Web Design: Page Turner

Monday, November 6, 2017

Page Turner

All the More Reason

Front-end

First up, some CSS: Tailwind CSS [tailwindcss] is a utility-first CSS framework aimed at rapid UI development.

PayPal released an open source, cross-domain JavaScript suite [medium/bluepnume].

How to build a lazy-load router with Vue.js [vuejsdevelopers].

ReasonReact now has reducers! [reasonml.github]

And some things that would’ve been good to know before diving into React[engineering.opsgenie].

Playing Polytics

Back-end/programming

npm-run-all [github/mysticatea] is a CLI tool to run multiple npm scripts in parallel or sequentially.

The state of machine learning and data science in 2017 [kaggle].

Developing VR or AR apps? Poly [poly.google] is a place to find some free objects to add to your app.

X Marks the Spot

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

Senior developer [Barrel], New York City.
Full-stack software engineer [Sana Benefits], remote.
Python developer [X-Team], 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].

Page Turner

Design/UX/product

The questions UX designers should be asking at every stage of their process [uxdesign].

Speaking of questions: answer some, for the 2017 Design Census! [designcensus] To not answer would be censusless. I’ll get my coat.

Figma now has Pages, which you can use to separate your projects’ brainstorms, iterations and final designs into separate documents [blog.figma].

Peristyle [typography] is a new font family aimed at making condensed, high-contrast sans serif typography cool again.

Real Big Phish

News/business

If you use Tor on a Mac or Linux, update the stable version of the browser, cos it fixes a flaw that leaked users’ real IP addresses [arstechnica]. Generally the opposite of what people using Tor were going for.

Also, more than a million people got a malicious, fake version of Whatsapp for Android[motherboard.vice], so maybe check that app too? I guess the message from both of these is, “don’t download or use any apps at all”.

This is a really, really great article on how Facebook’s algorithm largely determines the fates of a lot of start-ups [nytimes].

Exactly how the phishing attack against the United States Democratic Party unfolded [apnews].

Loomio [loomio] is a service that makes decision making easier.

Token Effort

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

Travel Oregon made an online game inspired by Oregon Trail [traveloregon].

Islands [islands] is like Slack, but for college. If I know social networks invented for colleges, this used to be called The Islands, until Justin Timberlake advised against it.

A 3500-word, plain English guide to the blockchain [thenextweb].

TokenBnk [tokenbnk] is a cryptocurrency bank, that gives you cryptocurrency for holding cryptocurrency.

Finally, the most disliked programming languages, according to StackOverflow [stackoverflow]. Was, “whichever one I’m currently struggling with,” an option?

There is an edition of Versioning for Monday, the sixth day of the month of November in the year two thousand and seventeen. I've got to go and re-read that blockchain article a few dozen times before I buy a few graphics cards and really get down to business.

Tomorrow is a holiday here in Versioning HQ (Melbourne, Australia), so Versioning will be with you again on Wednesday. You see, some horses are going to be raced in an organized event, and that means I get a day off. If this blockchain thing doesn't work out, maybe I'll just bet my entire savings on the third horse from the left and see how things go. If I do go through with it - and win - I'll still provide you with a newsletter, I promise!

Results on Wednesday, fare thee well until then!