Web Design: A Laughing Stock

Friday, November 10, 2017

A Laughing Stock

Shard Work

Front-end

Firstly, Shards [designrevision] is a free, light, and nice-looking UI kit based on Bootstrap 4.

As of v16, React now has something called “Portals”, here’s a guide to using them [hackernoon].

How to create a note-taking Vue component using TDD and Unite.js [codeburst].

Examples of code smells in CSS [css-tricks].

All Part of the Service

Back-end/programming

Huh, Netflix functions without client-side React - that’s great, Jake Archibald argues [jakearchibald].

How IBM uses GraphQL as a lingua franca of microservices architecture [sourcegraph].

A guide to getting high-performance service worker loading [developers.google].

Some best practices for working with Node [github/i0natan].

Heavy Flitter

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

Senior Node.js/React developer [ManageFlitter], remote or on-site (Sydney, Australia).
Devops leader [Clevertech], 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].

A Laughing Stock

Design/UX/product

How psychology principles are used in UX design [whatusersdo].

Proto.io can now do VR prototyping [proto].

Stock Against Photography [stockagainstphotography] is a game for design nerds (or just nerds) - it’s like Cards Against Humanity, but with bad stock photos!

Let’s Enhance [letsenhance] is a machine learning-powered tool for upscaling images that are a bit blocky or low-res.

And Design Disruptors [designdisruptors] is a documentary about… design… disruptors… by InVision.

When Push Comes to Shove

News/business

Uber’s new thing is flying Ubers [uber]. Yep. I guess you can never accuse them of lacking ambition.

Former Facebook founding president Sean Parker is no longer super keen on the social network [axios].

A cleverly designed article covering our (unhealthy, stressful) relationship with push alerts [slate].

Today in “ideas I agree with”: it’s time to start talking about start-up entrepreneurs’ mental health [businessinsider]. Also, mental health in general.

The three keys to successfully remote working [vanschneider].

What it’s like to be a dev at: DigitalOcean, Lyft, GitLab, Slack and other exciting places [increment].

Drew sent through a piece that attempts to demystify narrow and broad software skillsets [toptal]. Cheers Drew!

Pale Blue Dot

Everything else (today, mostly AI)

Mike got in touch to let me know he’s working on a directory for good newsletters. If you’ve got any ideas, head here to add them to the list [docs.google]. Looks like Versioning is on the list already!

Already sick of Twitter’s new 280-character tweet length? Kick it old school with this Chrome extension that’ll limit you to 140 chars, and truncate everyone else’s tweets as well [chrome.google].

Well this is certainly something: Disney’s announced: a new trilogy of Star Wars films! Directed by Rian Johnson! And a live-action TV series! [arstechnica].

Finally, this is what the Earth looks like from 10,000 miles up, according to NASA [nasa].

There it is, another week of Versioning direct to your inbox. I hope you're doing well as we head into the weekend, and I hope you have a fun one planned. All I'm doing this weekend is attempting to make a loaf of sourdough bread. Actually, shortly after that attempt, I'm going to buy a loaf of sourdough bread. If anyone has any tips for either of those activities, please, please pass them on. I'm so scared.

Back on Monday, covered in flour, as usual.