Web Design: Locked Down

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Locked Down

Heart of Gold

Front-end

Material Design components for Angular [material.angular].

A guide to building a nice little memory matching game in JavaScript [scotch].

In December, Smashing Magazine ran a test for readers to show off their front-end performance chops. Here are the results and the winners [smashingmagazine].

The 100 most hearted Pens on CodePen in 2017 [codepen].

You Got Served

Mobile/back-end/programming

fac [github/mkchoi212] is a little command line interface for solving git conflicts.

Majestic [github/raathigesh] is a nice UI for running tests in Jest.

Pragma [withpragma] aims to be a home base for Ethereum developers.

Uppy [github/transloadit] is an open source file uploader for web browsers.

A serverless starter kit [trackchanges].

Stacked Up

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

Rails engineer [FullStack] remote.
Quality engineer [Seeq] 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].

Burn the Midnight Oil

Design/UX/product

Alva [meetalva] is an open source design tool for cross-functional product teams - you can design using the same components your engineers are using..

Fizzl [fizzl] is a tool for grabbing feedback from clients, team members and customers super fast.

Midnight [midnightsketch] is a dark Sketch theme for macOS.

10 design books to help you start the year off on a good foot [fastcodesign].

Locked Down

News/business

Everything known so far about those vulnerabilities discovered in modern CPUs [gizmodo].

There’s a warehouse full of Otto’s smart locks out there, but the company has folded [engadget].

There are reports that Spotify has secretly filed for its IPO [axios].

Basecamp is now paying all its employees - none of whom live in San Francisco - as if they did [m.signalvnoise], which is just a generally amazing thing for a company to do.

Fedo [fedo] is a tool for developers, designers, and product managers to use to keep feature specs organized and not “nowhere”.

Ideas on ways to handle client tasks like a pro [sitepoint].

Total Eclipse of the Heart

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

Guardian Circle [guardiancircle] is a new safety-focused social network that’s built to quickly mobilize people to help you when you’re in trouble.

A guide to preventing cryptocurrency miners hijacking your browser [howtogeek]. If you use Chrome, there’s an extension, for a start. But Opera has it built-in [thenextweb].

With the hype around cryptocurrency heating up by the day, a Dutch organization took it to the obvious extreme: they worked out how much crypto could be mined using human body heat [motherboard.vice]. If we accidentally invent The Matrix because of this stuff, I’m kind of fine with it, to be honest?

Finally, add the New York Times’ space calendar to your own calendar and get reminded when cool space stuff will happen in 2018 [nytimes]. Finally, a reason to use calendars!

As your calendar predicted - another Versioning for another Thursday. (If Versioning actually is on your calendar, you sound like a massive fan so thank you! Everyone else, carry on.)

I'll be back for Friday's edition on... Friday, I think. Until then I'll be learning jiu-jitsu, trying to run up as many walls as I can, and investing in a lot of leather and some armless sunglasses. (Seriously, how good was The Matrix!?)

See you then, unless you're back in Zion already - terrible WiFi there.