| No Images? Click here   Experience the Glory of ZeplinPainlessly inspect designs and colors. Export assets in the sizes you need. Get design updates immediately. "I can't imagine implementing designs without Zeplin. Easily one of the most useful designer <-> engineer apps." - Veselin Todorov, Product Hunt Blurred AlignsFront-endFirstly today, a cheatsheet for managing CSS alignment [patrickbrosset]. egjs-infinitegrid [github/naver] is a module to arrange card elements, including content, infinitely on a grid layout. SweetAlert [github/t4t5] is a nice little replacement for JavaScript’s “alert”. Why you should use Next.js, Razzle, CRA for your next project [hackernoon]. A good look at what makes React components reusable [medium/myheritage-engineering]. An overview of 2017’s JavaScript Rising Stars [risingstars], based on how projects like Vue performed on GitHub (Vue did very well, by the way). Thanks to the amazing Sacha Greif [twitter] for sending that through. Agent SmithMobile/back-end/programmingSentry [sentry] is open source error tracking software.. jasonette.agent [jasonette], an architecture for building mobile apps that use JavaScript tech while keeping native performance and UX, looks pretty ambitious. “It’s like microservices, but for the front-end.” Workerize [github/developit] lets you run a module in a Web Worker. What’s Zappening?Jobs, positions, engagements, duties and assignments (mainly jobs)Engineering manager, app improvement team [Zapier], 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]. Feature PresentationDesign/UX/productKevin Lynagh discusses how to choose features in products [deconstructconf]. FontRapid [fontrapid] is a tool for quickly designing and creating fonts in Sketch. Sketch Icons [github/amoreaux] is a Sketch plugin that lets you import icons and automatically apply a color mask. 5 basic tips for illustrating [medium/@alpower81]. Mort Modern [mort-modern.losttype] is a typeface in 56 styles. That link - which is a beautiful page in itself by the way, will also provide the story behind the typeface, if that’s what you’re into. The Color (and Style) of MoneyNews/business60 games were removed from the Google Play store after a security firm found pornographic ads and malicious components in them [arstechnica]. Inside Uber’s US$100,000 hacker payout, and the fall-out [nytimes]. Facebook could use dust patterns or camera lens scratches on uploaded photos as data in its friend suggestion product [gizmodo]. It could, it has the patent for such a technique, but representatives say it doesn’t. Promise. IBM brought its 50 qbit quantum computer to CES [mashable]. Looks like it’ll probably change everything ever, which is handy. A cryptocurrency rapper named CoinDaddy, Bitcoin cufflinks, a communal living space called the Cryptocurrency Crackhouse: the New York Times Style section meets cryptocurrency’s sudden millionaires [nytimes]. A new study suggests greater workforce diversity results in more innovative companies [fastcompany]. How to keep up with SEO in 2018 [thenextweb]. A Bit of a Gray AreaEverything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)Robin Sloan wrote a book featuring made-up music from a made-up culture. For the audiobook, he used machine learning to (convincingly) create this music! [mcdbooks] This Python code changes the color of a smart lightbulb to indicate how your cryptocurrency investments are doing [github/seankenkeremath]. Green for good, red for bad, blue for "wait, what am I doing, this is all so strange." Ninjas, rockstars, geniuses: 2017’s most popular weird job titles [blog.indeed]. Not included in the list, but ones I like: “Front-end Warlock,” “Growth-hacking Co-conspirator.” Take a selfie, find out which famous artwork your face resembles, thanks to Google [itunes.apple]. Everyone in the world - except me - has used this already, but I had to include it 'cos it’s great. I’m just worried I’ll end up with a Jackson Pollock. Finally, an idea to help with phone addiction: make your phone’s display greyscale [nytimes]. All the iPhone X-owning dogs out there are like: “way ahead of you.” Hello again! I hope this edition found you well. As, indeed, am I. If my overall happiness could be expressed via a lightbulb's color, it would be at least a pale green. Whether you're a ninja, a warlock, a rockstar, or even a dog: I'll have some more for you tomorrow. Until then, I'll be posing for many selfies - I'm trying to get Google to tell me I resemble the Vitruvian Man. But with fewer limbs. Back tomorrow!  Curated by Adam. |
Monday, January 15, 2018
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