Web Design: Oh No, Crypto

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Oh No, Crypto

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Size Matters

Front-end

First up, a guide to understanding sizing in CSS layout [smashingmagazine].

A guide to setting up a Vue.js serverless checkout form [css-tricks]. That’s the start of the series, so covers setting up and testing the project, but it’d be worth keeping an eye on.

Functional-Light JavaScript [github/getify] is a book offering a pragmatic, balanced approach to functional programming in JavaScript.

A Vue + Bootstrap 4 Material Design UI kit [mdboostrap].

“display: contents” is coming to browsers [blogs.igalia].

After All

Mobile/back-end/programming

An intro to serverless development with Node and MongoDB Atlas [scotch].

After [github/jaredpalmer] is a Next.js-like framework for server-rendered React apps built with React Router 4.

Please Explain

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

Interaction/front-end designer [Cleverclip], remote.
Fullstack developer [Explain], 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].

Law of the Jungle

Design/UX/product

Competitors [competitors] lets you check out what the competition in a particular industry is doing design-wise.

A set of icons to use to let visitors know you accept cryptocurrency [cryptoicon].

Laws of UX [lawsofux] is a collection of maxims you should keep in mind when working on user interfaces.

Oh No, Crypto

News/business

If this is relevant to you in a financial sense, you know this already, but Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies took a big hit Tuesday, pluging about 25% [arstechnica].

Meanwhile, researchers think one person probably drove the price of Bitcoin from US 150to1000 [techcrunch]. Where was that person on Tuesday?!

Amid evidence of it being a Ponzi Scheme, investment platform BitConnect has shut down [thenextweb].

22 US states are suing the FCC for repealing net neutrality [motherboard.vice].

The Chrome extensions HTTP Request Header, Nyoogle, Stickies, and Lite Bookmarks were removed from the Chrome Web Store after finding they took over machines for a click-fraud scheme [arstechnica].

This Gmail security alert looks kinda like a phishing attempt [motherboard.vice]. I actually received this and thought it was dodgy!

MailPort [mailport] sends your MailChimp newsletter to Facebook Messenger. (Versioning doesn’t use MailChimp, unfortunately.

Orange You Glad You Bought a Tesla?

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

This will make you feel better: a list of scientific breakthroughs from a 17th century scientist have almost all been broken through [kottke].

Hackers are pretty close to unlocking the Nintendo Switch [arstechnica].

The weird history of the web’s first viral video [wired].

Finally, you can own a completely auto-steering Tesla today, if you want, no need to wait for them to sort out their self-driving software a bit more. You just need to jam an orange into the steering wheel [motherboard.vice].

There's Versioning for Wednesday, I hope you're doing well.

My plan until the next time I email you is to just start jamming oranges into various interfaces, just to see how they respond. I may have unlocked full AI a bit earlier than we thought!

Back tomorrow, fruit lovers.