Web Design: #800

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Small Fortune

Front-end

First up, 12 interactive screencasts for learning Flexbox [scrimba].

Smaller [25] is an HTML, CSS and JavaScript compressor for OS X.

A guide to avoiding the traps in developing with React and HTML [blog.theodo].

10 coding style tips that’ll help you write readable React code [medium.freecodecamp].

Cuttlebelle [cuttlebelle] is a static site generator using React for layouts and separates content from code.

A repo aiming to collate study plans for programmers who want to learn something new [github/ximet]. It’s in an early stage right now, with the beginning of a plan for learning React and React Native.

An intro to Wix Code [sitepoint].

All Smiles

Mobile/back-end/programming

A collective list of public APIs for development [github/toddmotto].

A pain-free guide to setting up a Node development environment [medium/@kashgoudarzi].

SmileToUnlock [github/rsrbk] is a Swift library you can add to your app that uses the iPhone X’s face tracking abilities to make users smile before they open your app. If you want them to smile once the app’s open, that’s all on you I’m afraid.

A guide to migrating a MySQL database to NoSQL [pgdba].

Remember Gary Bernhardt’s awesome “Wat?” talk, where he illustrated the weird inconsistencies with Ruby and JavaScript? Here’s why JavaScript’s type system is weird [medium/dailyjs].

Paper Programs [paperprograms] is an ambitious project letting you program using pen and paper.

There’s a big update to Parcel - a fast, zero-config web app bundler [medium/@devongovett] - brings WebAssembly support, Rust support, and is quite a bit faster.

A Next.js crash course [youtube/traversymedia].

A complete guide to building a serverless app [medium/google-developer-experts].

Future Shock

Design/UX/product

The UX of AI [design.google].

Oh, and a look at the UX of Lootboxes [blog.prototypr].

Typeset in the Future [typesetinthefuture] is an upcoming book that’ll examine the typography of classic sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and Alien.

A new tab Chrome extension that’ll show you inspiring UX quotes in every new tab [chrome.google].

Fake Friends

News/business

Woah: A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange lost the equivalent of about US $500 million [motherboard.vice].

An Android botnet - DressCode - is still running 16 months after it first came to light [arstechnica].

The latest site to display dodgy, CPU-draining, cryptocurrency-mining ads? YouTube [arstechnica].

Intel says there will be hardware fixes for Spectre and Meltdown this year [arstechnica].

The New York Times has a stunner of a story about the thriving fake follower industry [nytimes].

Nick Bilton does a good background, inevitable article on the “downfall” of Facebook [vanityfair]. Don’t worry, the story uses the “move fast and break things” quote right up top.

Didn’t squeeze this in last week: Steve Yegge has left Google, he explains why here [medium/@steve.yegge].

Immortal myths about online abuse [medium/humane-tech].

Mailbutler [mailbutler] helps email make sense, by providing context, creating to-do lists, and letting you write notes for later.

7 morning routines, reviewed [medium/the-slow-up].

Up in Flames

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

A round-up of first impressions of Apple’s HomePod [macstories]. Sounds good!

Iris [iristech] is an eye-saving app for pretty much every platform - including Linux and Chrome, weirdly - it’ll change the screen brightness according to time of day and ambient light.

I found this a fascinating weekend read: when we exercise, distant parts of the body communicate with each other [nytimes].

JSNES [jsnes] is a JavaScript NES emulator.

Speaking of Nintendo games, this review of Celeste this review of Nintendo Switch game Celeste makes me very excited to get the game [gamespot].

Finally, Elon Musk’s Boring Company is apparently delivering on a promise to ship a Boring Company flamethrower if 50,000 BC hats were sold [boringcompany]. It’s US $500, and is useful if you need to set things on fire. It’s hard not to see Elon Musk as a character in piece of performance art.

When we started Versioning in 2014, I would've been happy if we got up to 80 editions, and that at least 80 people enjoyed it. Today's edition is number 800, going out to 49,000ish (amazing) people. Which is just definitely crazy, really, isn't it?

Thank you to all of you for subscribing, opening, clicking, replying and being very awesome web folk. Versioning is poised to make a transition to a new, paid model on Thursday, and I hope at least 8 of you come along! I'll be going into the transition in more detail over the week, but today I'll just finish by repeating: thanks!

Actually, one more thing: I promise that if we get to 50,000 subscribers in the new model, I'll release a Versioning flamethrower.

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