| No Images? Click here   Get 3 Months of Skillshare Classes for Only $0.99With over 18,000 online classes in business, design, tech and more, Skillshare lets you learn the skills you need for your best year yet. For a limited time, Versioning readers can get their first 3 months for only 99 cents. No matter your personal or professional goals, you can achieve them this year with Skillshare. The Toast of the TownFront-endFirst up today, you ever wondered JavaScript frameworks are fastest? All the time? Constantly. Here’s some data [javascriptreport]. How to build a realtime chat app with React and GraphQL [scotch]. Toast UI Editor [nhnent.github] is a markdown and WYSIWYG editor. Thanks to KyuWoo for sending that tip through on the Twitters. headless-devtools [github/cowchimp] lets you perform Chrome DevTools actions from code, via Headless Chrome and Puppeteer. Every Cloud Has a Silver LiningMobile/back-end/programmingTesting microservices without losing your mind [medium/@copyconstruct]. A mega-walkthrough for running a Node app on Amazon EC2 [engineering.gosquared]. A guide to embedding NativeScript in an existing iOS app [github/nativescript]. And a look at how modern browsers accelerate performance [blog.sessionstack]. Social SecurityJobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs)Operations/security engineer [healthfinch], 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]. Fact or Friction?Design/UX/productHow the designers at Hudl approached building their Sketch library [medium/in-the-hudl]. Examples where friction is actually good for UX [smashingmagazine]. Go Ahead, Make My DaySpecial feature: makersI was alerted to an excellent Twitter thread by the inimitable Wes Bos today [twitter], where he invited people to promote cool stuff. It’s great, so I thought I’d share some of the stuff that stood out to me. S/O to everyone who replied. @shamdasanii [twitter] built Enlight [enlight], a tool for learning to code by building projects. @mikestreety [twitter] wrote a book about learning Vue.js - available via Packt for $5 [packtpub]. @pjausovec [twitter] wrote a five-part tutorial on building a URL shortener with React, Apollo and GraphQL [hackernoon]. @kentcdodds [twitter] can do a handstand, and also has a free 75-minute beginner React video Course on Egghead [egghead]. @raquelxmoss [twitter] wrote a guide to better code reviewing [medium/@raquelxmoss]. While we're at it: another place to share your cool stuff? Here. Please email me to promote your cool thing! The Mind BogglesNews/businessAn AI can fool Mozilla’s popular DeepSpeech text-to-speech system. No matter what the audio file sounds like to a human, the text output will be whatever the attacker wants it to be [thenextweb]. Which is cool because voice-activated technology isn’t increasing in popularity at all these days, so we’re all good. You think that’s a scary AI story? Well these scientists are training AI to read minds [thenextweb]. Suggestion: use this technology to work out what these scientists were thinking when they decided this was a good idea. Uganda’s building its own Facebook and Twitter clones, apparently (the government says) to avoid the costs associated with having content hosted overseas [thenextweb]. I’m sure there are no other concerning uses for such a set-up *cough* censorship *cough*. Advertising firms say they’re losing a fifth of their revenue thanks to Safari’s new Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature[theguardian]. Safari only has 15% of the browser market, by the way. How to fix your company culture, according to Netflix legend Patty McCord [recode]. Mighty Morph-inEverything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)Kids perform better at tasks when dressed as Batman, study says [weforum]. Well, I’ve got a new work uniform then, I’ll be talking to HR, ready my Bat Phone! Shea Serrano fact-checked Morpheus’ red pill/blue pill speech [theringer]. Turns out, quite factual. That article also links to a theory that Neo is not the One which would’ve blown 12-year-old me away. Who am I kidding? Current me is blown away. Finally, the worst stuff at CES [digg]. Internet-connected toilets, laundry folding robots. Plus some bad ideas. That was a big one! I hope there were some new and great things that improved your day. I'll be back with a regular-sized Versioning tomorrow, coming at you from the Bat Cave. When I dress up as Batman, I'm going for the Val Kilmer Batman, of course. Isn't everyone? See you tomorrow, fellow citizens of Gotham.
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Thursday, January 11, 2018
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
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