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The New Normal Front-end First up, a modern normalize.css [github/sindresorhus]. Rachel Andrew delves into the CSS Grid weeds [vimeo]. And, lastly for the CSS links today: some lovely animated cubes produced using pure CSS [codepen/davidkpiano]. Then, a guide to JavaScript testing in 2018 [medium/welldone-software]. How to test Reducers in the NGRX Store [toddmotto]. I imagine this is a common problem these days - how to replace common jQuery use-cases with Vue code [smashingmagazine]. And back to basics - Website Starter Kit [glitch/website-starter-kit] is a four-part video course to get a website together via HTML, CSS, JS and Node. C For Yourself Mobile/back-end/programming Common back-end developer interview questions you can prepare for/pretend to know thoroughly [github/arialdomartini]. SSL-check [jitbit] will crawl an HTTPS website to find insecure images, scripts and CSS files. Helpful since Google's about to punish insecure sites in search results. You should probably learn C [blog.bradfieldcs]. unfurl [jlospinoso.github] is a tool for estimating link entropy, useful for making sure URLs you've generated, to give a user one-time privileged access to something for example, won't be a liability. Use Checkstyle [github/checkstyle] to make sure your Java code adheres to a code standard or validation rules. Everybody Scrolls Design/UX/product The complete beginner's guide to information architecture [uxbooth]. Page length myths [uxplanet]. Turns out people do scroll. An intro to anticipatory design - using data to stay one step ahead of the user (think: Netflix, Amazon, Spotify's various algorithms [usability247]. WordPress themes that'll help get your design agency's website off the ground ASAP [sitepoint]. Third Time's a Charm News/business Uh, Facebook's pushing iOS app users in the United States to download a data-tracking VPN [techcrunch]. So I guess Facebook is keen on knowing slightly more about your life. What's that, 99.9999% life coverage now? A critical vulnerability in Telegram lets attackers install malware on users' computers [arstechnica]. Amazon's working on some AI chips for letting the Echo do a bit of voice recognition without phoning home [arstechnica]. I mean, it'll still phone home, obviously. Google's bringing the "Stories" format (think: Snapchat, Instagram) to search results [theverge]. Microsoft's got a little post on the future of decentralized identities and the blockchain [cloudblogs.microsoft]. Speaking of futuristic stuff. Proper data ownership, fewer hacks, uninterrupted service and, of course, blockchains: Welcome to the web 3.0 [medium/@matteozago]. Idea: Slack is bad for companies/people: [abe-winter]. Now You're Talking My Language Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) The brain uses chaos to save you from chaos [nautil.us]. Thanks for nothing, brain. A new language - the kind you talk and write with, not the kind you program with - has been discovered in Malaysia [smithsonianmag]. Today in things that exist: A drone camera that will follow you automatically [youtube/skydio]. Right now this is great, but I think we all know where the flying camera thing is going. (Killer robots. It's always killer robots.) Snapchat maps are now available on desktop browsers [map.snapchat]. This appeals to the narrow sliver of audience who prefer the desktop but are still keen on Snap Maps. The three of us in that group are thrilled! A site that'll tell you where Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, launched last week, is right now [whereisroadster]. In space, obviously! Finally, this picture of a single atom won a national photography competition [petapixel]. That link had the best images I could find, including helpful arrow pointing out the atom. There's your mid-week Versioning - I'll have some more for ya tomorrow. Expect it to be mainly Snaps from all across the world! I'm kidding. I want that to be clear. Curated by Adam

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