Web Design: Pack a Punch

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Pack a Punch

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Gif and Take

Front-end

First up, a recap of all things front-end in 2017 [levelup.gitconnected].

A list of must-watch talks on JavaScript [github/allthingssmitty].

Fish-UI [myliang.github] is a Vue.js 2.0 toolkit for the web.

FYI: you can now use mp4 files inside img tags [calendar.perfplanet] meaning the GIF (the format) isn’t really necessary anymore to create animated Gifs (the cultural artefact).

A CSS Day 2017 conference talk on the far future of CSS [vimeo].

Pack a Punch

Back-end/programming

How Kubernetes deployments work [thenewstack].

What you should when you’re doing web app penetration testing [hackercombat].

A guide to starting with webpack from scratch [netlify].

Part 1 of a guide to making sure your web app works offline [css-tricks].

Action Replay

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

Full-stack software engineer [codelathe] remote.
Senior JavaScript/Ruby developer [Replay Gaming], 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].

In the Scheme of Things

Design/UX/product

How to export Sketch files to HTML [medium/sketch-app-sources].

How to conduct useful comeptitior research [blog.prototypr].

A color scheme generator [donesmart] - give it a color, get some colors that go well with it.

Leonardo DNA Vinci

News/business

How one woman’s digital life was weaponized against her [wired]. Very intense, very worthwhile story.

On a lighter note: “How I made my shed the top-rated restaurant on TripAdvisor [vice]. Note to anyone writing stuff: that is the title to beat as far as I’m concerned.

A very interesting explanation of Netflix’s AWS set-up works [highscalability].

Recode’s top 100 tech and business people for 2017 [recode].

Scienticians recreated the Mona Lisa on a bit of DNA [motherboard.vice].

These 3D-printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics [washington].

Google’s AlphaZero destroyed Stockfish, the gold standard in Chess programs [chess] after putting just four hours into learning the game.

Hoth Under the Collar

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

Just in time for Christmas, here’s Columbia’s Echo Base range of jackets [columbia]. “Echo Base” as in the base on the ice planet Hoth, in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back! This is an amazing idea and I'm very happy about it. Depending on the weather, you may still need to jump inside a Tauntaun, but this stuff offers a pretty good start.

Also, some earrings that’ll hold your two-factor security keys [motherboard.vice].

Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available for iOS and Android [theverge].

Finally, Thomas the Stunt Engine [youtube/5MadMovieMakers].

There is Versioning for Thursday and - I'm sorry - the week. Why not tomorrow, you ask? Like the rest of us here at SitePoint HQ, I'm off for a Christmas jaunt! I'll be sipping a few drinks and doing really well at lawn bowls. Some of those details may not be quite accurate, but a man can dream.

I hope you have some fun holiday activities - work-mandated or otherwise - planned for the next few weeks. I'll be back on Monday after I've bought one of those Hoth jackets. Honestly, I kinda like Leia's the most, espec with matching pants.

Back Monday, have a lovely weekend, I will!