Web Design: Admiring the Vue

Friday, December 1, 2017

Admiring the Vue

Front-end

First up, a guide to getting started with performant JavaScript [sitepoint].

An overview of various web frameworks [sitepen].

A bleeding-edge Vue template, focused on code quality and dev happiness [github/wemake-services].

reactopt [github/reactopt] is a command-line tool that helps you optimize the performance of your React apps.

Starting Feb 1, Google’s bringing in a policy where AMP pages need to be comparable to the canonical page[webmasters.googleblog]. Rather than an excerpt of an article with a “read more” link that is the whole, slow-loading, badly-built page.

Strongbad

Back-end/programming

Psst… Strongbox [schibsted] is a secret manager for AWS.

How to build a tool for monitoring the performance of a Node app [blog.sqreen].

How to set up PHP-FPM tuning using ‘pm static’, allowing maximum performance [sitepoint].

GiraffQL [github/giraffQL] is an interactive tool, built with React, for exploring the capabilities of GraphQL.

How to scaffold a Node GraphQL API server [medium/@tomlagier].

Phish of the Day

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

Lead UI engineer [PhishMe], US remote.
Full-stack Ruby engineer [Doximity], San Francisco or 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].

System of a Down

Design/UX/product

Figma launched Designsystems.com, a hub for learning about design systems. Nothing up there yet, so this link explains the thinking behind and need for the site [blog.figma].

The Design Directory [thedesign.directory] is a directory of people and studios producing awesome stuff.

And an intro to Cloudinary, a tool for devs to manage videos [sitepoint].

In the Loop

News/business

“How I hacked 40 websites in 7 mins” [hackernoon]. That’s a lot/fast!

If Elon Musk gets his way, Chicago will get a Loop (like a HyperLoop, but without the whole “shooting around in a vacuum” thing [arstechnica].

Apple’s launched a Heart Study app with Stanford Medicine [macstories]. If you have an Apple Watch, you can be a part of it.

First Search [search.firstround] is a curated collection of advice for founders.

How to prevent dev burnout [7pace]. Advice also applies to any other field, really.

Dittachment Issues

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

The new update to iOS doodling app Paper looks great [medium/fiftythree-space-to-create] and has also reminded me that the app exists and is good.

AddMe [addme] has all your social accounts in one place, so you can send people there when they ask how to follow you, instead of talking to them like an idiot.

Dittach [dittach] is a tool for searching in your Gmail attachments, which is a useful thing!

Joplin [github/laurent22] is a free, open source note-taking and to-do app that’ll work on all the popular operating systems and devices.

Finally, it looks like most Redditors, like most people, don’t actually read articles they vote on [motherboard.vice]. At least, that’s what the headline to this article says, I didn’t actually read it.

There you have it, Versioning for another day and week. I'll spend the weekend doodling around, and taking copious notes. To what end? Who could say, but production of content will be happening, and that is the main thing.

Back Monday, I hope your weekend is great and you find dittaching from your work week easy! See ya Monday!