U.G.L.Y, You Ain't Got No Alibi

No Images? Click here   New Times New Roman Front-end Now then, how to build a React app that’ll work with Rails 5.1 [sitepoint]. src2png [github/mplewis] turns your source code into beautiful, syntax-highlighted images. New font tech is going to change everything! [smashingmagazine] 25 useful web tools and services [sitepoint].   Shiver Me Timbers Back-end/programming An explanation of async operations in React and Redux operations [sitepoint]. How to code a newspaper as a Progressive Web App [medium/@seejamescode]. An intro to on-demand test environments with Docker and AWS [mherman]. Glynn Bird presents a talk on serverless microsystems [youtube/gotoconferences]. The first YouTube comment is, “Uh, finally I know what serverless means,” so you know it’s good. Timber [timber] is a tool to improve your logging.   Work of Art Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs) Front-end engineer [Zapier], remote. Senior blockchain developer [Clevertech], remote. Head of product design [Toptal], remote. Want your next open position here? You should! 45,000 rather 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].   U.G.L.Y, You Ain’t Got No Alibi Design/UX/product Inside a Google design sprint workshop [medium/ikoniq-blog]. An interview with a product designer at Dropbox [interfacelovers]. Don’t be afraid of ugly stuff [medium/type-thursday].   Thought Police News/business FYI, a pretty bad Apache bug apparently leaks the contents of a server for all to see, you should probably patch immediately [arstechnica]. A great thread on developing resilience as an adult [ask.metafilter]. To add a slightly ironic warning, given the subject matter - there are some swears in there. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has left the World Wide Web Consortium after the latter voted to have DRM managed by browsers [gizmodo]. Looks like Google’s gonna buy HTC, for some reason [arstechnica]. Patreon, the crowdfunding platform, has raised some funding of its own - US $60 million! [techcrunch] AI research needs an ethical watchdog [wired]. Here’s an idea: what if - now, stay with me here - but what if we built up a big dataset of ethical issues and solutions, and trained several different neural networks on those, then got the best one and used that to judge the ethics of- oh, wait, I see what I’ve done here. Yeah, we need a watchdog. Meanwhile, check out this brain built from atomic switches that appears to be learning! [quantamagazine] That's actually kind of scary, now I re-read it.   The Watchmen Everything else When you turn off the Bluetooth and WiFi on iOS 11, you don’t actually turn off the Bluetooth and WiFi[motherboard.vice]. “It just… continues to work..?” Tyke [tyke] is a little macOS menubar app that you can use to quickly type out something for use elsewhere. Pi [picharging] appears to be an actual wireless - not inductive - charging method. Finally, these are the first web apps [zapier]. And by “first”, I mean, “1995”.         This edition of Versioning brought to you by: ​Easily manage and protect your Apple devices at work With Jamf Now, you can easily oversee your company Apple devices. Configure email and Wi-Fi networks, distribute apps, protect sensitive data, and even lock or wipe a device. Secure your first 3 devices for free. Add more for just $2 a month, per device. Create your free account today!       There's Versioning for Thursday. Until tomorrow, I'll be worrying about AI and somehow trying to become more resilient. Competing objectives, perhaps. See ya tomorrow! 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