Baby One More Time

No Images? Click here Going Downhill Front-end First up, Facebook's retrospective on the React 16 rewrite [code.facebook]. How to help your Chrome for Android users save data with Save-Data [css-tricks]. A nifty font-variant browser support tester [does-font-variant]. eBay engineers talk about their font loading strategy [ebaytechblog]. On the decline of the traditional front-end developer, and defining the two major types we see today [medium]. A Hidden Defender Back-end/programming Replacing Electron with JavaFX [athaydes] for fast, responsive multi-platform desktop apps. When should you really consider your code 'legacy'? [medium] What's next in the Ethereum development roadmap [bitfalls]. An infosec specialist on defending against attacks on Tor hidden services [hackerfactor]. 10 SQL optimizations [jooq] that don't involve cost-based optimization. All in a Day's Work Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs) Senior PHP and JavaScript developer [GoDaddy], remote. Salesforce developer [X-Team], remote. Frontend Developer [Toptal], 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]. A Rotten Apple Design/UX/product Improve your payments UX with Stripe Elements [stripe]. The big design news of the day: Dropbox has launched a massive redesign of all aspects of its brand [dropbox]. Joshua Topolsky thinks Apple has become really bad at design [theoutline] (some swears within). How times change. A case study in improving sales with landing page design [uxplanet]. Saturday Night Live making fun of Avatar's use of Papyrus [subtraction]. Ribbing on Comic Sans is so clichéd. Back to Reality News/business Microsoft had a big day of announcements in VR and mixed reality, including a partnership with Samsung on a mixed reality headset and its acquisition of AltspaceVR [techcrunch]. It turns out all 3 billion Yahoo accounts were breached [nytimes] in the 2013 hack — not 1 billion. The White House wants to replace social security numbers with new tech [bloomberg]. Uber is moving ahead with some, but not all, proposed governance changes [axios], and will proceed with SoftBank talks. Tyler Tringas on selling his bootstrapped SaaS business [indiehackers]. How the software engineering jobs market is changing [techcrunch]. Baby One More Time Everything else Incredible Doom [incredibledoom] is a comic series about '90s kids making life-threatening decisions over the early internet. Spotify's Time Capsule playlists try to guess the music you listened to in your teenage years [kottke]. Mine had some accurate hits but I can't figure out why so much Britney is in there. The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life [theguardian]. Now you can throw your alarm clock across the room sans feelings of guilt. It's killing you. But if you want to nurture your relationship with it, here's one way to become a morning person [medium]. It's hard for parents to figure out how much technology their kids should be using. The Verge tries to put things in perspective [theverge]. That's Versioning for Wednesday! I'm off to set up a fool-proof morning alarm system and worry a lot about my impending demise. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow, when I'll be back with more links and clear signs of sleep deprivation. Curated by Adam Joel. 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    Share    Forward  Preferences   |   Unsubscribe