Web Design: Goldeneye

Monday, November 20, 2017

Goldeneye

Keep ‘Em Separated

Front-end

First up, a bunch of modern front-end hacking cheatsheets [medium.freecodecamp].

Argument: currying is maybe in conflict with some of JavaScript’s foundations [2ality].

Simple patterns for code separation [css-tricks].

A guide to performance tuning a React app [codeburst].

Atom now has Teletype, allowing teams to code together in real-time [blog.atom].

Browsers: Assemble

Back-end/programming

FYI: all 4 major browsers support WebAssembly now [blog.mozilla].

A tutorial on building a REST API from a Google spreadsheet [x-team].

Reminder: using JavaScript has costs [medium/dev-channel].

Status Update

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

Senior Java SDK developer [Enjin Coin], remote.
Software engineer (Go) [Status], 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].

Goldeneye

Design/UX/product

Miller’s Law is the number one rule in UX design that everyone breaks [blog.prototypr].

Speaking of stuff for humans: a collection of resources to help you bring human-centered design to your projects [methods.18f].

Threed [threed] is a tool to generate 3D mock-ups right there in your browser.

A summary of the new features that came with Adobe XD’s 2.0 release [helpx.adobe].

Here’s a bit of a trend: gold! [medium/ux-power-tools]

Sieve Our Souls

News/business

Amazon head Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark go deep on growing up and their secrets to success[summit].

I found a bunch of tools to make business - particularly freelancing - a bit easier.

Sieve [sievehq] offers tools to make things like client onboarding a bit more streamlined and easy.

An influencer marketing stack [mention].

And Followup [followup] is personal a CRM.

4 effective knowledge transfer methods for software teams [codingsans].

16,000th Rock from the Sun*

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

Check out The Wirecutter's guide to the best holiday gifts for 2017 [thewirecutter].

And if you’d like to gift (yourself, maybe) a VPN subscription for Christmas, we’ve got the deal for you! [sitepoint]

Weird Twitter savant Dril has been unmasked as someone named Paul [avclub]. If you’ve never seen Dril’s tweets, FYI that a) they are funny, b) they are often a bit sweary.

Finally, a thing you shouldn’t panic about: NASA has found 16,000 asteroids near Earth [vox]. No biggie.

* Remember 3rd Rock from the Sun?! John Lithgow! Young Joseph Gordon-Levitt! The theme song! What a show.

There it is, more Versioning than you can shake a stick at! By incredible coincidence, that was the 16,000th edition! (It wasn't, that would be ridiculous, but one day we'll get there!)

I'll have another edition for you tomorrow. I actually may have watched the entire run of 3rd Rock from the Sun by then, if so I will make sure to report back on particularly good episodes to watch.

Back tomorrow, fellow earthlings!