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No Images? Click here Make No Mistake Front-end First up, nine mistakes you’ll make when learning JavaScript [sitepoint]. You should learn vanilla JavaScript [medium.freecodecamp]. TypeScript 2.5 is out [blogs.msdn]. A guide to impactful web improvements [medium/@fox].   Start Your Engines Back-end/programming “JavaScript engines: how do they even?” [youtube/jsconf]. async_hooks in node.js, illustrated [medium/the-node-js-collection]. How to architect Electron apps for 60fps [nearform]. Three ways to write modular code [techbeacon]. Yep, that web project you’re thinking about should be a Progressive Web App [alistapart]. A Docker cheat sheet [github/eon01].   Aug Chart Design/UX/product Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for augmented reality [developer.apple]. The minimum viable design portfolio [blog.intercom]. The case against design thinking [99u]. Swears in there, starting with the title.   If You’re Bored Then You’re Boring News/business Some tough news up top: Celebrities’ phone numbers and email addresses are being exposed in an active Instagram hack [arstechnica]. If you’d like to learn the Bitcoin basics, and you search accordingly, you’re gonna get phished [motherboard.vice]. Welcome to the world of cryptocurrency! And if you used popular new app Sarahah for some candid, honest messages, here’s one for you: the app has quietly harvested your address book [theintercept]. A profile of Apple CEO Tim Cook, who’s doing a pretty good impression of a politician right now [nytimes]. An LA suburb is letting Elon Musk tunnel under it [fastcompany]. His company, I mean, not just him. Forget Giphy, the best place to host your favorite GIFs, plus any other kind of file, really, is the Federal Communications Commission’s website [motherboard.vice]. FullContact [fullcontact] is a little tool that’ll tell you everything you need to know about your Gmail contacts. Keyword Tool [keywordtool] is a nice little alternative to Google Keyword Planner.   Drops of Jupiter Everything else Vulture has a list of the 100 best dystopian books [vulture]. I’ve read 17, which means I’ve had a fairly happy life up until now. Lots to do! The Wirecutter has done a nice round-up of what you should look for in a VPN [thewirecutter]. A few recommendations in there, but the general vibe is valuable in itself. In 13 million years, we’re gonna have two stars in the solar system [motherboard.vice]. Well, “we”. New concept (for me): premium mediocore [ribbonfarm]. Finally, LOOK AT THESE PHOTOS OF JUPITER [kottke].       There you have it - Versioning for another Friday and another week! I'm thinking I'll spend the weekend on a dystopian novel, balancing out the ensuing bleakness with a look at Jupiter and a quick peek at some GIFs on the FCC's website. Should be an emotional rollercoaster, my favorite kind of weekend. See ya Monday! Curated by Adam. Wait, why am I here, what is this?   You're receiving this email because you've signed up for Versioning, SitePoint's daily email for web developers. Manage your preferences to stop receiving Versioning, or unsubscribe from all SitePoint emails below.   Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe