS and screen readers can interact and make things a bit complicated [webaim]. An essay on the gap between design and code, which is narrowing [css-tricks]. You should use just enough functional programming [medium/@bfil]. So you want to be a senior dev, eh? CSS Tricks has some words of wisdom [css-tricks]. 💼 JOB: front-end software engineer [esurance] Rocklin, California, USA. 💼 Off with their HeadsBack-end/programmingHow to put the “app” in Progressive Web Apps [sitepoint]. TensorFlow tutorials and examples for beginners [github/aymericdamien]. Fastify [thenewstack] is a fast Node.js framework. You can tell by the name. Compilers are the new frameworks [tomdale]. An intro to headless mode in Firefox [developer.mozilla]. How to work with schemas in WordPress [css-tricks]. 💼 JOB: tech guru [Smiling Mind] Melbourne, Australia. 💼 #InspoDesign/UX/productInspiration time: The best interaction design examples for September [blog.productdisrupt]. 20 questions, 20 designers, 20 weeks - an interview series begins [uxplanet]. 💼 JOB: Senior UX Designer [Zappos] Las Vegas, Nevada. 💼 Social InsecurityNews/businessA firm hired to monitor data breaches has one of its own to monitor/fix: it was hacked and 143 social security numbers were stolen [motherboard.vice]. A trial involving GrubHub that’ll hinge on the question of “employees or contractors” began this week - a summary of where it’s at [techcrunch]. Google Drive went down, ruining everyone’s productivity [techcrunch]. Wired goes deep on how Apple made Siri more human [wired]. A deep dive into Apple’s rumored face unlocking tech, and what it may mean for the future of augmented reality selfies[medium/@flyosity]. Aaaaand to the surprise of no-one - Disney is pulling Star Wars and Marvel films from Netflix [arstechnica]. Should Spotify try become the Netflix of music? No [billboard]. Get a load of this high-tech vertical farm! [bloomberg] Botletter [botletter] lets you send newsletters using Facebook Messenger, for some reason. (Sidenote: is this a thing people want?) YouTube kinda perfected the feed [theverge]. Resources for people who think about people AKA everyone [tettra]. Tinder SurpriseEverything elseIn the upcoming South Park game, as you make your character’s skin darker, the game gets more difficult [arstechnica]. If you live in Toronto or New Zealand, and you use Facebook Messenger, your app now has a built-in version of Tinder[motherboard.vice]. Speaking of things that use Tinder mechanics, Swipe [itunes.apple] is Tinder, but for news. Come for the news, stay for the filter bubble! One man’s journey to add a working headphone jack to an iPhone 7 Plus [motherboard.vice]. Glow [kickstarter] is a smart energy tracker for the home. Isaac Newton’s Principia has been republished and it looks quite good indeed [kroneckerwallis]. DeepL Translator [deepl] is a deep-learning-powered language translator. Finally, You Think You Know Me [waxy] looks like a fun game to play with friends and family, and may also help you identify spies in your midst, which has to be an advantage. There is Versioning for another week! I hope this week was full of whimsy and delight, or at least you didn't wish you could swipe left on it (left is the direction you swipe when you don't like something on Tinder, right?). A reminder here, if one is needed: we now have job listings - so if you'd like to get someone into a position at your workplace, you can do that with us! It's a one-time cost of $150, it's very easy to do, go here to do that thing. I'll have some more for you next week, and will spend the weekend adding a second headphone jack to my iPhone 6. No particular reason, I just figure if that guy could get heaps of press for giving his phone one headphone jack, I'll be truly famous if I can give mine two! Back on Monday!  Curated by Adam. |
Friday, September 8, 2017
Off with their Heads
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