Web Design: First Among SQLs

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Space Invaders

Design/UX/product

Foundations for starting Sketch design powerfully [designcode].

How to use spacing in your layout designs [sitepoint].

A piece on seeking “super normal” UX design [digitalwaveriding].

Blockbuster

News/business

An unemployed man found a USB stick containing unencrypted files which included security details for Heathrow Airport and the travel plans of the Queen [arstechnica].

Facebook says Russian memes reached 126 million people [fastcompany] which is… quite a lot.

Want your company’s stock to surge? Just add “blockchain” to the company’s name [bloomberg].

Walmart’s bringing robots to its stores [businessinsider]. Presumably increasing stocks of oil, batteries and RAM.

What it’s like to work at Amazon [tbray].

How to build diverse teams [kateheddleston].

Developers no longer need resumes, they need portfolios [toptal].

43 excellent bulletpoints on how to be more productive [betterhumans.coach].

Ten out of X

Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)

This “Git it Gurl” bomber jacket [shop.bubblesort] is a fantastic item for you or any gurl you know who could do with an encouragement to git it via the medium of apparel. Not too long to git it (the jacket, that is) so get (I think I made my joke thoroughly) in quick!

Endless Computers [endlessos] are beautiful and great.

Are neutron stars’ insides squishy or solid? That’s a real debate, apparently [quantamagazine]. My take? Give them some privacy, please!

Steven Levy, who reviewed the original iPhone, reviews the iPhone X [wired]. Turns out it’s better than the original one!

I also spent a bit of time on the site youtube.com today and these were my fav two video iPhone X reviews:

UrAvgConsumer [youtube/uravgconsumer] and Sara Dietschy [youtube/saradietschy]. Both offer some useful normal user takes on the phone, helpful against the tide of Apple nerdery we can expect. The phone looks kinda good though, right?

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There's Versioning for ya for Tuesday. I guess I'll balance my time between more reviews of the iPhone X, and putting some of those bulletpoints on productivity into action. Those two things don't contradict each other, right?

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