Web Design: [Citation Needed]

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

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Good Form

Front-end

First up, 5 tips for starting a front-end refactor [css-tricks].

The history and future of browser resets [css-tricks].

An imperative guide to forms in Vue.js [blog.logrocket].

A collection of videos of all the talks from the recent Generate conference in the United Kingdom [youtube/creativebloq]. One of them is titled, “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”, so you know they’re good.

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Back-end/programming

TIL Google has a data element for adding fact checks to a page’s search results [developers.google]. So you can make sure people know that the idea that Vim is better than Emacs is a verified fact. (I don’t actually think that, I’m just being controversial. Don’t @ me.)

A collection of awesome hacking resources [github/vitalysim].

An example of bitmap and tilemap generators using ideas from quantum mechanics [github/mxgmn], for some reason.

An intro to wpDataTables, a great plugin for handling tables and charts in WordPress [sitepoint].

Automattic for the People

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

Backend engineer (scaling, performance [Automattic/WordPress.com], remote.
Software engineer [The Sensible Code Company], remote.

Want your next open position here? You should! 47,000+ very qualified readers will see it and a slightly smaller number of those will apply! Go here and place your ad [sitepoint].

Talk Me Through It

Design/UX/product

A look at how to combine voice and graphical interfaces, for better user experiences [smashingmagazine].

Hey, UX Matters are running a GoFundMe [gofundme/uxmatters]. Good luck, y’all!

3 useful microinteraction design tips [webflow].

Burn, Baby, Burn

News/business

Looks like the new Pixel 2 XL displays are getting a bit of burn-in after just two weeks [arstechnica].

Looks like Bitcoin’s gonna fork again [motherboard.vice]. Always with the forking! One thing with that article - excellent use of stock photography up top.

Turns out poachers are using the GPS data from photos to find and poach rare animal species [motherboard.vice]. Just when you thought poachers couldn’t be more awful.

Two things: 1. A newly discovered moon tunnel could be the perfect place for a moon colony [washingtonpost]. 2. “moon tunnel” is a term people use now!

Proposal: find your top talent and fire them [medium.freecodecamp]. Not really, but that article does tell a good story about what happened when one troubled/troubling genius was given the boot.

A/B testing: you’re doing it wrong [hackernoon]. Idea: do an A/B test of A/B testing methods, to really make sure you’re doing the best you can.

Notion [notion] is a collaborative workspace for teams.

FLOW-e [flow-e] turns your inbox into a task board.

Pick Up the Tab

Everything else

Apollo [macstories] is a modern iOS Reddit client.

Donate Your Tab [donateyourtab] is a new tab app that’ll apparently mine cryptocurrency and apparently donate it to a worthy cause. A few ‘apparently’s there, as befits the topic.

Finally, as for the tabs you’re not donating, This Tab Will Self Destruct [chrome.google] will, yes, kill your tabs if you don’t touch them for a while. Though obviously you always immediately devour a link from this newsletter, right?

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There's Versioning for ya for Tuesday. I've gotta go, I've got to check for more moon tunnels! Back tomorrow, with more tabs for which you won't need a self-destruct button! See you then!