Web Design: Window Shopping

Friday, November 3, 2017

Window Shopping

Force Push

Front-end

First up, a Star Wars Kylo Ren CSS page preloader [tympanus].

Then, a guide to writing a JavaScript-free todo app [mattzeunert].

FYI, CSS custom properties are better than the CSS attr() function [css-tricks].

How to structure components in React [reallifeprogramming].

Oh yeah, we’ve still got an 🚨 actual good deal alert 🚨 running. It's The Complete React Web Developer Course [completereactcourse] and it’s very, very good. If you buy it through that special link you’ll get a shocking 90% off, making it just $10. I think you should probably do it!

Window Shopping

Back-end/programming

How to deploy Node apps - Heroku vs Now.sh [sitepoint].

Microsoft’s got a plan to bring PWAs to Windows 10 [thurrott].

And a look at Expo, used to speed up VR prototyping [medium/shopify-vr].

X Gon’ Give It to Ya

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

PHP developer [X-Team], remote
Senior full-stack engineer [Logikcull], remote or San Francisco.

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].

Left to Your Own Devices

Design/UX/product

Behind the scenes of a redesign of Laravel.io [medium/refactoring-ui].

Images and Sketch files of popular devices, thanks to Facebook [facebook.design].

And Airbnb has an AI that can turn sketches into code [thenextweb].

Pyramid Scheme

News/business

A Twitter employee, on their last day at the company, just went ahead and deactivated President Trump’s account [bloomberg]. Does that count as a mic drop, or a blaze of glory, or treason?

Some Pixel 2 XL units are shipping without an operating system [androidpolice]. Minimalist.

Google Docs is randomly flagging files for violating its terms of service [motherboard.vice]. This never happened with Clippy!

Facebook’s making it harder for another Facebook to emerge [wired]. I’m optimistic, partly because I’m currently reading Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath book, so I like the chances of any underdog right now.

Today in “wait, what?”: cosmic rays unearthed a mysterious void in the great pyramid [arstechnica]. I’ve played enough videogames to know an important quest when I see it.

Earn [earn] is a service that’ll give you money if you answer messages and complete tasks. So…. it’s a job, then?

Stay Gold

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

Some new sci-fi and fantasy books to help you survive this holiday season [arstechnica].

Dan emailed with this tool his start-up, Dittach, has been working on - a Gmail app that allows you to search for attachments [chrome.google]. Thanks Dan!

These neural-network-generated "celebrity" faces aren’t real, but they sure look real [youtube/nvidia]. Get ready for a whole lot more of these.

Speaking of which, one of Japan’s biggest pop stars is not a real person [bloomberg].

And finally, a weekend read, for no particular reason: an oral history of Jeff Goldblum [gq]. He’s even better than you thought he was.

There's a wrap for this week! I'm gonna spend the weekend building a VR app where you just hang out with Jeff Goldblum for a while. I think it's a concept that's got some potential. And if not Goldblum, some neural-network-generated person that look kinda similar to him.

Anyway, I'll do that, then we'll meet here again on Monday, OK? Deal!