Dark Souls
Front-end
First up, Chrome 65 is out - A video introducing some of its new features: CSS Paint API, Server Timing API, and CSS display: contents [youtube/googlechromedevelopers].
How to create "knockout" text with CSS [css-tricks]. "Knockout" refers to a look where the text appears to be cut out from an element to reveal a background.
How to recreate a cool mirror effect, seen in the opening credits of Netflix's Dark [itnext].
How one company adopted CSS Grid at scale [julian]. Thanks to Julian for sending that one through!
DOM to image [github/tsayen] turns any DOM node into an SVG or PNG/JPEG image, via Canvas.
See Right Through You
Mobile/back-end/programming
Via a REST API and JavaScript and PHP libraries, Munt [getmunt] will let your site accept multiple cryptocurrencies.
How to use git-sizer to see how big your Git repo is [blog.github].
Some practical performance benchmarks for Go [stackimpact].
A guide to building a Telegram bot with Laravel and BotMan [scotch].
Jeremy Keith created the minimum viable service worker [adactio].
Xray [github/atom] is an experimental Atom-based text editor, built by the Atom team as a way to test new ideas without affecting how Atom works. One to keep an eye on, I would've thought.
Flowdown
Design/UX/product
Waterfall, agile, design sprints… how UX process methodology evolved [uxplanet].
A guide to designing for edge-cases [webdesignerdepot].
Overflow [overflow] is a tool for turning designs into playable user flow diagrams.
A Rocky Rhode
News/business
Google's providing its AI tech to the US military for use in drone strikes [gizmodo]. Not for combat - for image analysis - but lots of employees are outraged anyway.
A bug in the Exim message transfer agent, widely used for email, puts about 400,000 servers around the world at risk [devco].
Want access to someone's locked-down Windows computer? Just ask Cortana [motherboard.vice]. See, voice assistants are useful!
Washington passed a net neutrality law, setting the state up for a battle with the Federal Communications Commission [motherboard.vice].
And Rhode Island legislators are looking at forcing ISPs to implement a default ban on adult content - with a US $20 one-time fee to unblock it [arstechnica]. They got the idea, minus the unblocking bit, from literally everybody's parents.
Uber's self-driving trucks are doing actual work [techcrunch]. Humans are still involved for the short-haul bits, but this is a thing to pay attention to.
The US midterm elections will (maybe? probably? ) be the stage for more election meddling [buzzfeed].
Some Silicon Valley tech leaders are pretty keen to leave Silicon Valley [nytimes]. Too many tech leaders there, probably.
AI Don't Believe You
Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)
A woman seeking Instagram stardom instead found herself US $10,000 in debt [nypost], after buying luxury items and going on luxury holidays. A reminder that everyone's social media presence is completely fake all the time.
An interview with two members of the team behind Alto's Odyssey (and Alto's Adventure [macstories]. Alto's Odyssey was my go-to airport time killer recently, it is very, very good.
The trailer for Netflix's Lost In Space TV series reboot is good [youtube/netflix]. Needs more Matt LeBlanc though.
A New Zealand medical AI seems a little too good to be true [thespinoff].
While we're talking about weird kiwi stuff, the journalist who wrote that article is renowned for finding weird, compelling stories. Exhibit A: Tickled [youtube/magnoliapictures], a documentary about competitive endurance tickling. It's actually weirder than it sounds.
Finally, a dangerously good Twitter thread featuring replies to the question, "What is your all-time personal #1 YouTube video to share with other people?" [twitter]. Just be careful with this one, it sucked up a lot of my afternoon.
I'll be back tomorrow, or an AI posing as me will be. Or, maybe I'll pretend to be an AI, and then pretend that AI is posing as me. It's complicated, I haven't settled on a final plan yet. Someone will be back tomorrow, anyway.
Curated by Adam
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