Web Design: Born to Run

Monday, January 8, 2018

Born to Run

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Born to Run

Front-end

First up, one approach for giving your sites flexible type using :root [allthingssmitty].

Runway [runwayapp] is a tool for devs and designers to build styleguides from their stylesheets, which has a nice little ring to it.

8 best practices for CSS documentation [webdesign.tutsplus].

A guide to monitoring unused CSS via automating Chrome DevTools [blog.cowchimp].

Pinocode [pinocode] is an offline front-end playground in your browser.

A developer’s guide to robust client-side JavaScript [milily].

graphi [npmjs] is a hapi GraphQL server plugin.

Vue-MC [vuemc] helps you handle models and collections in Vue.

11 Vue component libraries you should know about [blog.bitsrc].

A Token Effort

Mobile/back-end/programming

A fullstack tutorial for using GraphQL [howtographql].

A tool for that’ll automagically create a CLI for any npm module [github/diegozoracky].

A guide to creating and using stores in Redux [javascriptfatigue].

CaffeineScript [github/caffeine-suite] is an open source programming language, inspired by CoffeeScript, that compiles to JavaScript. It’s apparently quite fun.

Platform-agnostic Security Tokens [github/paragonie] look to be more secure and generally better alternatives to stuff like JSON Web Tokens.

Chaaaaarge!

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

Front-end developer [ReCharge], remote.
QA engineer [Doximity], 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].

Gif or Take

Design/UX/product

A guide to using WhatFontIs to find and use the right font in your projects [sitepoint].

A guide to implementing accessibility in agency projects [viget].

Gifme [sketchgif] is a fun little tool that’ll play gifs and videos in Sketch while you design.

The Space Race

News/business

Intel’s getting hit with some class action lawsuits based on Spectre and Meltdown [arstechnica].

Speaking of melting down, HP recalled some laptop batteries because customers have complained about them “overheating” and “melting” and “charring” [arstechnica]. Seems like a clear overreaction - a charred laptop is just a part of the modern workplace, isn’t it?

Two major Apple shareholders are pushing the company for better tools to help parents restrict children’s access to smartphones, and to study iPhone addition in children [bloomberg].

Space [youjustneedspace] is an app that’ll apparently save you from app addiction. It’s from Dopamine Labs, a company selling a different product, Dopamine, that claims to help make apps more addictive. Which seems... yeah... A company co-founder jumped into a HackerNews thread to try to resolve this apparent contradiction [news.ycombinator].

A warning against using third-party code, expressed via a detailed (but Not Real) description of an (again, Not Real) in-progress-attack [hackernoon].

Hackers breached Reddit’s email systems to grab Bitcoin Cash tips [thenextweb].

Bitcoin debit cards no longer work in Europe [motherboard.vice] thanks to some old payment company called Visa.

To fix Facebook, Zuckerberg needs to drop acid [shift.newco]. That’s my kind of analysis!

Buy Me a Coffee [buymeacoffee] is an easy and pretty way to receive donations from your community.

Coneheads

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

A curated list of all the best student discounts [studddent].

This piece on finding music without algorithms [theverge] is very good and I agree with it a lot. Also, it includes some great music recommendations, immediately proving its point!

InstaSaber [instasaber] is the AR (iOS) app we’ve all been waiting for. Point your camera at your hand holding a tube of paper, and you’ll have an AR lightsaber.

Finally, how to make your own 3D display with a cone [roxanneluo.github].

Hi, that was Versioning for Monday, I hope it was to your liking! I'll be back with more from the web tomorrow, after me and a few others here spend a few hours lightsaber fighting with the last of the office printer supplies. Do people print things, these days? Seems like a safe bet.

Back tomorrow, in 3D! (If you've set up that cone thing, as I will.)