Web Design: It's a Doge's Life

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

It's a Doge's Life

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More Than Just a Pretty Face

Front-end

Firstly, Prettier [prettier] originally an opinionated formatter for JavaScript, now does CSS and more as well!

A guide to building a dynamic 3D map with WRLD 3D [sitepoint].

Browsers are starting to support JavaScript modules, so here’s a guide to building one and using it in a Vue.js app, no Babel or Webpack needed! [codementor]

A responsive dashboard built with Vue.js and Bootstrap 4 [github/epicmaxco].

Chris Coyier argues developers really, really shouldn’t build sites that only work with Chrome [css-tricks].

A Time and a Place

Mobile/back-end/programming

From genomes to 2GB of cat pics (yep): a collection of quality public datasets [github/caesar0301].

Github-file-icon [github/xxhomey19] is a Chrome/Firefox extension that gives you proper icons for file extensions on GitHub.

Good advice: when writing code - do it at design time, not runtime [medium.freecodecamp].

On Rails

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

Rails developer [Tanooki Labs], remote.

Want your next open position here? You should! 49,000+ very qualified readers will see it and a slightly smaller number of those will apply! Go here and place your ad. [sitepoint].

With Flying Colors

Design/UX/product

A guide to creating user flows quickly in Sketch [blog.prototypr].

An argument for limiting your design tools [medium/@vanschneider].

Design style guides to learn from this year [blog.prototypr].

3 interesting trends for January 2018 [webdesignerdepot].

Aquarelo, reviewed here [macstories] looks like a nice little Mac color utility.

It’s a Doge’s Life

News/business

Remember, Dogecoin, from a few years ago? It was a good symbol of how crazy, ridiculous and just plain fun cryptocurrency could be. How we laughed! Well, the market cap of Dogecoin is now US $2 billion [arstechnica]. Such bubble. Much wow.

Telegram’s going to do an ICO for a chat cryptocurrency [techcrunch].

And, to round out the cryptocurrency coverage today: 12 changes poised to shake up the blockchain world in 2018 [venturebeat].

The world’s largest biometric ID system is super insecure, and keeps getting hacked [motherboard.vice].

Update your Apple stuff - there are new iOS and macOS updates that’ll address the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities [arstechnica]. Also, here's an update on what the vulnerabilities mean for WebKit [webkit].

As expected, Ben Thompson on Stratechery has a clear and useful explanation of Spectre and Meltdown, and how the issue is an example of larger industry trends [stratechery].

Netflix not only personalizes the content it shows you, it also personalizes the artwork for that content [medium/netflix-techblog]. So if you’ve shown a preference for Uma Therman in the past, the artwork for Pulp Fiction will highlight her. Netflix’s scale hurts my brain a bit.

Coneheads

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

Take a selfie, get some personalized emoji with Mirror [mirror-ai]. Thanks to AI, of course!

Movies of the Week [itunes.apple] is an iOS app that’ll alert you to the US $0.99 iTunes movie rental of the week.

And Hidden Gems of Steam [steam250] shows you the top 250 highly-rated, but little-known games on Steam.

After 21,000 holes, a player beat the seemingly endless Desert Golf [waypoint.vice].

Finally, a ride in the most advanced self-driving car in the world [youtube/carthrottle]. Can’t believe they didn’t get David Hasslehoff in for this segment.