Web Design: What's the Diff?

Thursday, November 23, 2017

What's the Diff?

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Front-end

First up, a guide to faster Angular apps [blog.mgechev].

And an intro to happier HTML5 form validation [daverupert].

react-native-resource-saving-container [github/softwaremansion] releases resources for view not attached to the screen, saving memory.

React Native Image Cache HOC [github/billmalarky] adds advanced caching functionality to react native image components.

DéjàVu [blog.acolyer] is a map of code duplicates on GitHub.

GitHub now has team discussions [github/blog].

What’s the Diff?

Back-end/programming

50 useful Docker tools [caylent].

And a 51st: container-diff [github/googlecloudplatform] will diff your Docker containers!

SLING [github/google] is a natural language frame semantics parser.

SQL Operations Studio [github/microsoft] is a data management tool for working with all the SQL tools, like SQL Server and Azure SQL DB, for Windows and macOS

Hop to it

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

Front-end developer [Much Better Adventures], remote.
Lead full-stack developer [Carhopper], 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].

Easy as Pie

Design/UX/product

An intro to prototyping tool ProtoPie [sitepoint].

How airplanes and ashtrays relate to design compromises [csswizardry].

A pocket guide to creativity [uxplanet].

How Booking.com adapted to the notch [booking.design].

A review of Kickstarter’s brutal(ist) new logo and identity [underconsideration].

Bye ByeOS

News/business

Women-only co-working spaces are definitely a thing, with one club raising a cool US $32 million [forbes].

A look at who handles the last mile of Amazon order deliveries [gizmodo]. Turns out it’s kinda complicated and a little bleak!

Social media: a DoS attack on your free-will [nautil.us].

Nashville has had it up to here with Airbnb [theringer].

Holiday read: scienticians found a hidden supercluster of thousands of galaxies that help explain the “peculiar movement” of our own [quantamagazine].

The PC BIOS is going bye-bye, as Intel looks at moving to pure UEFI [arstechnica].

An intro to the Pac-Man Rule at conferences [ericholscher].

Flatland

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

Hairnah [hairnah], a game where you’re job is to help a black woman stop people from touching her hair all the time.

The best Chrome extensions in one place [bestofchrome].

Code Review, the play! [pyvideo] Somewhere Lin-Manuel Miranda is furiously writing rhymes for the hip-hop musical version of this.

A man is going to launch himself in a homemade, steam-powered rocket (remember all those rockets they built during the industrial revolution?) in an effort to prove what Kyrie Irving and other scientific minds have known for years, the earth is flat [sciencealert]. Wake up, sheeple.

I can summarize this article in four words: “National Public Toilet Cloud.” [qz]. Beautiful

Finally, just because they’re nice: these photos from storm chasing in Montana [ryanwunsch].

Americans - happy thanksgiving! I am thankful for all of you, among other things.

So I'm in Melbourne, Australia, but I've seen enough TV to know almost exactly how this will go down for you: the overeating, the embarrassing or slightly concerning relatives, watching the football (am I saying that right?) and then collapsing at the end from exhaustion and drunkenness. You know, that does sound fairly familiar. Like, way too familiar actually. Hmm, enjoy?

On our end, we've been working away on a very decent SitePoint Black Friday spectacularrrr! You'll hear about that very, very soon, so be ready to be excited, but in the meantime enjoy your family/eating/drunkenness/sleep!

Non-Americans: you're also great and I'm also thankful for you and you should also over-eat and see your family! Back tomorrow!