Web Design: Sweet 16

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Sweet 16

Front-end

First up, React 16 has been officially released [github].

A mega HTML5 cheat sheet [medium/level-up-web].

styled-system [github/jxnblk] offers design system utilities for styled-components, and other CSS-in-JavaScript libraries.

Diffee [diffee] uses CSS blend modes to visually diff two different sites.

How components can end framework churn [blog.ionic].

12 useful, cool things you can do with GitHub.com [hackernoon].

Quantum Leap

Back-end/programming

Firefox Quantum is in beta [blog.mozilla]. It’s fast! It looks cool! It has Pocket built-in! I’ll probably still use Chrome because I hate change!

HNPWA [hnpwa] is a collection of Hacker News readers as Progressive Web Apps, which is a bit of a thing now. Addy Osmani explains the hows and whys and wherefores [blog.hnpwa].

Firebase in React Native [github/invertase].

The numbers behind a platform that serves one trillion HTTP requests every month [highscalability].

Why you should never use Nginx for load balancing [thehftguy].

A Real Piece of Work

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

Front-end software engineer [Discogs], Portland, OR, United States.
Senior Rails developer [Machinio], remote.
iOS + Android developer [Mokriya], 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! Go here and place your ad [sitepoint].

Nest Egg

Design/UX/product

How Trivago handles accessibility [tech.trivago].

Introducing Sketch’s nested symbols [symbols.janlosert].

Logo Crunch [brandmark] is a tool that’ll use computer vision (for some reason) to make high-res logos legible at lower resolutions.

Tinder Surprise

News/business

Dyson - you know the hand-dryer and vacuum company? - is making electric cars now [bbc]. I’m not sure about this - that company’s products usually suck…. I’ll get my coat.

In-flight WiFi sucks - Netflix is trying to sort that out [gizmodo].

A reporter delves into the 800 pages of data Tinder has on her - it’s not fun reading! [theguardian].

A report on Phish for the Future, a spearfishing campaign against Free Press and Fight for the Future [eff].

Three things you to know to raise money in Silicon Valley [andrewchen].

Smash Mouth

Everything else

Readwise [readwise] is a service that sends you a daily email with your Kindle highlights.

For players in the Super Smash Bros. Melee scene(?), their favorite controller’s time is running out [kotaku]. Roy - Roy is the character I used to go for in that game. Although there’s also "FALCON PUNCH".

This article on the value of group chat in the modern world - and especially for people of color or marginalized groups - is very much worth your time [theoutline].

Echo [eurogamer], a video game which imbues your enemies with skills you display, sounds really, really good. If I explained that badly, please click the link to read more.

Finally Centrism Dot Biz [centrism] offers quite good satire of… liberalism? Globalization? Everything? Life?

There's Versioning for ya for Thursday. I'll be back with more once I've landed some Falcon Punches on some fools...

Actually:

As mentioned earlier this week, imma go get married quite soon, so won't be providing your linkage til mid-October. I probably won't be using the internet much in general really, aside from posting smug selfies and such.

While I'm away, my good pal and associate Joel will be here to bring the links and the punnage you expect. I look forward to taking back the reins as a married man soon. Be well, and see you in your inbox next month.