Web Design: Goon Squad

Monday, October 16, 2017

Goon Squad

I've Got You in My Sights

Front-end

First up: React Sight [github] is a visualization tool that lets you see your React component hierarchy tree.

On the battle in the front-end community between CSS standards and scale [medium].

Writing smarter animation code [css-tricks].

A look at Slack's homepage redesign, in particular its implementation of CSS Grid [slack].

Froala Design Blocks gives you 170+ open-source responsive design blocks for use in your projects [froala].

Triple Threat

Back-end/programming

Using localStorage with Vuex store [mikestreety].

Getting more out of triple equals in Ruby [medium].

What to do about Ruby app servers breaking on High Sierra [phusion].

Fusio is an open-source API management platform [github].

What you need to know about environment variables in PHP [jolicode].

A Real Piece of Work

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

Operations engineering manager [Mozilla], remote.
Systems engineer [Action Verb], remote.
UI/UX designer [FormAssembly], remote in US timezones.

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].

Goldfish Memory

Design/UX/product

Using psychology to design your product [hackernoon].

Google is really good at design, apparently [theoutline].

Making your web typography accessible [creativebloq].

Here's what happens when people try to draw famous logos from memory [boredpanda].

And some lessons learned on the job by a Facebook product designer [medium].

Canary in a Coal Mine

News/business

A serious flaw in WPA2 leaves most Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping [arstechnica].

Anti-tech propaganda is in full swing but the public isn't having any of it [cnbc].

Ride-hailing services are worsening city congestion, study says [planetizen].

Google has made a mess of the field of robotics [bloomberg].

Politifact is the latest site found sporting a cryptocurrency mining script [techcrunch].

Goon Squad

Everything else

North Korea's cyber-attack force is turning into a serious threat [nytimes].

A look at the machine learning behind Spotify's Discover Weekly [hackernoon].

The impossible dream of USB-C [marco].

A look at why power grids aren't going down left, right and center with all these effective North Korean hacking squads around [wired].

That's Versioning for Monday! I'm off to fit some sentry turrets around my local power station, though I'm still figuring out how that's going to help deter the North Korean hackers. I'll catch you again tomorrow.

Also: we're on the home stretch now, with Adam back later this week - presuming he hasn't been claimed by an Antarctic sinkhole. Hit me up with any great post-wedding prank ideas you have, preferably not involving sentry turrets.