Web Design: Socket to Me

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Socket to Me

This Must Be The Place

Front-end

First up, a guide to creating a loading placeholder with Sass [leejamesrobinson].

A look at producing robust React user interfaces with finite state machines [css-tricks].

How GitLab uses Vue [about.gitlab].

Socket to Me

Back-end/programming

Apparently Java is one of the most energy efficient programming languages, and Python is pretty inefficient, energy-wise [jaxenter].

Why you don’t need Socket.IO [codeburst].

An intro to a Web Tooling Benchmark Suite [v8project].

How to do performance testing and optimization with Python and Django [toptal].

A Tribe Called Quest

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

Senior dev ops engineer [Mozilla], remote or North American offices.
Product designer [Modern Tribe], 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].

Brand New

Design/UX/product

Real examples of really good UX [reallygoodux].

Everything you need to remember when designing a website header [process].

How and why Adobe’s brand evolved [blog.prototypr].

Killer Bez

News/business

Hackers say they broke the iPhone X’s FaceID with a $150 mask [arstechnica].

Everything you need to know about Bitcoin Gold, the latest fork of the cryptocurrency [arstechnica].

Won the streaming wars already, Disney has [theverge].

What an unfocused life looks like [thesweetsetup].

Jeff Bezos’ guide to life [techcrunch].

Kiss the Ring

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

These twins are conjoined at the head, meaning they share some senses and maybe some thoughts [cbc].

Amazon’s going to run a multi-season Lord of the Rings prequel TV series [arstechnica]. And by “prequel” I mean, “I have no idea what this will be about but it will be in the LOTR universe.”

Finally, Explain Me Please [explainmeplease] is a site providing explanations of complex things - blockchain, CRISPR, AI, the Yemen Civil War - at a level even a ninth grader could understand. How do I know that? BECAUSE IT WAS BUILT AND IS MAINTAINED BY A NINTH GRADER. Wow.

There's Versioning for ya. I've got a plan to deliver another edition tomorrow, I hope that fits in with your schedule?

Meanwhile, I'm going to submit many requests for explanations of complex topics. Really difficult stuff like: how the economy works, what the main causes of WW1 were, why the sky is blue, how birds know to fly South for the winter... the list goes on.

I'll let you know how I get on!