Fly Me to the Moon

No Images? Click here Micron Job Front-end First up, the ultimate guide to JavaScript frameworks [javascriptreport]. It’s very exhaustive, there were so many I’d never heard of. An intro to the Intersection Observer API, useful for lazy-loading [smashingmagazine]. D3 Discovery [d3-discovery] is a nice little platform for finding D3 plugins. micron.js [webkul.github] is a JavaScript microinteraction library built with CSS animations. How to use CSS clip-path to create interactive effects [css-tricks]. Uh, a guide to building a mind-controlled HTML5 video [castillo]. I guess we are living in the future.   Rise of the Machines Mobile/back-end/programming A guide to machine learning in JavaScript [robinwieruch]. How to use npm for your apps while setting up fail-safes for the next outage [nodesource]. A guide to building an events app, using Meteor and React [scotch]. Chrome now has an API to help you predict whether media playback will be smooth and power efficient [developers.google].     Such a Drag Design/UX/product How to define UX patterns for drag and drop across components [uxdesign]. An intro to Gestalt Principles (strategies your brain uses to try make sense of the world) and how to use them in UI design [medium.muz.li]. One designer designs a font from scratch, and submits it to Google Fonts, in 24 hours [medium/freecodecamp]. Not bad!   Fly Me to the Moon News/business Cambodia’s democracy looks to be kinda falling apart thanks to Facebook, a social media-savvy prime minister, and fake news [buzzfeed]. A New Zealand rocket company (I love writing that) is launching small satellites and giving its launches amusing names [wired]. Let’s check in on what the tech industry has done to address its own harassment problem. Not much? Right. [wired] Spotify beat Apple to save the music industry by betting on algorithms over curation [theringer]. Moonshot [itunes.apple] is a notebook app for entrepreneurs. A big collection of resources for your start-up [startup.flammate]. Product Hunt’s holding its annual Golden Kitty awards for 2017, so go vote for your favorite products! [producthunt].   The Sandworm has Turned Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) An interesting idea: what if we nominated someone to make decisions about our personal data? [medium/@tomsteinberg] It’s a bit different from the current situation, where most of the time either no-one, or Mark Zuckerberg, I guess, makes those decisions. The United States Winter Olympics team will be kept warm by wearing Ralph Lauren jackets with “heat-conducting” ink [wired]. Director Denis Villeneuve is making a new film adaptation of Dune, and he says it’ll be Star Wars for adults [avclub]. That’s half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder talk, but I'm not afraid of his Star Wars criticism. Fear is the mind killer. A great piece on the Free-Net, the way everyone got online before the internet went mainstream [motherboard.vice]. Finally, a guy who cannot handle a virtual reality experience, gets rather freaked out [digg]. Look at this man carefully, remember his face - we are all destined to become like him as VR improves. (A few swears in the title and content - some of the bad ones are bleeped though.)         That's Versioning for Tuesday. I hope your Tuesday goes well (or has gone well, depending on your timezone). I'll have some more, non-virtual links tomorrow, written using mind-reading technology, as always. See ya then! Curated by Adam. Wait, why am I here, what is this?   You're receiving this email because you've signed up for Versioning, SitePoint's daily email for web developers. Manage your preferences to stop receiving Versioning, or unsubscribe from all SitePoint emails below.   Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe