Web Design: Rocket, Man

Friday, October 20, 2017

Rocket, Man

Acting is Reacting

Front-end

A demo of lazy loading with SVG [codepen/ainalem].

Dynamic shape overlays with SVG [tympanus].

Now, if you’re keen to go from zero to a solid React beginner, we have you covered, book-wise:

📖 Your First Week with React [sitepoint] is a collection of tutorials that will help you master the basics of the library.

📖 React Tools and Resources [sitepoint] helps you work out the tooling most used with React.

And 📖 5 Practical React Projects [sitepoint] provides you with projects you can use to put your new skills into practice.

Oh, another 📖, this time from the kind people at Pony Foo: mastering modular JavaScript [ponyfoo].

And some productivity tips for Angular and WebStorm [sitepoint].

Knock Knock

Back-end/programming

An overview of security in Node [nemethgergely].

Node Knockout [nodeknockout] looks to be a fun, 48-hour hackathon next month. Take a look, sign up, win, then tell me how you did it!

Five things you’ll learn when you start using React Native [medium/magnetis-backstage].

Six simple examples that’ll make you love Obervables in rxjs [x-team].

Job Bluth

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

Senior front-end developer [Sticker Mule], remote.
Lead full-stack engineer [InVision], 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].

Show, Don’t Tell

Design/UX/product

Dropbox Showcase [dropbox] is a new Dropbox service that’ll make it easier to show off your work to (potential) clients.

How to actually get the right people into your user research sessions [sitepoint].

That last article is excerpted from the excellent new SitePoint 📖 - Researching UX: User Research [sitepoint].

Rocket, Man

News/business

Blue Origin has successfully tested its powerful rocket engine, opening the door to orbital and deep space missions [arstechnica].

How Apple used machine learning to power “Hey Siri” [machinelearning.apple].

Want to track people like a creep? Have US $1000 dollars? Mobile ads are all you need [wired].

Nielsen will now track audiences on (notoriously secretive streaming service) Netflix [techcrunch].

An intro to why the “crypto” part of cryptocurrency matters [bitfalls].

Storyline [thestoryline] lets you create voice apps without any coding.

Why you can focus in a coffee shop but not your office [hbr]. While the 12 lattes do play a part, that’s not the whole story.

Scheduling 15 minutes of personal development time every day will change your life [journal.thriveglobal]. Or at least help a little bit.

Grin and Bear It

Everything else

Some guy named Tim Cook says the Mac Mini is not dead, will be a part of the Apple line in the foreseeable future [macrumors].

Weekend read: the story of CSS Grid, from its creators [alistapart].

A trailer for Beartopia, the most adorable Daydream VR game I’ve yet seen [youtube]. Not announced yet - Beertopia, the embarrassing, sloppy, confusing spin-off.

Hopefully this came in time for your Halloween dress-up: a guide to building your own “gaping chest wound" costume [arstechnica]. If you've already got your costume sorted, you could still use the tutorial to put a fun new spin on other holidays, like Christmas.

Amazing: this new Lego set honors the women of NASA [arstechnica].

And finally, this song - a club banger - samples Encarta ‘95 [factmag].

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There's Versioning for another day, another week. I hope your week has gone well, and that you have some excellent plans for the weekend, including producing a sweet Halloween costume and consuming 12 lattes at the local coffee house. I'll be back Monday, after spending most of the weekend quickly bingeing a bunch of embarrassing Netflix shows. Standard weekend, really.