Web Design: Liteweight

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Liteweight

Load ‘er Up

Front-end

First up, a comprehensive guide to font loading strategies [zachleat].

A guide to building a web component with vanilla JS [ayushgp].

How to consume remote API data via HTTP in a Vue.js app [thepolyglotdeveloper].

And we’ve got an 🚨 actual good deal alert 🚨 The Complete React Web Developer Course [completereactcourse]. It’s very, very good, and if you buy it through that special link you’ll get a shocking 90% off, making it just $10.

Liteweight

Back-end/programming

“I watched all of the Chrome Dev Summit videos so you don’t have to” [redfin.engineering].

And a minimalist guide to SQLite [tech.marksblogg].

Churn It Up

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

Senior Rails developer [Semaphore CI], remote
Full-stack engineer [Churnbuster], 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].

Dear Diary

Design/UX/product

An intro to color management and gamut [bjango].

Time for a closer look at Google Calendar’s new design [blog.usejournal].

A look at different design communities around the world [vanschneider].

Making Bank

News/business

Cryptocurrencies’ total value hit a record high, worth US $184 billion [reuters]. That’s a lot of Dogecoin.

This is kinda terrifying - it’s now possible to produce physical objects (3D printed stuff tailor-made for the purpose) that fool neural nets [labsix]. In the example, a model of a frog was identified by a neural net as a rifle. Might be problematic!

Here are the Facebook and Instagram ads Russian trolls bought during the US election [motherboard.vice].

The iPhone X’s FaceID is fooled by identical twins [mashable]. To be fair, most people are, really.

Half of internet traffic comes from bots [axios]. Hi, bots!

How to be more productive [thesweetsetup].

Semi-related, Zapier now has team functionality [zapier].

Hammer Time

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

Here’s 321 gigabytes of Osama Bin Laden’s digital stuff [arstechnica].

A video of Sony’s robotic dog “aibo” being all cute and stuff [youtube/kimpohliaw]. I’m working from home today, so I played that video to my cat, and she was not impressed. Which could mean anything, really.

Finally, the new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi is here and it is exciting! [youtube/starwars] A couple of things here: do they need to even make trailers for Star Wars movies at this point? Everyone is definitely going to go and see it! And do I even need to share the link in the newsletter? You’ve definitely all watched the trailer already! Well, watch it again!

There's a Thursday Versioning for ya! I'll be back tomorrow, once I've watched that trailer again a few dozen times. Might show it to my cat, actually. She's really becoming a feline Roger Ebert.

Back tomorrow, I will be.

(Is Yoda in this one? Maybe his son?)