Web Design: Get Out of Jail Free Card

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Get Out of Jail Free Card

Six-Pack

Front-end

First up, how to debug CSS Grid layouts with Firefox Grid Inspector [smashingmagazine].

Hexi-Flexi-Grid [vmcreative.github] is an CSS-Grid-based SCSS component that’ll let you create a hexagonal lattice.

decss [github/kossnocorp] converts CSS modules in React/Preact components.

A collection of useful JavaScript snippets you’ll be able to understand in less than 30 seconds [github/chalarangelo].

Here’s a React puzzle for you to solve [css-tricks].

Duck for Cover

Mobile/back-end/programming

Hyperion-iOS [github/willowtreeapps] is an in-iOS-app design tool for inspecting measurements, attributes and such.

CaptainDuckDuck [github/githubsaturn] is a very easy way to set up deployment platform for your apps or databases without fiddling around with stuff like nginx and Docker.

An intro to Uploadcare, an image CDN [sitepoint].

Falsehoods programmers believe [sicpers]. About programming, that is.

Mule It Over

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

Senior full-stack engineer [Sticker Mule] remote.
Senior full-stack engineer [Groove] 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].

Head Case

Design/UX/product

The 10 best articles about psychology and UX in 2017 [medium/norbigaal].

5 myths about data-driven design [sitepoint].

Speaking of which, 3 ways to evaluate your design using data [medium/@nazlikaya].

Get Out of Jail Free Card

News/business

Uh, 1000 people own 40% of the Bitcoin market [bloomberg]. This is fine.

While it’s working out pretty well for a lot of people (at least 1000), Bitcoin isn’t really going the way everyone expected [theoutline].

Extended validation certificates can be used to mislead and scam users [arstechnica].

Google’s released an iOS 11 jailbreak tool [motherboard.vice]. But in a good way!

United States President Donald Trump has committed the United States to going back to the Moon, and then on to Mars [arstechnica].

A history of Agile software development [theatlantic].

How to build a successful team [nytimes].

Steal the Show

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

An A to Z of all things Raspberry Pi [github/wtsxdev].

There is a new optical illusion and it is very good [digg].

An intro to “broetry”, a style of post that is all over LinkedIn right now [buzzfeed], or so I’m told. It's worth reading in a "so bad it's good" way.

Google Home Max is here [blog.google]. It’s a fancy speaker that sounds good because of - you’ll never guess - artificial intelligence! AI! Is there anything it can’t do? Love. It can’t love.

Finally, Kleptocrat [kleptocrat] is a smartphone game where you, a corrupt politician, have to hide your money from investigation. I definitely have no experience with this, so it’ll be a whole new thing for me! Definitely.

That wasn't an illusion, it was Versioning for a Tuesday. I was going to write this outro in a "broetry" style, but I respect you too much to treat you that way!

I'll have some more things for you tomorrow, until then just avoid the investigators!