Web Design: Kick, Push

Monday, October 30, 2017

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Magic Touch

Front-end

First up, how to structure components in React [reallifeprogramming].

react-snap [github/stereobooster] is a zero-config static pre-renderer for single-page apps.

A guide to debugging React with VSCode [hackernoon].

How to quickly create simple, powerful Angular forms [sitepoin].

Some experiments with the latest CSS Houdini spec [lab.aimvdo].

Mocktales

Back-end/programming

WordPress + PWAs, together at last [youtube/googlechromedevelopers].

How to build a better Google Analytics [lugassy].

Eric Elliot hates mocking [medium/javascript-scene].

An intro to Source Maps in Webpack [bendyworks].

Do you want your iPhone X app to be there on launch day? You can now submit it to Apple [developer.apple].

Kick, Push

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

Software engineer team lead [Kickboard], remote, Eastern and Central United States timezones preferred.
Full-stack Ruby engineer [Doximity], San Francisco or remote.
Senior Rails engineer [ConvertKit], 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].

Lead Zeplin

Design/UX/product

How to make paper prototypes [sitepoint].

How to apply human-centered design to emerging tech [medium/googleplaydev].

Google has a bunch of resources for designing UX for the next billion users [design.google].

5 differences between good and great designers [uxplanet].

What makes a good product designer [blog.usejournal].

How to manage design files within teams [uxdesign].

Zeplin and Figma are now integrated [blog.zeplin].

Hard Graphed

News/business

Looks like sales of the iPhone 8 are a bit down as, presumably, people wait for the iPhone X to come out in the next week [cnet].

Meanwhile, most of the big tech companies reported earnings - here’s a solid summary of their reports [axios]. Most are doing quite nicely, thank you very much.

Samsung used 40 of old Galaxy S5s as a Bitcoin mining rig [motherboard.vice].

An epic tale of losing US $30,000 in Bitcoin [wired].

Mind you, the blockchain is so old-fashioned - Hashgraph is where it’s at [squawker].

Google’s sentiment analyzer has some fairly awful opinions - it thinks being gay or being Jewish is bad [motherboard.vice]. They’re fixing it, but it’s a good example of the dangers of biased data when it comes to AI.

A definitive guide to SEO in 2018 [backlino].

Make or Break

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

MakeApp [itunes.apple] is an AI-powered app that lets you add or remove make-up from photos.

How to reduce your carbon footprint in 2017 [arstechnica].

A summary of Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, which crashed the website that hosted it [theconversation].

Interesting take: “An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?” [venturebeat]. Think about it.

An ode to group messaging, the last safe space for minorities online [theringer].

Finally, an introduction to (the very excellent) writer, Tweeter, and overall legend Shea Serrano, and his online FOH army [mashable]. I’m currently reading his book Basketball (And Other Things) [amazon] after loving his last one - no surprise, it’s very good.

There's Versioning on Monday. I hope your weekend treated you well, and it at least didn't involve you losing $30k in Bitcoin, or an AI god emerging and insisting you worship it. Don't you hate when that happens?

I'll have some more for you tomorrow, and by then I'll have started earning Ethereum by way of an old iPhone 4 I found the other day. See you then with an update!