Web Design: Adventure Time

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Adventure Time

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Front-end

First up, a collection of CSS grid starter templates for layouts and patterns [css-tricks].

How to create accessible menu systems [smashingmagazine].

How to handle JavaScript errors with try, throw, catch and finally [codeburst].

An intro to minmax() [gridbyexample].

Scrollama [github/russellgoldenberg] is a JavaScript library that uses IntersectionObserver for storytelling.

Less is More

Back-end/programming

23 dev tools that’ll help you boost your site’s performance [sitepoint].

How to design PWAs in the age of the browserless web [smashingmagazine].

AWS Fargate [aws.amazon] is a tool for running containers without managing infrastructure. Cool name, too.

The new landscape of DDoS [blog.cloudflare].

An intro to Flutter, a mobile app SDK that appears poised to take off [codeburst].

Adventure Time

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

Database and infrastructure engineer [Baremetrics], remote.
Full-stack developer [Much Better Adventures], 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 Me the Money

Design/UX/product

How CloudApp can improve your product design workflow [sitepoint].

The 2018 UX designer salary forecast [medium.muz.li].

Aw Snap

News/business

Looks like a new strain of Mirai, the Internet of Things malware that roared into the world last September, is back[arstechnica].

Essential founder and CEO Andy Rubin, the Android guy, has taken a leave of absence following a report from The Information about an inappropriate relationship with a woman who worked under him who filed a complaint to HR[theverge].

Snapchat is rolling out a redesigned app, there will now be a separation between your friends and the media[techcrunch]. Also, it will now be easier to use. So, good news, all thing’s considered.

How Instagram reorganized its engineering team while quadrupling its size [hbr].

Developer David Dias, who built the very popular Front-end Checklist I highlighted over the last few weeks, explains how that project accumulated 6000 stars on GitHub in five days [medium/@thedaviddias].

Foiled Again

Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)

An Australian man used foil snack food packaging as a Faraday cage to stop his employer tracking him so he could go play golf during work hours [arstechnica]. Truly a genius, who deserved to either be fired or promoted. (He was fired.)

Franz [franz] is a macOS tool that’ll let you handle all your messaging tools at once - Facebook Messenger, Slack, Skype, WhatsApp, all work with the app.

A guide to avoiding state surveillance [motherboard.vice].

After experiencing chest pains and other symptoms of stress and exhaustion, this Wired writer took a digital detox [wired].

Finally, here’s the Avengers: Infinity War trailer [youtube]. There are so many people in this trailer! I think I’m in it? It’s out May 4 and I guess, fine, I’ll see it. You got me, Marvel.

There's Versioning for Thursday. I'll be spending the rest of the day buying snacks for my Faraday cage. Honestly, that's what they're for, I swear! I figure locked my phone away in potato chip packets is a good way to start on this digital detox thing, and also avoid any state surveillance that may be happening. Then, when I get sick of that, I'll watch that trailer again, who am I kidding?

Back tomorrow, fellow Avengers!