Web Design: Brainwave

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Brainwave

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Surv’s Up

Front-end

First up, the results to a survey of the JavaScript world in 2017 are in, enjoy them! [stateofjs] There are a lot of them!

A guide to CSS Layout and block formatting context [smashingmagazine].

An intro to modern asynchronous CSS loading [filamentgroup].

Design systems of CSS Grid [24ways].

Font Awesome 5 is out! [fontawesome] Thanks Mateus on Twitter for alerting me to that.

Rhyme or Reason

Mobile/back-end/programming

An intro to using ReasonML, Facebook’s new programming language for writing React apps with OCaml syntax [medium/oke-software-poland].

Bucket Stream [github/eth0izzle] is a tool for checking out interesting Amazon S3 buckets by watching certificate transparency logs.

Move Things Forward

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

React/Redux + Node/Rails full stack developer [G2i] remote.
Software engineer [Forward Financing] 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].

On Spec

Design/UX/product

Tracy converts sketches to SVG [usetracy].

The best design books that aren’t about design [kottke].

Spectral [design.google] is a new screen-first typeface from Google.

How to ship and validate new projects fast [sitepoint].

Brainwave

News/business

Bitcoin futures are now being traded! [bloomberg] In other news, I still don’t understand how Bitcoin or futures trading work.

How Reddit and others broke the internet to support net neutrality [arstechnica]. The last time someone used the phrase "break the internet", it was that picture of Kim Kardashian, just to let you know the stakes.

Scienticians injected information into the brains of monkeys [nytimes]. It was a tip about a hot new cryptocurrency, of course.

Science stuff we learned in 2017 [nytimes]. To be honest, “I” just learned this stuff today.

Twitter has threads now! [blog.twitter] It’s either gonna get a lot harder to handle, or it will stay the same.

Roadmap [onroadmap] is a project forecasting app for teams.

Black Ops

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

Google’s new photo apps - Storyboard, Selfissimo, and Scrubbies are well-named and probably great! [research.googleblog].

Black Out [itunes.apple] is an app for blacking sensitive info/images out of your pictures.

SETI are going to start listening in to the “piece of galactic driftwood” Oumuamua to see whether it’s an alien warship or whatever [scientificamerican]. It definitely is, we’re definitely doomed. Just one man’s opinion.

There is an edition of Versioning for a Wednesday. I'll be back with more tomorrow, right after I finish prepping for the collapse of Bitcoin and the invasion of Oumuamua-based aliens. Either/or, at this point.

And I'll send you another one tomorrow. Or inject it into your brain, whatever's more convenient for you!