Web Design: Search Me

Friday, September 15, 2017

Re-reddit

Front-end

Now that we’ve made sure everyone’s employed:

How to build a Reddit clone using React and Firebase [sitepoint].

Sublime Text 3.0 is out and it looks like a comprehensive improvement [sublimetext].

“Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?” [medium/@mandy.michael]. Now, as written, that sounds kinda harsh, but I think it’s really about whether front-end people can get by, and be valuable, only knowing HTML and CSS.

Search Me

Back-end/programming

How to build procedurally generated terrain with React, PHP, and WebSockets [sitepoint].

Beyond the basics of Symfony console [sitepoint].

Awesome cryptocurrency tools and algorithms [github/kennethreitz].

What every engineer should know about search [medium/startup-grind].

CrowdCI [99tests] adds automated crowd feedback in your CI pipeline.

Microsoft is building a new GUI for managing Windows servers [arstechnica].

Workin’ On It

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

Front-end developer and UI designer [Hotjar], remote job.

Senior data operations engineer [Mozilla], EST remote or Toronto.

Senior software engineer, security [InVision], remote.

Software engineer [Parse.ly], remote.

UX designer [iFit], remote.

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].

Top Notch

Design/UX/product

On the iPhone X’s notch, and why its inclusion was a genius branding move by Apple [theverge].

What does the iPhone’s AR engine mean for UX designers [trydesignlab].

Polaroid’s got a new visual identity, an interview about how that happened [itsnicethat].

Working with vector-based animations in Framer [blog.framer].

Ship Shape

News/business

This is an absolute PR nightmare, and maybe every other kind of nightmare: Facebook’s ad tools allowed advertisers to select anti-semites as their audience [propublica].

This year is a record for the number of computers hacked to mine cryptocurrency, with at least 1.65 million so far [motherboard.vice].

This legal start-up will pay you to sue Equifax [motherboard.vice].

Three female ex-Googlers are suing the company for discrimination [arstechnica].

In an excerpt from her book Crash Override, Zoe Quinn explains what it was like to be doxxed by GamerGate [time].

Hmm, that was all fairly bleak stuff. Hmm. OK - how about this one? How South Korea is reinventing itself as a tech utopia [wired].

What Ideo found when studying innovation at 100 companies [fastcodesign].

An excerpt from Product Management for Humans, by Brett Harned [alistapart].

Product Hunt, uh, launched a product: Ship [producthunt] is a toolkit for people wanting to launch products into the world.

Good News, Everyone!

Everything else

A new advance in the quest for driverless cars: a guy drove around wearing a seat cosume, confused everyone [gizmodo].

An audio-only episode of Futurama [arstechnica]. Trigger warning: contains Chris Hardwick.

Finally, two videos, because it’s Friday and everyone’s done reading for the week:

The trailer for Downsizing, a new film from Alexander Payne [youtube/paramountpictures] about a future where we all elect to shrink ourselves down to save the planet, and ourselves.

Space X’s rocket landing blooper reel is the best blooper reel [youtube/spacex].

There's Versioning for another week. From employment to rocketry bloopers - the whole gamut! I'll be back next week, and will spend the weekend laughing to myself at those schmucks at Space X. What a bunch of immensely successful fools!