Web Design: Xzibit

Friday, November 17, 2017

Xzibit

Check It Out

Front-end

First up, remember that front-end checklist I mentioned last week? It’s now an app, which you can check off as you build your site, like a proper checklist [frontendchecklist]. Amazing. Shout out to creator David Dias, that’s a very, very good effort.

VueJS Expo [vuejsexpo] is a place to showcase the best in Vue.

How to create a Vuex undo/redo plugin for VueJS [vuejsdevelopers].

Is Angular Flex with Angular Material better than Bootstrap for a responsive layout? [theinfogrid].

Turn of Events

Back-end/programming

How Sentry handles 20 billion events per month (while preparing to handle twice that) [stackshare]. I recently handled one event, my wedding, and that was hard enough!

An extensive list of Node best-practices [github/i0natan].

And an investigation of the boundaries of Xen-based VM performance - with a minimal unikernel image you’re looking at a boot time of 4ms [blog.acolyer]. We all understand that, right?

Xzibit

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

JavaScript developer [X-Team], remote.
React developer [X-Team], 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].

Sow the Seeds

Design/UX/product

Plant [plantapp] offers version control for designers.

Avataaars [avataaars] is a Sketch library for creating avatars.

What (developers and) designers need to know about Android color management [medium/google-design].

The old “use a pen for note-taking” argument, but actually pretty well-made [medium/design-voices]. I used to be a journalist, so I use shorthand, so no-one, including me, can read my notes.

And you may ask yourself, well… how did I get here?

News/business

You know how everyone’s a little bit sick of hearing about how Russian Twitter bots influenced the US election? Well, apparently they also influenced Brexit [fortune].

Tesla’s doing a truck [tesla]. It’s silver and it looks cool, so seems about right for the company/future.

Chia is a new cryptocurrency that’s more friendly on the planet, built by Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent [techcrunch].

AI will soon be your coworker, will be absolutely terrible about cleaning up after itself in the work kitchen [wired].

Aaaaaand we’ve got the first - of what I assume will be many - religions built to worship AI [wired].

Does remote work increase imposter syndrome? [blog.trello]. Sure, why not?

Anil Dash has released a very interesting product, Manuscript [manuscript], which looks like a pretty great tool to manage the production of pretty great software.

Written in the Stars

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

Visit this site for a reminder of what every browser knows about you [webkay.robinlinus].

A check-in with Second Life: 600,000 people still play regularly [theatlantic].

The 50 best superhero movies, ranked [superheroes.theringer]. How is The Mask not on this list?!

Constellation [distractionware] is a very cool thing that I can’t describe but which you should open and enjoy.

Finally, two robot videos, courtesy of my friend Dee, an actual genius who sent me these while she was supposed to be working. If Dee’s boss is reading this, I reckon they probably tie into her work in some way neither of us understand:

Check out how fancy the Atlas robot is these days [youtube].

Why two-legged robots are actually kinda great [wired].

That's Versioning for ya, for another week! I do hope you have a good weekend, and that you spend it watching as many of those superhero films as you can manage, ideally 50.

I'll be back with more on Monday, probably including a passioned defence of The Dark Knight Rises, centered entirely on Bane's voice.

See you then!