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Front-end
First up, Rocket Validator [rocketvalidator] is a tool for quickly identifying accessibility and HTML markup issues with your site.
Modularscale [modularscale] is a handy little scale you can use when setting up sizing for any element, space or grid.
Slimer.js [slimerjs] is a scriptable browser for devs, allowing you to interact with a page - your page, for example - through an external JavaScript script.
An intro to the newly-released Webpack 4 [medium/webpack].
A guide to an elegant JS pattern: "receive an object, return an object" [medium.freecodecamp].
Dan Abramov delivers a sneak peek video discussing what's to come beyond React 16 [reactjs].
And it's now much easier to trace memory leaks with Chrome DevTools [v8project].
Talk the Talk
Mobile/back-end/programming
Refined GitHub [github/sindresorhus] is a browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface.
Manageable, measurable and traceable - Pandora.ja [midwayjs] is a new Node.js app manager that sounds pretty decent.
Queryparser [eng.uber] is an open source tool for all your SQL parsing needs.
A quick guide to serverless development with an AWS Lambda Node function and a MongoDB database hosted in MongoDB Atlas [sitepoint].
3 approaches to replication in PostgreSQL [citrusdata].
A look at the rise of distributed SQL databases [crate].
How Troy Hunt made Pwned Passwords V2 very fast [troyhunt].
A practical intro to container terminology [developers.redhat].
Cloudy with a Chance of Cyan
Design/UX/product
How Wix handles Microcopy and UX writing [blog.prototypr].
7 easy ways to cheat at design [medium/refactoring-ui]. Not in an unethical way, just by being clever, rather than talented. I'm neither clever nor talented, so I would prefer the unethical way.
A look at the (new, to me) world of color forecasting [nytimes].
A Chrome extension for better working in Figma in low-light conditions [papertiger].
A look at some of the new button press and adaptive features of Flinto 25 [flinto].
Amazon Go Away
News/business
A look at the rise of China as a "digital totalitarian state" [washingtonpost]. Fun read!
A look at a VR simulation designed to allow sexual assault survivors to confront an attacker [motherbord.vice]. (A warning that the article and video do go into examples of such assault and the simulation idea.)
Lots of people don't want Amazon to set up its second headquarters in their city [motherboard.vice].
Henry Zhu has left Adobe and is now working full time on Babel and open source projects: here's his Patreon [patreon].
Dropbox and Google Cloud are now a bit more integrated [blogs.dropbox].
Heat Check
Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)
While I was away, I made a few changes to my digital device usage, aimed at giving me more power over my attention! For that I used this, the Center for Humane Tech's guide [humanetech]. Good luck and please share anything else that's worked well for you.
Related: this is a good guide to using Facebook without using the News Feed [motherboard.vice], and therefore avoiding most of the network's downsides.
A trailer for Farenheit 451, the upcoming HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic (bleak) novel [youtube/HBO].
Finally: "Listen to your body: Your migraines are podcasts trying to be produced." Goob [botnik] is what happens when you train a machine learning algorithm on Gwneth Paltrow's Goop magazine. Let's never do this again.
So I'm back! I hope you've all been good to Joel while I've been away. I went to New Zealand, where every bit of scenery was amazing, the food and drink was all delicious, and I saw multiple people I love get married - often to each other. So a fairly upbeat trip, I guess.
But now I'm back things are still upbeat: I was very happy to see more of you have joined the Versioning crew - we're up to more than 250 now! As the little reminder above says, those who haven't have 5 days until our introductory deal expires.
But you all have about 24 hours 'til I'll be back in your inbox with more great links! Or, as New Zealanders pronounce it: "lunks". See ya then!
Curated by Adam
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