The iBoot's On the Other Foot

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What's the Big Idea? A request for input to make this (even?) better Now that the dust is starting to settle from the launch (thank you once again for all your support there) I'm turning my attention to making the newsletter amazing. To make these efforts more effective, I'd love to hear what you'd like. Please jump in here and check out some ideas I've had, and suggest your own! [sitepoint.typeform]. Vue and I Front-end First up, part one of a series on building games with React, Redux and SVG [auth0]. Do users actually like progressive image loading? Is it a good idea? It's complicated [smashingmagazine]. Font Awesome has been updated to version 5, built from scratch [github/fontawesome]. One design/dev team's epic design system journey: from Sketch, to react-sketchapp, to html-sketchapp, to html-skecthapp-cli: the evolution of the Seek team's design system [medium/seek-blog]. An interview with Evan You, the author of the Vue framework [blog.hackages]. Without Question Mobile/back-end/programming Perspective [github/jpmorganchase] is a streaming data visualization engine for JavaScript - useful for putting together user analytics right in the browser. caire [github/esimov] is a content-aware image resizing library in Go. osquery [osquery] lets you query devices using basic SQL commands. So turns out Wix Code has a database. An intro to that database [sitepoint]. A great way to learn about the blockchain is to build one in Node [developers.caffeina]. And an exhaustive guide to writing dockerfiles for Node [blog.hasura]. An intro to how Blackberry's BBM enterprise SDK can help you add some AI into your apps [sitepoint]. Good ol' Blackberry, eh? 12 best practices for user account management, authorization and password management [cloudplatform.googleblog]. You're the Voice Design/UX/product PixelSnap [getpixelsnap] is a tool for measuring everything on your screen. Some wisdom on designing a voice UI for your brand [fastcodesign]. And an argument that AI won't be replacing designers any time soon [webdesignerdepot]. Face to Face News/business The source code to (an old version of) iBoot, a key component of iOS was uploaded to GitHub [motherboard.vice]. It's either "the biggest leak in history" or not a big deal since not that many people are still on iOS 9. On another note, update your OS, people! Intel's sent out a new microcode update to combat Spectre, after the last one caused unwanted system reboots [arstechnica]. Reddit has banned communities sharing deepfakes, or neural network-generated porn [theverge]. A script for Black Mirror S5 was leaked. In it, Chinese police have special sunglasses, with facial-recognition tech, to easily find suspects among crowds [hongkongfp]. What's that? So that's not Black Mirror, that's a real thing? I seeeeee. How Chrome's adblocker will work [ctrl]. Electronic Frontier Foundation's founder John Perry Barlow died overnight. I'm currently listening to a lovely old This American Life podcast episode featuring him [thisamericanlife], via Casey Newton [twitter]. Makers and managers should have different schedules for maximum productivity/sanity [fs.blog]. Never the twain shall meet. Ceev [ceev] turns your LinkedIn into a resume. Once you've got that resume, StartupSift [startupsift] will check out startups to find you the best ones. Mallrats Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) What it's like to live in, and spy on, a smart home [gizmodo]. Monster Breeder [monsterbreeder] looks to be a very silly text-based game. I will always have time for these. It's a tough time to run a mall - they're closing all over the place. Can you do better? Bloomberg's American Mall game will let you find out [bloomberg]. (It's hard.) RAWG [rawg] is like Goodreads, or maybe IMDB, for games. Polygon set up a 24/7 stream of chill, lo-fi hip hop beats, interspered with Waluigi quotes, for some reason [polygon]. I'm not complaining! Some company named Substack is up on Product Hunt [producthunt]. Sounds like a weird industry, newsletters are just a phase. Finally, a guide to writing secure sites and apps - write no code, deploy nowhere [github/kelseyhightower]. I think Homer Simpson said it best: There's Versioning for another day! My smart bed tells me I didn't get enough sleep last night, so I'll be prioritizing that for sure. And by "my smart bed", I mean every single person who saw me today - including one child who pointed and laughed. Must have been too much SpaceX content yesterday. I'll have some more for you tomorrow, once I'm more refreshed. Actually, maybe I'll watch the SpaceX floating Tesla livestream for a few hours. Curated by Adam.

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