Web Design: Await On Me

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Await On Me

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Await On Me

Front-end

First up, Wes Bos explains async/await [youtube/dotconferences].

Indefatigable SitePoint alum Louis Lazaris shares his favorite front-end tool finds of 2017 [css-tricks].

A guide to understanding the range input, and making your sliders more consistently slidey [css-tricks].

The complete set of Instagram image filters in pure CSS [github/picturepan2].

And 5 design fears that can be put to one side thanks to CSS Grid [css-tricks].

Parse the Salt

Mobile/back-end/programming

How to become a better Node developer in 2018 [nemethgergely].

A list of fun apps to build [medium.freecodecamp].

RSParser [github/brentsimmons] is a nice bit of Objective-C/Swift/HTML code for parsing RSS, Atom, JSON, OPML and HTML.

You can now just program on a quantum computer, right now, for free [quantumexperience]. I guess that is a bit futuristic, which is timely given we’re now living in 2018.

A counterpoint to the idea you should never let a user, when failing to login, know whether the username or password was incorrect, as that’ll give the game away to a hacker [hackernoon]. The author is a bit sweary, but does have a good point!

Odd Jobs

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

UI/UX designer [Britecore] remote.
Senior front-end developer [Oddball] 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].

Heart Skips a Beat

Design/UX/product

How skip-ink underlines improve text readability for dyslexic users [medium/@iamhiwelo].

5 A/B testing tools for making data-driven design decisions [sitepoint].

Advice for a junior designer [blog.prototypr].

On Autopilot

News/business

The Iranian government is blocking the internet to try to shut down anti-government protests [motherboard.vice]. 2018 appears to be picking up right where 2017 left off, bleak/scary news-wise.

New research suggests some ad targeters are now pulling data from browsers’ built-in password managers [theverge].

New year, new Apple vulnerability. You know how you can link your Mac and phone to send SMS messages? And you can also just ask Siri to send them too? Yeah, that’s a problem [medium/@khaost].

A longread on Estonia, the digital republic [newyorker].

And it turns out there are people who aren’t nervous about robots taking over their jobs - the Swedes [nytimes].

Y Combinator’s B2B buying guide [ycb2bguide].

How to plan your ideal year [medium/personal-growth]. Either read this now, or in exactly a year’s time.

Black Hat

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

If you used your holiday to jump into the blockchain/cryptocurrency world, Blockfolio [blockfolio] is a mobile app to manage your portfolio.

Apple’s open sourcing the code for the Lisa [bbc].

An ingenious way to hack iOS trivia game HQ [hackernoon] using machine vision and a bit of Python.

Finally, Reroute Twitter [github/schukin] is an iOS app (that you can set up) that looks like Twitter, but opens a Kindle book instead. If your feed is too bleak and depressing this will help, unless you’re reading Sylvia Plath, or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, or whatever.

Hi there! It's 2018!? I think I speak for everyone when I say: "how did this happen? Who approved this? Why wasn't I consulted?"

Give it a few days and we'll get over the shock, I'm sure.

Whatever the calendar says, I'm pleased to be with you providing you with top notch links and ~content~ that'll help you clear your head and expand your skillset.

I'll be back with more tomorrow, just as soon as my dual-citizenship for Estonia and Sweden is confirmed. See ya then, fellow future-dweller!