Today: Point and React; Move Swifter; Move on up; Too much reverb; and Apple emoji search is 👎There Will Be Blood: 4 Weekend ReadsA new sneak-peak inside Theranos [wired]. An oral history of the 1996 Microsoft Antitrust lawsuit [theringer]. Federico Viticci's account of how he began a "second life", via the judicious use of technology [macstories]. Saber RattlingFront-endFirst up, React now has support for pointer events [reactjs]. Animation platform GSAP version 2.0.0 has been released [greensock] LagRadar [github/mobz] is a little radar for keeping track of framerate lag. ↪️ via Louis Lazaris. Saber.js [github/egoist] is a minimalistic framework for building static sites in Vue. How to tell PWA users there's a new version of the app available, via popup [deanhume]. Edge is still the most power-efficient browser on Windows, though Chrome's getting there [arstechnica]. You Work Your Way, I'll Work MineBack-end/programming/mobile10 quick Swift tips [hackingwithswift]. workway [github/webreflection] is a general purpose, web worker-driven namespace exporter. Firefox can now block website notification requests [techcrunch]. An intro to AutoML, a cloud suit of machine learning tools from Google [towardsdatascience], still alpha stage, but worth understanding at a high-level at least. Need to prioritize getting a tough bug addressed? Wait for the CEO to encounter it–that'll get things moving, and let you discover weird things in the process [medium/@fagnerbrack]. High BrowDesign/UX/productA guide to 'elevation' in Material Design [material]. A collection of tools to create cool backgrounds easily [coolbackgrounds]. 3 rapid prototyping exercises that'll help improve your UX skillz [uxdesign]. Great Scott!News/businessAn Amazon Echo sent a recording of a conversation to a user's contact. Here's Amazon's explanation [recode]. Taking the whole "echo" nomenclature a tad far, no? Starting today, all election-related and political advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the United States must be clearly labelled, including a line indicating who paid for them [newsroom.fb]. There must also be links to information on who saw them and how much was spent on them. Oh, and someone booking such an ad must be in the United States. Also, Twitter will get round to doing some similar stuff in the summer [theverge]. The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report into the fatal March crash of a self-driving Uber car. Looks like the sensors on the car worked fine, and the problem was with the software [arstechnica]. The software misidentified the pedestrian, then determined an emergency brake was required: the software can't use the brake, and can't alert the operator. Damning. A severely injured worker is suing Tesla for allegedly putting him in harm's way [revealnews]. Gamers involved in a "swatting" death have been indicted [arstechnica]. The Department of Justice is now probing the world of Bitcoin trading [arstechnica]. Good luck with that! Gatsby, the open source React static site generator, is now Gatsby Inc, a start-up focused on bringing Gatsby custom-build cloud support [thenewstack]. It's raised US $3.8 million in an initial seed round [twitter]. Great! Looks like Essential, the new phone company from the creator of Android, is considering a sale [bloomberg]. The development of their new smartphone is also cancelled. It does feel like the company name was asking for trouble. Apple won US $539 million from Samsung in the retrial of the long-running patent infringement case [bloomberg]. Apple wanted a billion, whereas Samsung suggested $28 million. I guess that's about halfway? Dallas Mavericks power forward (NBA, don't worry) Harrison Barnes interviewed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey [theplayerstribune]. You might say it was a real "slam dunk", har har har. Joking aside, it was pretty good. History Never RepeatsEverything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)Obscura 2 [itunes.apple] looks like a veerrrrry nice little iOS camera app. Apple rejected the iOS version of Steam Link, Valve's app for streaming games from PCs on the same network [arstechnica]. Newsflash: Apple emoji search SUCKS [jeremyburge]. A Solo review that I must admit I haven't read because I want to see the film fresh [arstechnica]. I didn't technically read it, but I did a search for the word "cape" in that article and didn't see anything. See what your Twitter timeline would've looked like 10 years ago (if you followed the same people then as you do now) [twitter]. Probably bad, but less bad? Finally, Today is GDPR Day everyone - the most wonderful time of the year! [So of course, everyone needs to update their own personal privacy policy. Here's a good example to follow [mcsweeneys]. There you go, Versioning for another week. I'll have some more for you next week, in either a daily or weekly form (the daily is quite good though, I must say). Until then, I hope you enjoy the break from GDPR emails, and await the inevitable flood of stories about all the companies which did a poor job of managing their GDPR responsibilities. Certainly fun times, no matter which way you slice it. See ya next week!
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