Web Design: In No Way, Shape or SVG

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].

You Do the Math

Design/UX/product

How to set numerals with style in web typography [alistapart].

Getting started with design for VR and AR [marvelapp].

Should you use ghost buttons [blog.prototypr] in your interfaces?

A history of mathematical typography [practicallyefficient].

Test and choose Google Fonts in record time with Tyffle [tyffle].

Feel a Billion Dollars

News/business

Google has released a design overhaul of Calendar [blog.google], as well as new features like the ability to add rich formatting and links to event invites.

Microsoft's internal bug tracking database was hacked in 2013, and the company dealt with it a little too quietly [reuters].

In happier news, Microsoft has launched the Surface Book 2, with 13.5" and 15" options and pretty decent discrete GPUs [thenextweb].

A look at the new features in Windows 10's Fall Creators Update [engadget].

Alright, enough Microsoft. How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace [andrewchen].

But make sure your billion dollar marketplace doesn't stagnate, like eBay has [racked].

You Must Be from Mars

Everything else

The ethics of Mars exploration [space].

A video essay about what happens now that the Uncanny Valley of computer graphics is behind us [kottke].

If you're going to sell your MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, you might want to ensure you clear its data [9to5mac].

This is a bit of a worry: how iCloud Drive can break Time Machine backups [eclecticlight].

How malicious actors can fool computer vision systems to, for example, interpret a stop sign as a Speed Limit 45 sign [blog.caranddriver].

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There's Versioning for Wednesday, and for me in general! I'll be back in the reader's chair as of tomorrow, now that Adam has returned. Thanks for having me for the past few weeks, and be sure to tweet some wedding congratulations his way (all 48,000 of you preferably, for my entertainment).