Web Design: Boeing... Boeing.... Pwn

Today: generic fonts get displayed, kids get machine learning-ed, Sketch workflows get improved, Boeing gets pwned, Assange gets "pwned", Oscar Isaac gets slapped

So this week I'm trying something new! Head here to see a selection of links from this week's daily editions [versioning.substack].

Strike a Pose

Front-end

First up, how display: contents works [bitsofco.de].

How to build a PWA with Vue [telerik].

A deep dive into ES modules, via my favorite learning aid: cartoons [hack.mozilla].

Popmotion Pose [popmotion] is a motion system for HTML, SVG and React.

A piece on one of the two hard things in computer science: naming things. In this case: naming components [medium/eightshapes-llc].

Craig Hockenberry managed to get a generic system font into the CSS spec and eventually–and with a couple exceptions–into browsers [furbo].

Up to Scratch

Mobile/back-end/programming

Fellow kids, you can now learn machine learning in Scratch [machinelearningforkids].

Part one of a guide to creating a chat bot using Puppeteer [itnext].

Bruno Paz shares his Linux dev environment [dev.to].

I saw this tweet today and thought the link (and another link in the thread) looked extremely worthwhile:

Ives van Hoorne@CompuIves

Game Programming Patterns is a goldmine of best practices and patterns you can apply to web development as well. Recommended read: https://t.co/sSEPbxc80r https://t.co/9OrSsJgCca

March 28, 2018

First Contact

Design/UX/product

Ideas for improving your Sketch workflow [uxdesign].

A piece covering the user experience of contact forms [smashingmagazine].

Stab in the Dark

News/business

Boeing was hit by the WannaCry virus, but claims there was little impact [seattletimes].

Ecuador cut off Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's internet access, apparently after he broke a promise not to meddle in other nations' affairs [motherboard].

In addition to everything else, it turns out Facebook saved every video you filmed on the platform, including the ones you deleted [nymag].

Facebook's rolling out a few responses to this whole privacy/trust crisis: it's made its privacy tools easier to find, it's temporarily banned apps from joining its platform and, perhaps most importantly, it'll soon end its relationship with data brokers [thenextweb].

Huh. Snapchat is building out Facebook-like APIs that would let the service integrate with third-party apps [recode]. Good timing!

Weird, now we have missing dark matter. But apparently this will help us prove it exists [quantamagazine].

9 ways to make your SaaS customers hate you [indiehackers]. Now this is a tutorial I can get behind.

Operation Doomsday

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

Put parrots in your terminal! [github/hugomd].

If you want to delete Facebook, why not go further and poison your data first [motherboard.vice].

A machine learning model is learning to play Doom inside a dream [wor

Anil Dash talks through the parts of the web - view source, authoring, embedding - we've lost along the way [medium/@anildash].

Footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast may be 13,000 years old [phys].

The BBC is producing a four-part TV adaptation of China Mieville's The City and the City [bbc], and I am beyond hyped. If you haven't read the book, you should read the book. Or watch this, when it comes out.

Finally, a video of Carrie Fisher slapping Oscar Isaac in the face 27 times. For the Last Jedi, obviously, not just cos they had a scrap.

That'll do it for me today, and for this week. I'll be back next Tuesday for the daily update to paid members (back later in the week for free subscribers), so until then I hope your weekend is filled with plenty of joy. If you're celebrating Easter, I hope that joy comes via chocolate, hot cross buns, and parrots in your terminal.

If Easter isn't a thing for you, I hope you still enjoy those things, because why not?! See ya next week!