Web Design: Bait and Switch

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Bait and Switch

Cross-platform Data Client

TeamSQL is the new generation cross platform SQL client supporting various database engines.

Its features such as query saving, sharing, and query history makes you work more collaboratively and hassle-free with a host of extensions.

Check it out now.

nerv-center

Front-end

First up, an introduction to the new Dialog HTML element [keithjgrant].

nerv [github/nervjs] is a very fast React alternative that’s compatible with React 16.

Polythene [github/arthurclemens] is a Material Design component library for Mithril and React.

An intro to using React and Prepack [react-etc].

A ready-to-use repo for developing using Vue, Webpack, Docker and NginX [github/kodi]. Clone and away you go!

An easy way to recreate the Apple Watch Breath animation in CSS, using CSS variables [css-tricks].

Design and prototyping tool Marvel now has an API [marvelapp].

Bait and Switch

Mobile/back-end/programming

Polka [github/lukeed] is a microserver that’s so fast it promises to inspire dancing.

How to turn design mockups into code using deep learning [github/emilwallner].

Jarvis [github/zouhir] is an intelligent, browser-based Webpack dashboard.

A Spectre and Meltdown vulnerability checker for Linux [github/speed47].

Woah! Yuzu is a Nintendo Switch emulator [github/yuzu-emu].

Lead Zeppelin

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

UI/UX product designer [Leadfeeder], remote.
Senior software developer [Rackspace], 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].

Feeling Very Emoji-nal

Design/UX/product

How to design an addictive, and addicting, product [medium/swlh].

5 insights about building and maintaining a healthy UX culture. [medium/google-design].

In addition to being awful and traumatising for all concerned, the Hawaii missile alert mistakenly issued over the weekend is an example of horrendous UX. The operator was faced with a drop-down menu with two extremely different (but very similarly named!) choices, and chose poorly [qz]. Unbelievable.

“The Making of Apple’s Emoji: How designing these tiny icons changed my life” [medium/@agzmn]. This piece is 💯

Highly Qual-ified

News/business

OnePlus’ site has reportedly been hacked, with credit card details stolen [thenextweb].

People who use Transmission for your bittorrenting: there’s a flaw in Transmission that’ll let hackers take over your computer [arstechnica].

While Microsoft and Amazon enable censorship circumvention tools during Iran’s internet crackdown, for some reason Google doesn’t [motherboard.vice].

Qualcomm did pretty well out of smartphones, now it’s looking at what’s next: for a start, a global 5G network it’ll help launch that’ll apparently usher in an age of “massive connectivity” where billions of devices are connected and can stream data instantly [wired]. The basis for a new season of Black Mirror, I’m expecting.

An interview with Facebook’s vice-president in charge of newsfeed, talking through the move to deprioritize publishers and brands [wired]. And this Buzzfeed piece outlines reactions to the move, including from FB insiders [buzzfeed].

Today in “oh no, the youngs are different” panicking: teens aren’t partying anymore, they’re just on Snapchat or whatever it is the kids use! [wired]

Transferslot [transferslot] is a place to buy and sell side-projects.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

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

The 100 most influential people in cryptocurrency [cryptoweekly]. Yep, the inventor of Dogecoin is in there.

There’s now an Ethereum scam database, to avoid the grief associated with the Ethe [thenextweb]. That’s a rhyming thing, no-one calls it that.

Finally, a shoe company tricked people into swiping on an Instagram ad by adding a fake strand of hair to the product photos [medium/shanghaiist]. Forget about the shoes, I want to meet whoever came up with that idea!

There it is, Versioning for Tuesday. It's been so long since I emailed you, I hope the intervening hour or so has treated you well!

Tomorrow I'll be back with a single email that'll look similar to this. But I'll provide more updates on Versioning 2.0: The Big Exciting Project Thing as I have them!

Until then, I'll be shaving off all my hair so that I'll never get tricked by a fake strand of hair while browsing Instagram. That's a reasonable response, right?

Bye!