Web Design: Satellite of Love

Friday, January 26, 2018

Satellite of Love

Snap-Happy

Front-end

First up, will it be CSS or JavaScript for web animations? A guide to choosing between the two[heartinternet].

How to use resource priorities to speed up delivery [css-tricks].

An update on the world of ECMAScript regular expressions - by all accounts, they’re getting better![mathiasbynens]

An intro to CSS Scroll Snap [webdesign.tutsplus].

TrackChanges [trackchanges.mikerogers] lets you keep track of the changes you make to a live page in Chrome developer tools.

Human Træfik

Mobile/back-end/programming

date-fns [date-fns] is a modern JavaScript date utility.

Træfik [traefik] is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. It’s pronounced “traffic”, by the way.

console-probe [npmjs] lets you inspect JavaScript properties and methods from the console.

karmatic [github/developit] offers easy automatic headless browser testing.

The Webpack 4 beta has been released, bringing better performance and lots of other goodies[medium/webpack].

Quite a lot of detail on copying an object in JavaScript [dassur]

How one team simplified their Node tooling set-up [medium/blogfoster-engineering].

An intro to the life-changing productive magic of debugging [webdesign.tutsplus].

Word to the Wise

Design/UX/product

How to build a design system with a small team [medium.freecodecamp].

If you’re looking for inspiration for a new product or company, Colorwise [colorwise] lets you see the colors used by similar start-ups or products on ProductHunt.

How to use gradients in UX design [smashingmagazine].

Learn how to deliver a design critique, essential if you want to build an innovative culture [fastcodesign].

How Uber unified its mobile onboarding [eng.uber].

Satellite of Love

News/business

When it comes to abusing their access to customer data, it turns out Lyft staff are just as bad as Uber[techcrunch].

Google’s now letting their users turn off remarketing ads and mute any particular ad they don’t want to see[searchengineland]. These settings - which only work for Google-served ads - are in the Ads Settings area of “My Account”.

With Google, Bitcoin and USPS, it’s super easy to buy fentanyl [arstechnica] - that’s quite a bad thing, what with that whole ongoing-opioid crisis hammering the United States.

Looks like the United States government may pull funding for the International Space Station in 2025[theverge]. If that happens, I guess the clock is ticking on Elon Musk to get to Mars so we have a new destination for them.

It also looks like loot boxes may be legislated [arstechnica].

What science is like in North Korea [theoutline].

Today in incredibly unsurprising news: the NSA’s voice recognition technology is really, really good[theintercept].

When New Zealand company Rocket Lab reached orbit with some small satellites last weekend, they also launched a shiny geodesic-sphere/disco ball “to inspire humanity to venture to the stars”. A lovely idea, but some astronomers are not happy [arstechnica].

iPhone 7 Nation Army

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

Remember those hilarious stories of random companies putting blockchain in their name? Oh how we laughed! Yeah, so those companies' stocks are now crashing by 40 to 90% [wolfstreet].

Waze now has a carpool service [waze].

Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov talks through four memorable games [youtube/thenewyorker]. I’m looking forward to hearing the Alpha Go AI talk through its favorite Go victories.

Meet Steve, the “proton aurora” [sciencealert].

Finally, Jack White is banning phones from his gigs [nme]. My only problem with this policy is that it doesn’t go far enough - we should ban phones from every public space.

There's Versioning for the week! I'll be back next week. Today is technically a holiday for Australia, but I had too many boxes of loot- I mean, links... not to share with y'all.

Back with plenty more on Monday 👋