Web Design: Master and Commander

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Master and Commander

A to Z

Front-end

First up, some simple React patterns [codementor].

The art of commenting in code [css-tricks].

And one way to handle z-index [hackernoon].

How to create custom components with Component IO [sitepoint].

Master and Commander

Back-end/programming

A reasonable approach to getting acquainted with the command line [css-tricks].

Once you’re acquainted with the command line, a guide to writing your first PHP code [sitepoint].

And a quick guide to deep learning [medium.freecodecamp], just because.

Slightly more advanced, TensorFlow now has something called eager execution [research.googleblog], meaning it’ll execute operations immediate as they’re called from Python, making it easier to get started with TF.

This Chrome extension brings the power of Insight.io to GitHub [chrome.google].

Absolutely Fabulous

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

Lead developer, Airtime Pro [Sourcefabric], remote
Systems engineer [Pressable], 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].

Space Invaders

Design/UX/product

A collection of UI gradients styles for Sketch [gumroad].

This site will give ya responsive screenshots when you give it a URL [responsive-screenshots].

A comprehensive overview of UX design deliverables [medium/thinking-design].

An intro to color in the context of designing a form layout [sitepoint].

Leave Your Lava

News/business

Google, Facebook and Twitter had a bit of a chat with a United States congressional panel. Turns out their platforms hosted a disinformation campaign by Russia last year [arstechnica]. They’re working on it, though. I assume that’s the last we’ll hear on this subject.

If you think that’s bad, well, it is. But worse is some of the stuff happening on Facebook overseas [nytimes].

Oh, one more, unrelated FB link: you know that phenomenon where you’ll see an ad for something that you’re pretty sure you’ve only talked about on the phone? “That’s not a real thing,” Facebook’s VP of ads says, adding fuel to the fire [cnbc].

NASA’s got a plan to save the world from a supervolcano [bbc].

Google now has a predictions engine, powered by machine learning, you can use to grow your app [firebase.google].

Hammer Time

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

Gosu AI [gosu.ai] is a tool that’ll analyze your eSports play and recommend improvements.

Oak [oakmeditation] is a meditation app from Digg founder Kevin Rose. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks good!

The now-annual “new iPhone goes to Disneyland” review, with the iPhone X [techcrunch].

Finally, the “steamed hams” bit from The Simpsons, as a Guitar Hero song [youtube/expnandbanana]. It’s actually quite incredible. Though I'm someone who frequently refers to burgers as steamed hams, so your mileage may vary.

There's Versioning for ya for Wednesday. A mid-week Versioning! What a time!

I'll be out to look for a copy of Guitar Hero and a copy of the complete Simpsons box set. I mean, I could meditate, but I feel like this achieves the same result.

See ya tomorrow, assuming I lost interest in either Guitar Hero or The Simpsons - kinda unlikely!