Web Design: Gentle as a Lambda

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Gentle as a Lambda

Write Said Fred

Front-end

First up, a front-end checklist on everything you need to do before you launch a site to production [codeburst].

In this talk at CSS Day 2017, Jen Simmons explains how the writing mode spec in CSS works [vimeo/webconferencesamsterdam].

Great web agency Postlight released a React and WordPress starter kit [trackchanges].

And, a guide to building a React app with user authentication in 15 minutes [sitepoint].

Gentle as a Lambda

Back-end/programming

How to deploy an Angular 2/Node app to AWS [codeburst].

An AMA with the AWS Lambda serverless team [reddit/r/aws].

How some organization called the BBC moved to HTTPS [medium/bbc-design-engineering].

Tock OS [tockos] is an IoT operating system.

Press Play

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

Software engineer [Pressable], remote.
Ruby on Rails developer [TaxJar], 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].

Icon Believe It

Design/UX/product

More than 170 free, high-quality icons [iconbros].

Every shortcut for every app designers need [shortcuts.design].

Check out Apple’s new identity for Apple Music [creativereview].

You should be embracing the iPhone X notch in your designs [julian].

Apparently the iPhone X is a user experience “nightmare” [fastcodesign]. Luckily I won’t be able to experience this nightmare for a long, long time.

Lone Ranger

News/business

Meet Dopamine, the company that is dedicated to making you (even more) addicted to your phone [techcrunch].

Facebook’s come up with a new system to combat revenge porn. Step one: send Facebook nudes. Step two: a real person reviews (blurred versions of) them [motherboard.vice]. Step three: machine learning, I guess?

What it’s like as a small business trying to make it big online [digg].

5 hard realities when it comes to work-life balance at an early-stage start-up [planted].

Guru.Social [guru.social] is a service aimed at automating all aspects of your social media marketing.

You should spend more time alone [calnewport]. Does just hanging out with your cat count? If so: way, way, way ahead of you.

Get Smart

Everything else (today, mostly AI)

So I had a bunch of Artificial Intelligence-focused links in the link hopper and thought I’d use it as an excuse for a more focused “Everything else” section! Lemme know if this focus idea appeals.

This 2015 Wait But Why post on AI and superintelligence [waitbutwhy] came up again in a newsletter I subscribe to (funny how that happens!) and I read it and it’s even better the second time.

Now, some useful stuff simple AI can do right now, while we wait for superintelligence:

If you live (and drive) in Phoenix, Arizona, you’ve now shared the road with unsupervised driverless cars [arstechnica].

But if you don’t live in Phoenix, here’s a neural network playing Mario Kart [youtube/sethbling].

And Re:Scam [rescam] is an AI tool from New Zealand (so you know it’s good!) that’ll engage with email scammers so you don’t have to.

Anyway, on to a couple of non-AI links: Here’s the location of the Windows XP default wallpaper [atlasobscura]. Like, it’s lovely, but it does give me awful flashbacks.

Finally, Nintendo once made Flash games(!), and a determined modder is bringing them back [origami].

There's Versioning for Thursday. Actually, I have one more link for you, because you've been good and I like the link a lot. Just head to this page [saveabro], buy a (very funny) t-shirt, and 100% of the proceeds will go towards fighting prostate cancer. Thanks to Matt for tweeting that through.

It's a great cause, and the shirts feature great puns. It's a win-win as far as I'm concerned! Back with some more intelligent links tomorrow, by the way!