Web Design: Sappy-Go-Lucky

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Sappy-Go-Lucky

Add It Up

Front-end

First up, a round-up of all Codrops resources in 2017 [tympanus].

Position: sticky can handle your sticky navbars for you, no JavaScript needed [advent2017.digitpaint].

Immer [github/mweststrate] is a tiny package that lets you work with immutable state in an easier way.

How to document better [ybrikman].

How and why to write higher order components [paulgray].

An intro to an upcoming browser feature: additive animation with the web animations API [css-tricks].

Sappy-Go-Lucky

Mobile/back-end/programming

An intro to RubyMine, a useful IDE for Ruby and Rails devs [sitepoint].

A guide to setting up webpack for any project [scotch].

Questions you should ask yourself when writing tests [charemza].

An introduction to the Web Payment API [smashingmagazine].

An intro to Sapper, a Node.js framework, inspired by Next.js, that offers lightweight progressive web app creation[svelte.technology].

wav2letter [github/facebookresearch] is an end-to-end automatic speech recognition system from Facebook.

A curated list of development checklists [github/huyingjie]. Which I’ve now included in a curated newsletter… this is getting deep...

Heat Seeq-ing

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

Full-stack engineer [Seeq] remote.
Front-end web designer [Optimal] 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].

Logo Dancing

Design/UX/product

10 logo design trends that’ll dominate 2018 [thenextweb].

3 UX features Medium deactivated, the design reasons behind those moves [uxplanet], (and why those may have been bad decisions).

6 interesting and actually kind of plausible design predictions for 2018 [webdesignerdepot].

Speak for Yourself

News/business

Oooh…. hmmm… A fundamental flaw in Intel chips means Linux and Windows devs are scrambling to make significant, performance-impacting updates to guard against the security bug [theregister]. Oh, and macOS and other similar operating systems will need an update too.

Google appears to have produced voice-generating AI that’s indistinguishable from human speech [qz]. I can’t think of any way such a technology could be abused, so this is great news!

A music publishing company representing artists like the Beach Boys and - appropriately - Rage Against the Machine has hit Spotify with a US 1.6 billion lawsuit for failing to pay proper royalties [gizmodo].

At the end of 2017, Facebook announced it was removing the “disputed” flags it had added to fake news in the newsfeed. Turns out they don’t work, so they’re adding “related articles” components instead. Here’s why [medium/facebook-design].

Cryptojacking -where sites hijack your device to mine cryptocurrency, is becoming a bit of a problem [wired].

3things [3things] has you pick your three most important things for 2018, then emails you to bug you about them every month. And here I was using crushing guilt - instead of a fancy service- like an animal.

Block Rockin’ Beats

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

This app collects your spare change to help people make bail [wired].

themer [github/mjswensen] takes a set of colors and generates themes for your code editors, terminal windows, wallpapers, all that stuff.

If you got a new Mac over the holidays, good for you! This guide explains the process of setting up a development environment on your new toy [github/sb2nov].

A survey of how realistic Black Mirror’s tech is [quartzy.qz]. Just in case you didn’t find that show terrifying enough already. (Spoilers abound in that link, by the way. Both for the show and for life.)

Finally, the latest company to use a tenuous blockchain tie-in to juice its stock? The parent company of Hooters [arstechnica].

There you have it, another edition of Versioning for Wednesday. I'll have more for you tomorrow!

Until then, just remember that you can no longer trust anyone's voice to be the real deal. Might be worth throwing away your phones and insisting all communication is done in-person, just to be safe.

Black Mirror really needs to step up its game!