Monday, February 5, 2018

The Phantom Menace

The One Where Adam Tries to Write a Haiku

(Mr Burns voice) Xcell-ent…

Front-end

A guide to debugging JavaScript with the new Firefox JS debugger [smashingmagazine].

An intro to React Scope, a Chrome extension that lets you check out a hierarchical view of a dev's React components [levelup.gitconnected].

ECMAScript 2018's final feature set includes asynchronous iteration, rest/spread properties, a lifting of the template literal restriction, other stuff [2ality].

A guide to building a modal component with Vue [alligator].

xcell [github/tomazy] is a tiny lil library for building reactive, spreadsheet-like calculations in JavaScript.

ijk [github/lukejacksonn] transforms arrays into virtual dom trees.

Surely You Jest

Mobile/back-end/programming

Fast JSON API [github/netflix] is Netflix's lightning fast, literally-named JSON:API serializer for Ruby objects.

jsdom-worker [github/developit] lets you use web workers in Jest.

Docusaurus [docusaurus] offers easy to maintain documentation websites.

Cliffy [github/drew-y] is a tool for making command line interfaces.

And typy [npmjs] is a type-checking library for JavaScript.

How to import data in Amazon Redshift using the COPY command [sitepoint].

Smashing Magazine used their own recent experience moving from WordPress to Netlify as the basis for an interesting article about converting a WordPress site into a static website by routing its dynamic content through a CDN [smashingmagazine].

Like Poetry

Design/UX/product

A tool called Haiku
For animating UIs
Design, dev, jointly

8 places to find micro-gigs for designers [webdesignerdepot]. Not a Honey I Shrunk the Kids thing, I promise you.

4 non-weird tricks for fast image fills in Sketch [medium/ux-power-tools].

How copy docs can improve your design process [medium/dropbox-design].

Why your iOS app looks better in Sketch [medium/@nathangitter].

A Little Judgey

News/business

There's a new Flash 0-day and hackers are exploiting it [arstechnica].

The United Kingdom's digital mass surveillance regime is unlawful, a judge has ruled [theguardian].

YouTube's now going to add disclaimers on state-funded broadcasts [arstechnica]. Finally, propaganda is 100% impossible now!

Also, a pretty disturbing look at how YouTube's algorithm promotes divisive content and conspiracy videos [theguardian].

Cryptocurrency entrepreneurs are heading en masse to Puerto Rico, to remake an island still reeling from Hurricane Maria into a blockchain utopia [nytimes].

If you have an Alexa, and you watched the Super Bowl, you'll have noticed the ad, featuring people using the trigger phrase, didn't set it off. Here's how Amazon did it - using some of the techniques I'm sure hackers/prank callers will start to exploit [bloomberg].

This 2x2 matrix will tell you how likely it is that your industry will be disrupted and therefore how anxious you should be [hbr].

A tool for keeping track of your team's software spend [track.siftery].

Going Solo

Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)

The new dating requirement: consume all your partner's content [thedailybeast]. That all changes once you're married though, I promise you. Oh wait, I just realized my wife is subscribed to this newsletter! Dinner tonight will be awkward.

Scienticians discovered tens of thousands Mayan structures built more than a millenium ago. How did they find them? Shot fricken' lasers around wildly [nytimes]. AKA the best kind of science.

You can now hire Uber Bikes, for some reason [uber]. Only San Francisco right now, but the wheels are turning on this new and exciting chapter in Uber's existence.

Last week, amazing actor, improviser, comedian, well-dressed person Paul F. Tompkins posted a video of himself singing a theme song for Paul Thomas Anderson's new film Phantom ThreadThen his followers layered music on top and the whole thing was lovely [twitter/pftompkins]. Warning: this is a very catchy theme song. I had it in my head from Friday night to Saturday evening… Aaaaannd now it's back.

Lastly, THE HAN SOLO MOVIE HAS A TRAILER!!! Sorry, let me calm down a bit. So yeah, the Han Solo movie has a trailer, here it is if you didn't watch the Super Bowl [youtube/starwars]. The only thing I care about right now is Donald Glover's Lando cape and beard combo.


There's Versioning for Monday - I hope it found you well. I also hope the new platform is working well for you and the actual content is still good.

I'll be spending the intervening hours until we're in touch again doing launch-ey things. Including a Product Hunt launch! More on that tomorrow, obviously!

Finally today, thank you for all your support - both recently with the launch, and in general since this thing started. You're all legends!

Oh, and sorry about the Phantom Thread link! It's STILL in my head somehow.

Curated by Adam


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