Web Design: That'll Learn Ya

Monday, November 13, 2017

That'll Learn Ya

Spirited Away

Front-end

First up, legends Todd Motto and Jurgen Van de Moere share their 12 productivity tips for Webstorm and Angular [sitepoint].

Spirit [spiritapp] is a tool for easily animating objects on the web.

Or, a guide to animating clipped shapes with SVG and animejs [varun].

FYI, Grid areas and the elements that occupy them aren’t necessarily the same size [css-tricks].

And what do you call it when you create an inline SVG that features a viewBox but lacks height or width attributes? Introducing the Fatwigoo [otsukare], via CSS Tricks.

That’ll Learn Ya

Back-end/programming

How Redux can make you a better developer [medium.cobeisfresh].

The 10 best machine learning algorithms for beginners [kdnuggets].

A nice piece on adapting JavaScript abstractions over time [css-tricks].

The history of - and a bit of a check-in on - Yarn, the alternative JavaScript package manager [blog.algolia].

7 open source test automation frameworks [sitepoint].

Greased Lightning

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

Infrastructure and operations engineer: databases [Fog Creek], remote.
Product engineering team manager [Zapier], remote.

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This is 140

Design/UX/product

How Twitter’s design team handled the design challenges of internationalizing the service’s (old) character limit [medium/twitter-design-research].

Former Disney and Apple designers invented a brand new design process [usejournal].

How the degree of detail in design deliverables relates to presentation skills [uxdesign].

Grin and Bear It

News/business

Russian hacking team Fancy Bear have a new attack using macro-less Word files [arstechnica].

Contrary to some reporting, when you send Facebook your nudes to try to avoid being the victim of revenge porn, they won’t blur the nudes before a human reviews them [motherboard.vice]. So to avoid the risk of strangers seeing naked photos of you, you’ll have to send strangers naked photos. That makes sense.

Here's a New York Times Magazine longread - What happens when 100% of cars are automated? [nytimes]

(It’s the NYT Magazine’s tech and design issue, hence the AI and tech stuff.)

Speaking of AI (because we always are): Google’s AI genius has a new trick for neural networks, and it’s working pretty well! [wired].

And Faqbot [faqbot] offers autonomous customer engagement.

Station [getstation] is a work dashboard that’ll combine all your apps and services.

And SpeechBoard [speechboard] lets you edit podcasts by editing transcripts, which is extremely fancy.

Fast Talking

Everything else (today, mostly AI)

These people listen to podcasts at crazy fast speeds - like 2x at a minimum [buzzfeed]. I usually hover around 1.25x, and even at that speed I feel like a monster.

WeSideTrip [wesidetrip] is a curated directory of awesome stuff to do while travelling.

Initab [chrome.google] is a new tab Chrome extension that’ll have everything a developer could need, with integrations with GitHub, Stack Overflow, Reddit.

Finally, an important question: does the Twitter logo, flipped upside down, look like Sonic the Hedgehog? [motherboard.vice].

There ya go, Monday's newsletter, all done and dusted. I actually decided I would be back tomorrow, with some more links to enjoy. I actually may spend the evening flipping logos to see which video game characters they vaguely resemble. I guess the McDonald's logo upside down is a W, so you could argue that's Wario-adjacent? I'll work on it. Back tomorrow!