Today: so much content! Also, a text mask, keeping your mind on your money, design documentation advice, bleak news from all sides, Catan perspectives.Coming AttractionsContent in-progressHi! I thought I'd dedicate a bit of space up-top to sharing some stuff I'm working on that'll be in your inboxes and available to be absorbed via your eyeballs very soon!
Anyway, on with the show! Number One with a BulletFront-endFirst up, an intro to Firefox's new Accessibility Inspector, part of the browser's dev tools [marcozehe]. Some good info on CSS bullet list style [kolosek]. Learn JavaScript via puzzles and quizzes, in iOS app Grasshopper [grasshopper.codes]. That's the name of the app, I wasn't calling you grasshopper, obviously. Text Mask [github/text-mask] is an input mask for forms, useful for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, JavaScript. An intro to Higher Order Components in React [css-tricks]. A Nod's as Good as a WinkMobile/back-end /programmingAn immutable library in JavaScript for working with monetary values [github/sarahdayan]. Calibre CLI [building.calibreapp] is a new CLI app that will monitor performance, check performance metrics following a deployment, and work alongside your continuous integration set-up. nod [github/diegohaz] is a Node module generator/boilerplate. FoundationDB [github/apple] is Apple's distributed database for handling large volumes of unstructured data across server clusters. Feather [github/lukakerr] is a little macOS tool for checking for regular expression pattern matches. A tutorial for structuring Node projects [blog.codeship]. Woah, TwinGAN [github/jerryli27] is a machine learning library that'll let you do things like convert a photo to an anime drawing. Size MattersDesign/UX/productAn intro to Flawless, an app for comparing mock-ups with a dev's coded interpretation, removing the need for a back-and-forth [blog.prototypr]. 10 principles for good design documentation [medium/the-versatile-designer]. A quick tip for resizing mockups in Photoshop [medium/@chernushevich]. Talk the TalkNews/businessIn some cases, knock-off Chrome ad-blocking extensions were actually malware [motherboard.vice]. Would you like to feel scared about how much Peter Thiel's company Palantir knows about you? Have I got the article for you!? [bloomberg] Facebook's actually going to reduce its exposure to Europe's GDPR. Rather than the current situation, where all users are governed under terms of service agreed with company headquarters in Ireland (it's a tax thing), next month all non-European Facebook members (1.5 billion people) will instead be governed by United States privacy laws [reuters]. Those will be more lenient than the EU. Seems legit and I definitely don't think FB should explain themselves at length. If you're still feeling kinda positive after those, this episode of Vox's (quite good, actually) Today, Explained podcast [art19] explains how the new Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act may (will) kinda break the internet by making it harder for smaller sites to avoid being sued into nonexistence. Also: Cloudflare says it was quite a bad bill [motherboard.vice]. Google has a new idea for messaging on Android: Chat [theverge]. It's not really an app, it's more a new carrier-level service that adds features like group messages, high-quality media, and read receipts to texts. One thing it doesn't add: end-to-end encryption. An AI is being trained to write news free of bias [singularityhub]. AI researchers created a self-replicating neural network [thenewstack]. Should I make a Terminator reference? Do I even need to bother at this point? Proposal: don't let your kids use apps [fastcodesign]. Catan Hardly WaitEverything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)Alexa Blueprints [blueprints.amazon] is a new way to write Amazon Alexa skills without needing to know any code at all. A funny, sweary, rant about how awful React is [twitter]. A diary of a Settler of Catan [mcsweeneys]. This is lovely: a neural network generated a bunch of knitting patterns, then people knitted them [aiweirdness]. Finally, here's a pdf that, if printed, would coat a square-kilometer in black rectangles [motherboard.vice]. Maybe don't print it? Just a thought. Phew, a big one today! I'll take the rest of the weekend off, I think. Might do some knitting. If you're keen to peep any of the links I shared in member-only editions, a reminder that this Twitter account exists and will feature a bunch of them! Oh, one more link actually, in case you missed it yesterday - check out my interview on IndieHackers, covering the launch of this little thing. It was fun and it came out very well, I think. If you wanna share widely and generally be nice I would not be upset with that. Anyway! All from me, see ya next week!
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