Rags to Twitches

No Images? Click here Off the Grid Front-end First up, how to use the lightweight Preact library as a React alternative [sitepoint]. Mozilla has a great introduction to CSS Grid layouts [mozilladevelopers]. And once you're up and building, learn to navigate common CSS Grid stumbling blocks [smashingmagazine]. A guide to reliable React component architecture [dmitripavlutin]. JavaScript ES6 template literals are strictly better than strings [ponyfoo]. Slowpoke Back-end/programming Extracting website data and creating APIs with WrapAPI [sitepoint]. Oracle has announced a self-patching, self-optimizing database driven by machine learning [siliconangle]. A guide to debugging why your Ruby unit specs have slowed down [robots.thoughtbot]. Does your app need to collect information from Slack users, such as location, a/s/l or social security number? Now it can with dialogs [api.slack]. Or you could just ask Equifax. How Facebook performed a very large database migration from InnoDB to MyRocks [code.facebook]. A Real Piece of Work Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs) Operations engineer [Red Guava], Melbourne or remote. Product engineer [Zapier], remote. Front-end engineer [Udacity], remote. Want your next open position here? You should! 45,000 very qualified readers will see it and a slightly smaller number of those will apply! Go here and place your ad [sitepoint]. Go With the Flow Design/UX/product An introduction to interaction flows [uxplanet]. A look at the deliverables UX designers are most commonly required to create [smashingmagazine]. A designer tries to make Facebook reactions more usable [prototypr]. Speckyboy spoke to Atlassian's head designers about the new Atlassian design system [speckyboy]. Five minutes to better typography [pierrickcalvez]. Unbreak the News News/business Google is making changes to assist the struggling publishing industry it has had a hand in breaking [bloomberg]. A complete list of the proposed governance changes dividing Uber's board [recode]. Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel on the pros and cons of three main career paths in the tech industry [blog.ycombinator]. The Equifax hack is looking more and more like a state-sponsored attack [bloomberg]. How Ivan Mir increased his monthly productive hours from 100 to 200 over the last year [gotogot]. Rags to Twitches Everything else A profile of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds creator Brendan Greene [bloomberg], who went from welfare to millionaire with the game's runaway success. Modern AI is taking off on the back of a 30 year-old breakthrough — how far can we take it with our current understanding? [technologyreview] Nootropics like modafinil or piracetam are low-key trendy in tech circles, but you probably haven't spent $200k on biohacking like this guy [hackernoon]. Nobody, including Mark Zuckerberg [nymag], is entirely sure what Facebook has become. That's Versioning for Monday! I'll be back tomorrow, after a restful sleep with electrodes taped to my head, and after I've chased down my morning stack of nootropics, cell-repairing nanites, and midichlorians with a bulletproof coffee. I don't know why I'm growing tendrils, but I've never felt better! Curated by Adam Joel. Wait, why am I here, what is this? You're receiving this email because you've signed up for Versioning, SitePoint's daily email for web developers. Manage your preferences to stop receiving Versioning, or unsubscribe from all SitePoint emails below.   Like    Tweet    Share    Forward  Preferences   |   Unsubscribe