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In which a neural network whispers sweet nothings

To Your Heart's Content New thang alert As promised in yesterday's edition, here's the first of the new media suggestions posts [versioning.substack]. I've collected the best stuff I've watched, read, and listened to recently. To be efficient, I recommend consuming all three types of content at the same time! The next one will be out in about two weeks. This is a good time for a reminder that, for you OG members, free access to the daily newsletter and additional content, like the deep dives, updated resources, and these media guides, will end on March 5. Once we hit that date you'll automatically move to the free subscription status, and receive free weekly updates. If you'd like to stay a Versioning member, full membership can be yours for $5 per month, or $50 for a year's access. (That's a 30% saving until March 5, btw). You can read more about membership or sign up here [versioning.substack]. Some of you have already jumped on a plan - or you're a new member - in both cases I think you're amazing. We the People Front-end First up, Article Performance Leaderboard [projects.hearstnp] is a ranking of page performance for various popular news sites. Wee People [github/propublica] is a typeface consisting entirely of people in silhouette. Charcoal [github/setholito] is a starter template using Vue CLI webpack-simple and Bulma. A guide to the CSS syntax that matters, and the syntax that doesn't [css-tricks]. Life in the Fastlane Mobile/back-end/programming CPU Features [ [github/google] is a cross-platform C library for receiving CPU features at runtime. Fastlane CI [ [github/fastlane] is an open source, self-hosted, mobile-optimized continuous integration system from Fastlane. What's new in Laravel 5.6 [ [scotch]. How to import data into AWS Redshift with the COPY command [sitepoint]. An intro to Chrome's Background Sync API and exponential backoff [notes.eellson]. Deep learning and cryptocurrency trading - together at last [wildml]. Google's Cloud TPUs - built for machine learning tasks with TensorFlow - are available in beta [cloudplatform.googleblog]. Forget About It Design/UX/product How to design for working memory [uxplanet]. The laziness that kills good products [medium/purpledesign]. Books that'll help you become a user testing pro [medium/quietstars]. Solid State News/business Massive advertiser Unilever may pull its ads from Facebook and YouTube if the companies don't get their act together with divisive content [latimes]. I think Unilever is just saying that everyone just needs to take a step back and come up with a plan. Probably while eating some Ben & Jerry's and drinking some Lipton tea, right? The guy who predicted the 2016 fake news crisis thinks things may get quite a bit worse [buzzfeed]. Apple's got a plan to prevent future bugs in iOS: slow down the development process [bloomberg]. Some Amazon Prime members can get 2-hour delivery on fresh produce. A look at how Amazon is Amazon-ing Whole Foods [theatlantic]. Evernote's co-founder is now working on an AI chat bot for reporting workplace abuse [recode]. Solid [solid.mit] is a project led by Tim Berners-Lee that proposes a pretty radical change to the web, separating personal data from apps and enabling users to own their data and move between services easily. Every blockbuster game has thousands of unseen workers building levels and characters to populate them. The Outline met some of them [theoutline]. Lessons learned from working for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs [hackernoon]. This isn't the listicle I was worried it would be, it's an interesting and well-told short biography with a few key lessons. How to read an entire book in a day [medium/@alltopstartups]. Step 1: buy short books. LOVE BOT Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) ShelfTaught [shelftaught] is a platform for sharing books and seeing what experts like to read. *Cough* kinda like this media thing I wrote [versioning.substack]. A preview of Alto's Odyssey, the upcoming sequel to the excellent smartphone game Alto's Adventure [kottke]. Finally, candy hearts with messages written by a neural network [aiweirdness]. I'm getting my wife some that say "YOU ARE BAG". A private joke we have. There's a hit of Versioning for your Tuesday. I'll have some more for you tomorrow. Until then, I'll leave you with a poem I definitely wrote and didn't take from that last link: FANCY MY HERO, I HONKER, YOU A GOO I meant every word. Curated by Adam.

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