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Read All About ItNew thing alertI just posted up a free update full of weekend longreads I recommend you take a look at. I'll be updating this once a week with stuff I think will float your boat. Here it is, for your perusal [versioning.substack]. Enjoy reading it all, or at least adding it to your guilty "to-read" list, in the knowledge that many people will be in the same boat! Shows PromiseFront-endFirst up, with Rawss [github/wix] you can use CSS variables in any browser. React CSS Themr [github/javivasco] offers easy theming for CSS Modules. Nice React Layout [github/ekros] lets you create nice Flexbox-based layouts, sans actual Flexbox knowledge. Obnoxious CSS [github/tholman] is a set of animations and guess what - they're quite obnoxious. SitePoint alumnus and general legend Louis Lazaris talks through using default parameters in functions, something you can now do (in ES6+) [css-tricks]. Rollup now has code splitting [medium/rollup].
Lessons learned in a year focused on all things accessibility [alistapart]. You Can Count On ItMobile/back-end/programmingThe top 1000 most-depended-upon npm packages [gist.github]. Nact [nact] is Redux but for the server. And redux-offline-queue [github/inspireNL] is an offline queue for Redux, useful for handling requests or actions while an app is offline. Speaking of, how to detect and handle connection issues in Swift [dev]. Codela [codela] looks like a great way to learn programming via online challenges. Fake It Til Ya Make ItDesign/UX/productFakeClients [fakeclients] generates fake clients with fake business needs you can use to practice your logo design. Or get an idea for a business! Print design tips for the digital age [read.compassofdesign]. Something ScrewyNews/businessGrubHub drivers are contractors, a judge has ruled [techcrunch]. UK lawmakers went to Washington to yell at social media executives (to do more about bad info and fake news) [bloomberg]. Facebook's testing a downvote button [theverge]. If only they'd rolled it out earlier, it would've saved those lawmakers the trip. Lenovo's recalling 5th generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptops that were built before November 1 [arstechnica]. Why? There's a loose screw that may cause a fire. WhatsApp has brought in a payments feature to India [theverge]. Twitter made a profit in Q4 2017! [theverge] It also lost users! Looks like visitors to porn sites are doing quite a bit of involuntary cryptocurrency mining [motherboard.vice]. With new features in Chrome that'll point out the insecurity of HTTP sites, Google's pushing everyone to HTTPS [security.googleblog] Not content with dominating literally every other aspect of life, Google's is now pretty keen on becoming a travel powerhouse[quartzy.qz]. Productivity articles on Medium are a dime a dozen, but this one on lessons learned from a digital detox is worth your time[medium/swlh]. Remember to print it out and throw away your computer for maximum productivity, of course. Shonky KongEverything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)John Perry Barlow's 25 principles of adult behavior [kottke]. I think I do four of them. You can make your own Snapchat custom lenses! [theverge] A look at the 157 new emoji that'll hit your devices in the second half of 2018 [blog.emojipedia]. I'm in Australia, so I'm obliged to react to this by saying "KANGAROO!". But I'm a New Zealander, so I'm equally obliged to say, "what, no kiwi?" (The bird, the fruit is well incorporated.) The King of Kong "star" Billy Mitchell says his disputed Donkey Kong records were not faked via emulation [arstechnica]. Meanwhile, tomorrow, I'm definitely going to watch The King of Kong for the 20th time. A CAPTCHA designed to keep humans out [humansnotinvited]. FInally, here's a neural network that will insult you, after being trained on a corpus of Reddit comments [roastme]. "I don't need a computer to insult me, I've got my wife!" - Rodney Dangerfield, if he were still alive. And that is all for the week, the first one entirely on the Substack platform. Thanks again for all your support! Thanks also go to the 100 people who jumped in and gave their suggestions for how they'd like Versioning to go. I'll report back Monday with the feedback, and the plan from here on in. Have a good weekend, make sure you read all of those longreads I sent through. Otherwise we're not friends anymore!
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