Web Design: War Zone

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

War Zone

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A Quick Reminder Thing about Big Changes!

PSA

Before I get started, a reminder that we're moving to the new, paid model on Thursday. BUT because you're a legend, and a current subscriber, you've got a free month's access to the daily newsletter.

I'll be coming through with a request for how you can help out - and earn even more free subscription time - tomorrow.

In the meantime, so you know a bit more about the company we're partnering with, here's a great article on them from last year [recode]. Also, my current fav publication on there [shatnerchatner] (til we launch, anyway).

Exciting, more tomorrow!

Play Dumb

Front-end

Purgecss [purgecss] is a tool for removing unused CSS.

An intro to using variable fonts on the web [css-tricks].

How to make sure your above-the-fold CSS is enjoyed by Google’s stringent PageSpeed Insights tool [c2experience].

Write dumb code [matthewrocklin]. Way ahead of you.

War Zone

Mobile/back-end/programming

A guide to routing and route-protection in server-rendered Vue apps, via Nuxt.js [css-tricks].

How to add realtime data push to a serverless back-end [hackernoon].

A guide to running Go programs as IBM cloud functions [ibm].

Wargames [overthewire] are a collection of fun games you can indulge in to learn and practice security concepts.

Feedback-burner

Design/UX/product

How to handle design feedback from non-designers [medium/ux-power-tools].

MAIL [invisionapp] is a free, cross-platform UI kit for building social app experiences.

An intro to offboarding in the online world [smashingmagazine].

Why your portfolio isn’t working [vanschneider].

And an intro to Cloudinary, a tool for devs to manage videos [sitepoint].

Given the Run Around

News/business

Oh, remember that horrible story about fake followers I shared yesterday? Yeah, the New York Attorney General is investigating the firm mentioned in the story [nytimes].

More than 2000 Wordpress sites are infected with a keylogger [arstechnica]. Like, a particular keylogger, I’m sure there are other keyloggers running around too though.

There’s a new Windows patch to disable Intel’s bad hardware fix for Spectre and Meltdown[arstechnica]. This is getting confusing. Get the patch!

Strava’s activity data revealed the location of secret US army bases [theguardian]. On the upside, it shows a lot of US soliders are swole.

Google wants you to publish your own local news story, has built an app [slate]. I bet everyone who was worried about Google and other tech companies killing the media feels pretty silly right now.

Salesforce’s CEO thinks Facebook should be regulated like the cigarette industry [theguardian].

There’s a bill in the Washington state legislature that’d make it illegal to sell electronics you can’t repair yourself [motherboard.vice].

A complete list of winners in Product Hunt’s annual Golden Kitty awards [blog.producthunt].