Take It Down a Notch

No Images? Click here A Total Drag Front-end First: 6 pro tips from React developers [sitepoint]. Building out the front-end, but the back-end's not quite done? Mockoon [mockoon] is an app that lets you run mock APIs locally. Get up to speed with JSX [sitepoint]. Why there's no such thing as a 100% correct way to structure a React app [hackernoon]. Check out Shopify's modular drag & drop JavaScript library [shopify.github], with some pretty cool demos on the project page. Float Your Boat Back-end/programming Measure anything in Laravel with StatsD [laravel-news]. A checklist for reliable load-testing [qafoo]. Floating points, visually explained [fabiensanglard]. SerpentAI [github] is a game agent framework that'll help you build AI bots for any game you own. For research, ostensibly. Building a Slackbot in Laravel with BotMan Studio 2.0 [christoph-rumpel]. All in a Day's Work Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs) Senior Full Stack Engineer [Logikcull], San Francisco or remote. PHP developer [X-Team], remote. Senior WordPress Frontend Developer [Modern Tribe], 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]. Take It Down a Notch Design/UX/product How designers should prepare to work on AI [fastcodesign]. Improve your Firefox extension by getting acquainted with its new Photon Design System [design.firefox]. How not to screw up your creative mojo [medium]. Advice from Marvel on designing for the iPhone X [marvelapp], which goes beyond dealing with the notch. A look at UI design for eCommerce [uxplanet]. A Kernel of Bluetooth News/business The macOS kernel has been open-source forever, and the iOS kernel has joined the club [techcrunch]. Designers and retouchers in France now need to add a disclaimer to Photoshopped images of models [davidairey]. Microsoft is retiring Groove Music, and Spotify is the big winner [theverge]. POP!_OS is a(nother) developer-focused minimalist Linux distro [thenextweb]. Unsolicited career advice for tech marketers [hackernoon]. Peas in a Pod Everything else Pod is a calendar app [pod] that tells you who isn't on your calendar, but should be. Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan talks about the difficulties in developer communication [arstechnica]. How Stack Overflow tries to make remote work better [stackoverflow]. How to write more when you're busy [writingcooperative]. That's Versioning for Tuesday! Tonight I'll be hard at work building a bot that climbs the Overwatch ladder for me. I'll be back tomorrow, probably after I pen an angry letter to Jeff about my totally unfair ban. 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