Web Design: Race Against Time

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Race Against Time

Fill Your Boots

Front-end

First up, everything you need to know about Bootstrap 4 [medium.freecodecamp].

Getting acquainted with Angular and TypeScript [x-team]. Trigger warning: contains a Dragonball Z reference.

Congrats Rachel Andrew on becoming editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, congrats Smashing Magazine in getting Rachel Andrew onboard as editor-in-chief! [smashingmagazine] Good times all round.

Race Against Time

Back-end/programming

A list and examination of common cognitive biases in programming [medium/@evidanary].

Dynamic programming: first principles [flawlessrhetoric].

Facebook has open sourced RacerD, offering fast static race detection at scale [code.facebook].

Osprey the Bills

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

Experienced front-end developer [Osprey Informatics], 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].

Flow Rider

Design/UX/product

The differences between user journey and user flow [uxplanet].

11 common analytics pitfalls to watch out for [sitepoint].

Within 2018 [gowithin] is a great-looking leadership retreat for women in design, in April 2018.

Pay Phone

News/business

Smartphones are getting more expensive [recode].

Someone was arrested because Facebook mistranslated “good morning” as “attack them” [theguardian].

Twitter’s going to start labelling political ads, along with who bought them and how much they spent [cnbc].

If you want millions of dollars in salary and equity, become an artificial intelligence expert [nytimes]. But, like, hurry, before AI just takes over.

Idea: basic income plus blockchain equals a new economic system [fastcompany].

More than 280 pre-built website templates for ya [sitepoint]. Seems useful!

How to find your first 10 customers [stripe].

Or you could use, PipeCandy, which will find you leads using machine learning [pipecandy].

Data shows men and women are treated differently at work [hbr].

This site will let you know how much you can make selling something online [bootstrap].

Used to Bullseye Womp Rats in My T-16 Back Home

Everything else

Gmail now has add-ons [blog.google]. They look useful!

coLaboratory [colab.research.google] is a Google tool that allows collaborative data science and analysis.

earth [earth.nullschool] is a global map of wind, weather and ocean conditions which is just kinda fun to look at. Also, probably useful and educational, I just haven’t gotten that far yet.

Breaking news: your brain is not a computer [aeon].

Finally, an ode to the middle part of Star Wars: A New Hope [kottke]. Also good? The start and end of that film.

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There's Versioning for ya for Wednesday - I'll just quickly go and watch A New Hope. Actually, then I'll also watch all of the Star Wars films. But once I've done that I'll be right back with Versioning tomorrow.

So yeah, I'll probably have Versioning tomorrow. If the Falcon can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, I should be able to manage that. See you then!