Web Design: Take Out the Trash

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Take Out the Trash

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Whole Lottie Love

Front-end

First up, how to upgrade your projects using CSS selector and custom attributes [sitepoint].

How to support browsers that don’t have CSS Grid [smashingmagazine].

How to fake your way through some cool CSS Grid effects [alistapart].

SkeletonView [github/juanpe] is a nice way to show users that something is happening during async processes.

Lottie [github/airbnb] is a library for web and iOS that renders AfterEffects animations to display on mobile.

Take Out the Trash

Back-end/programming

A guide to automating continuous integration and deployment, so you can get on with coding [sitepoint].

And a guide to optimizing Docker-based CI runners with shared package caches [sitepoint].

An example of a polyglot microservice app [github/elgris].

Node Prune [github/tj] is a tool that’ll remove unnecessary files from ./node modules - markdown, typescript source files, stuff like that.

And npm graveyard [github/npm-graveyard] is a place to put unwanted, unloved, unmaintained npm packages. It’s sort of a “one developer’s trash is another developer’s treasure” kind of thing.

Automattic for the People

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

Code wrangler [Automattic], remote.
Full-stack developer [Hotjar], remote (Europe).

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].

Tip the Scale

Design/UX/product

Raelene on the Twitters sent this through “How we rebuilt Robot Ninja” - a look at the process and methodology used to come up with a new product [robotninja]. Worth pointing out, she promised beer in return for sharing - take note, contributors!

How to make design scale - in terms of team size and methodology, at least [medium/@hellostanley].

A great list of inclusive design considerations [github/heydon].

An interesting perspective: what the iPhone X’s FaceID means for accessibility [stevensblog].

Keep it in Neutral

News/business

Phew, a lot bleak news today. Let’s blow through that before getting to something, anything else:

Net neutrality looks to be done, everyone [arstechnica]. I’m looking forward to choosing the ISP with the best Netflix speeds! Which will probably also be the one that doesn’t let you use Hulu.

Also, Uber got hacked, exposing the data of 57 million people! [bloomberg]. Also, that happened a year ago!

Oh, wait, another bleak one: Chinese students are claiming they worked illegal overtime when making the iPhone X [arstechnica].

C'mon, there’s more bleak news? Yeah, Android devices (Google) always collect user info even when you don’t use any apps, explicitly tell them not to and remove your SIM card [qz].

Tencent is Asia’s first company to be valued at more than US $500 billion [cnbc]. FYI 500 billion dollars divided by ten cents is five trillion FYI.

The next generation of jobs won’t be professions, they’ll be problems and challenges [bbc]. Problem number one: AI will probably do all the jobs.

If you want to grow talent, don’t move fast and break things, move slowly and fix them [blog.usejournal].

Can’t See the Forest for the Tree

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

Forest [forestapp] is an app that’ll help you focus on being productive by allowing you to plant a virtual tree. “That doesn’t sound very effective,” you may say, wrongly. Because if you leave the app to do something else distracting? The. Tree. Dies.

The eight morning habits of the least-successful people [thecooperreview].

Finally, bot time:

This bot makes up Star Trek episode titles [kottke].

And this bot will tell you your rapper name [twitter/rapnamebot]. Me? Lil Spruce Moose

There's Wednesday, there's Versioning, what a time to be alive! I'll be back tomorrow, and I know I will because if I don't finish Versioning a tree will die. This is an awful responsibility. Is this like being a parent? There are good parts too though, right?

Back tomorrow, for sure!