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No Images? Click here Want to create your logo in a minute? Logaster is a quick and easy online tool that lets you generate different elements of your corporate identity, including logo, business cards, letterheads, favicons and envelopes. Before you can create a favicon or business card, you will first need a logo, but don’t worry, it’s very easy. The process is simple, you choose the icon, font, elements positioning and colors. After the logo is created, the service will generate a great number of beautiful and ready to use business cards, favicons, letterheads and envelopes based on your logo. You can then choose and save your design. Logaster is an online service for creating logos and corporate identity elements. There is no need to contact a designer and describe what logo you want. Just spend few minutes and create it yourself! Try it today and get 15% off using the code: LOG15SP       Out of the Box Front-end First up, how React and Vue measure up against each other [javascriptreport]. PixiJS [pixijs] is a web rendering library that’s basically an easier alternative to WebGL. A guide to getting stuck in to CSS Custom Properties [24ways]. An intro to CSS Flexible Box Layout [developer.mozilla]. How to use SVG to create a duotone image effect [css-tricks]. A very thorough recap of everything that happened in front-end in 2017 [blog.logrocket]. Thanks to BrianNeville-O’Neill on the Twitters for sending that through! A new SitePoint book for ya to feast your eyes and brain on: Front-end Performance [sitepoint].   History Repeating Itself Mobile/back-end/programming A blockchain-based Redux clone in 105 lines of code [swizec]. See, I would’ve gone for 103, but sure! And, hey, another great new SitePoint book: back-end performance [sitepoint].   At Its Peak Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs) Operations engineer, devops [Peak Games] remote.  Lead software engineer [InVision] 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].   Fine-Tune Design/UX/product A nice piece on managing to continue learning on a team in which you’re the only designer/UXer [medium/the-year-of-the-looking-glass]. How to think about a UX revamp in an enterprise app [sitepoint]. A little bit of # inspo for you: NinjaTune’s 2017 review [ninjatune]. Also, the music is very good.   It All Ads Up News/business On February 15, Chrome will start blocking “non-compliant” ads on all sites [venturebeat]. Facebook’s Newsfeed algorithm will now penalize “engagement bait” posts [arstechnica]. Like if you agree this stuff has to stop! Facebook will now tag you if someone puts a photo of you on the social network, even if they don’t tag you [buzzfeed]. Facial recognition, innit. There are already runaway, monomaniacal, superintelligent “artificial intelligences” that operate with a scorched-earth policy in pursuit of their goal. They’re called “start-ups” [buzzfeed]. With the previous link a good example: yep, tech no longer gets breathless, uniformly positive coverage [wired]. WhatsApp has a month to stop sharing data with Facebook [bloomberg]. In other news, WhatsApp was sharing data with Facebook - a thing I thought was definitely not happening. Cryptocurrency mining Android malware is so aggressive it can physically harm phones [arstechnica].   A Cat and Mouse Game Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) These headphones will work in extremely cold temperatures, look to be very comfortable [indiegogo]. Erase All Kittens [kickstarter] is a game that’ll teach and inspire girls to code. The 50 best games of the year, according to Polygon [polygon]. Realised I’ve played one, which is the number one game, so I guess I kinda nailed it? Finally, sooooo many people are still using “password” and “123456” as their password [motherboard.vice]. Do this count lazy devs testing their infrastructure? No? Oh dear.         There you have it, a Wednesday Versioning for ya. I'll be back with more tomorrow, but we're approaching the end of the week, and therefore the end of regular Versioning editions for 2017! What a time! Back tomorrow, but in the meantime I'll be hurriedly changing all my passwords from "pasdword" (I made hundreds of typos while aiming for t 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