Stars in Their Eyes

No Images? Click here FreshBooks Helps You With the Boring Stuff, So You Can Get Back to Work! FreshBooks is a ridiculously easy to use cloud accounting platform that makes running your small business easy, fast and secure. Spend less time on accounting and more time doing the work you love.  FreshBooks can help you with:  Easy invoicing – wow clients with professional looking invoices  Expenses tracking – say goodbye to your shoebox of receipts  Time tracking – log your hours and then automatically import them into an invoice  Payments – get paid faster by accepting credit cards online via FreshBooks  Reporting – powerful enough for your accountant to love Try FreshBooks now for free.     Stars in Their Eyes Front-end First up, The Modern JavaScript Tutorial [javascript.info] gets you up-to-speed with how JavaScript is done these days. A front-end developer’s guide to GraphQL [css-tricks]. Chota [jenil.github] is a 3kb CSS framework that seems small and useful. This CodePen, The Starry Night in particles, is a work of art [codepen/murasaki].   A Milli Back-end/programming How Visual Studio App Center can automate your CI and CD processes [sitepoint]. mlhelper [github/laoqiren] is a collection of algorithms and utilities for machine learning in JavaScript. An intro to ReasonML, Facebook’s new programming language [2ality].   Opt In Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs) Software engineer [Hashicorp] remote.  Full-stack software developer [Optimale], remote in the EU. 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].   A Bit Sketchy Design/UX/product A look at designed redundancies, UX patterns that reduce user frustration by letting users accomplish the same thing in multiple ways [uxdesign]. 10 design predictions for 2018 [medium/thinking-design]. Why you should sketch your UX [uxplanet]. Like, with a pen, not using Sketch.   Baby Talk News/business Facebook’s launching a version of Messenger for kids [techcrunch] and I honestly can’t think of anything more terrifying. Spotify and Tencent are swapping stock. Awww, that's nice! They're obviously past the stage where you share a Netflix login, borrow books and pick up coffee for each other[forbes]. Lovely. How an Israeli startup is bringing India’s small businesses online [qz]. Don’t treat employees the way you want to be treated [m.signalvnoise]. Work out how they want to be treated, then do that. A raise, I guess? Some guiding principles for working better, not more [blog.prototypr].   Wake Up Call Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) Some cool, quick mini-fiction up-top: An experimental short story in tweets [twitter]. 280 characters, to be fair, but still well worth the read! And this is a devastating one-minute short film [vimeo]. After 37 years, Voyager 1 has woken up and fired its thrusters [nasa]. Good morning, little buddy! Speaking of sending stuff to space: Elon Musk is going to put his Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity on the new Space X Falcon Heavy, and send it up to Mars [theverge]. Finally, Neil Young just released his entire catalog online! In high quality! For free! [neilyoungarchives]         There ya go, another Versioning! I wish I could have some of Voyager 1's get-up-and-go attitude, I guess it had more of a chance for some decent REM sleep. I'll have some more for you tomorrow, by which time I'm sure Elon will have made some new extravagant promise. And my extravagant promise? I'll have another edition of Versioning to you this time tomorrow. See ya then! 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