Web Design: Game of Silicones

Friday, October 6, 2017

Game of Silicones

Give It a REST

Front-end

First up, find out how GraphQL differs from REST [pusher].

Addy Osmani's new, free ebook on image optimization [images].

New to JS and want to learn? Work through your first couple of JavaScript programs [sitepoint].

Implementing Laravel's authorization on the front-end.

Learn all about Vue.js transitions and animations.

Ruby off Rails

Back-end/programming

Check out Zapier's new open source page [zapier], featuring 27 tools the company uses to power its workflows.

Testing Laravel middleware with HTTP tests [laravel-news].

API authentication with Node.js [code.tutsplus].

What one developer learned after using Ruby without Rails for 18 months [monterail].

Stripe payments in Laravel [quickadminpanel].

A Real Piece of Work

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

Senior front-end React developer [MeetEdgar], remote in the US.
Senior developer [Josephine], remote.
Senior Java engineer [Technical Integrity], remote.

Want your next open position here? You should! 45,000 very qualified, discerning, cool readers will see it and a slightly smaller number of those will apply! Go here and place your ad [sitepoint].

Thumbnail Sketch

Design/UX/product

Huge Sketch files slowing you down? Reduce by Flawless [flawlessapp] compresses them instantly.

Fundamentals of responsive images [lullabot].

13 must-have UX tools for designers [hackernoon].

Reflecting on Figma's first year [figma].

What's design like in North Korea? [creativereview]

Rough Around the Edges

News/business

Microsoft has released the Edge browser for iOS in preview, with Android coming soon [venturebeat].

Russian hackers stole NSA data on the United States' cyber defenses [wsj].

Today in distracting work chat apps, Facebook has launched a desktop app for Workplace [techcrunch].

Zest is a Chrome new tab extension [zest] that'll show you the best hand-curated digital marketing content.

Advice on being a mentor in the web industry [alistapart].

Game of Silicones

Everything else

A neat series of features on the future of driving [caranddriver] in a self-driving future.

A gigantic radar blob turned out to be a horde of migrating butterflies [motherboard].

Right now blockchains are best known for underpinning cryptocurrencies - here's a piece on how they could be used in the future [ieee].

A focus workshop from Shawn Blanc [thesweetsetup], whose productivity advice goes far beyond the usual lifehacks and fluff.

Finally, a data analysis of Game of Thrones that answers the question: who is the real main character of the show? [thenextweb]

That's Versioning for this Friday. I'm going to spend the weekend avoiding reading as much as possible so that I'm fresh when I see you back here next week. Maybe I'll analyze some of my favorite ensemble shows instead. Who was the real lead on The Next Generation? Picard? Riker? Q? Lwaxana? Answers within on Monday.