Call, Raise or Fold

No Images? Click here ​Clean up your inbox today (& keep it that way forever) with SaneBox SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what's important, removing spam & junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and get an exclusive $25 credit as a new user!       Focus In Front-end First up, an overview of tools to check a site’s accessibility [css-tricks]. 6 ways to clear cache in the browser [calendar.perplanet], handy if you accidentally ship a bad release of a front-end asset with a long cache lifetime. Ways to keep a parent element visible while child :focus [css-tricks]. Oh, and an 🚨 actual good deal alert 🚨 here for you: $29 for access to all the SitePoint books and courses you need to solidify your status as a front-end genius [sitepoint], including good coverage of CSS, ES6, React, Angular 2, Bootstrap 4, responsive web design and more! There’s a lot there and you’ll save $435, a large and oddly-specific amount. Deal ends today!   Easy as A, B, C,+,+ Mobile/back-end/programming Suggestion: speed up your Node app with native C++ addons [medium/the-node-js-collection]. Vaxic [github/ethanent] is an ultra-light, Node web framework. Idea: learned index structures for data management systems [arxiv]. Expo [expo] is a toolchain built around React Native to help you build native iOS and Android apps using JavaScript, and React. Truffle Suite [truffleframework] is an Ethereum Swiss Army Knife.   Zappy-Go-Lucky Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs) Infrastructure engineer [Zapier] remote.  Senior interface designer [Mercury New Media] 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].   Call, Raise or Fold Design/UX/product Facebook released Origami, Sketch and Photoshop templates of iOS 11 GUI elements for you to use for your designs [facebook.design]. Speaking of, Elements [sketchapp] is a free iOS UI kit for Sketch, provided by…. Sketch. These logos are blurry, and your job is to identify them [jim-nielsen]. I’m pretty good at this, because I’m very short-sighted and this the default view I have. An open source selection of design principles [principles.design], originally used by companies like Airbnb and people like Tim Berners-Lee. Design Lab has a free, 7-day email course on Sketch [trydesignlab].   Not Neutrality News/business Sooooo yeah, the United States Federal Communications Commission scrapped Obama-era net neutrality rules [nytimes]. This is fine. Hackers hijacked multiple Starbucks locations to mine cryptocurrency with customers’ laptops [motherboard.vice]. Google’s summary of The Year in Search [trends.google], people liked some things a lot, and hate-searched a lot of other things. How to find a niche in the thriving WordPress ecosystem [sitepoint].   Macs-imum Power! Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) John Gruber’s take on the amazingly overpowered and eye-wateringly-expensive iMac Pro [daringfireball]. They’re aimed at people who want to do more than just Spotify and link-finding, so I will save my $12,000, thank you very much. Also, I don’t have $12,000 to spend on anything fun. Resilient Web Design [resilientwebdesign], to quote from the intro: “[combines] the most resilient ideas from the history of web design into an approach for building the websites of the future.” Finally, this came way too late for me, but it’s worth reading as we get into the business-end of holiday season and the work Christmas parties begin: have two drinks at a party [lifehacker].         There is Versioning for another week, how did that happen? I'll have more for you next week, which will be the last week of regular Versioning programming in 2017. We have a lot planned for 2018, which I'll get into soon-ish! But in the meantime, I just have a lot planned for my weekend. Well, one thing: I'm seeing Star Wars! I'm very excited, I only learned this morning that Benecio del Toro is in it! Also, Mark Hamill! What a development! Back Monday, fully aware of what a porg is. I hope your weekend is as successful. Curated by Adam. Wait, why am I here, what is this?   You're receiving this email because you've signed up for Versioning, SitePoint's daily email for web developers. Manage your preferences to stop receiving Versioning, or unsubscribe from all SitePoint emails below.   Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe