Web Design: Hire Up

Friday, December 22, 2017

Hire Up

What’s hot in development in 2018?

Calling all developers to raise their voices and speak their minds about the future of the software development industry!

Take the survey and voice your thoughts.

There's some major prizes up for grabs, including a Pixel 2 phone, an iPhone X, Raspberry Pi 3 kits and a Nintendo Switch.

It's likely to be the best developer survey you've ever taken (srs).

Origin of the Spec-ies

Front-end

A journey into the world of pure CSS images [blog.prototypr].

11 things learned reading the CSS Grid specification [medium.freecodecamp].

Object-Oriented CSS and CSS Grid, together at last [keithjgrant].

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Mobile/back-end/programming

Performance Project [sitepoint] is a new book from us, a thorough look at building and improving the performance of an image gallery blog.

Macchiato [macchiato-framework] is a way to use ClojureScript to build Node apps.

Awesome Data Science [github/bulutyazilim] is a collection of data science resources, helping you become awesome at the subject.

“Mobile first” might already be a bit outdated [blog.intercom].

Hire Up

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

Senior software developer [Therapy Management Corporation] remote.
Software engineer [Hireology] 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].

The Tables Are Turned

Design/UX/product

Why all designers should read Cyberpunk [magenta]. “It’s awesome,” would be my argument.

InVision has created a US $5 million fund aimed at design startups [invisionapp].

How to go about designing tables for reusability [uxdesign].

unDraw [blog.prototypr] is a collection of MIT-licensed illustrations for use in your projects.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real

News/business

Report: lots of companies (Amazon, Verizon, FACEBOOK ITSELF) that are advertising jobs on Facebook are excluding older workers from seeing their ads [propublica].

You can stop worrying about hackers, a new type of computer named MORPHEUS is coming and will fix everything [motherboard.vice].

Google put a “Chrome Installer App”, that just installs Chrome, on Microsoft’s special Windows App Store, then Microsoft yanked it when they realised. Proposal: this whole thing is stupid and childish and not appropriate behavior for multibillion dollar companies [arstechnica].

Google’s going to fight Android fragmentation by forcing new features into all apps in 2018 [arstechnica].

There was a report that Apple was planning on combining iPhone, iPad and Mac apps for a single user experience. Some thoughts on that idea [shapeof].

“How I went from programming with a feature phone to working for an MIT start-up” [medium.freecodecamp].

Taskful [bigbold] looks like a nice little task manager.

Viral Loops Pages [viral-loops] offers an easy way to create nice landing pages that’ll encourage referrals.

When Pusheen Comes to Shove

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

I love this a lot: a system that produces realistic looking sunlight and shadow [creativeapplications]. So long, Seasonal Affective Disorder.

What to do when Bill Gates sends you a 30LB Pusheen [redditgifts]. Important life advice.

An iced-tea company’s stock has tripled after adding the word “blockchain” to its name [arstechnica]. This is fine.

Speaking of blockchain things: Crypto Bar [github/geraldoramos] is a macOS menubar app for tracking your fav cryptocurrencies.

In time for the holidays, computer games!

Caper in the Castro, the first LGBTQ computer game that was originally released in 1989, is now on the Internet Archive for you to play [motherboard.vice].

If meditation isn’t your thing, there’s always The Sims, which is kinda the same thing [gq].

Finally, uh, the actual real Civilization VI just came out on the iPad [artechnica].

That was the final regular Versioning for the year! It got a little long-winded towards the end there, but I just didn't want to leave you without stuff to read over the break!

I'll be properly back over the first week of the absurdly futuristic year 2018. By then we'll all be living on a Moon base and have robot butlers and actual real hoverboards.

I hope you'll still have an inbox with which to read my missives and access my links, and until you don't I'll continue sending these out to brighten your day.

Thanks for a great 2017, see ya next year!