Today: weekend reads; Webpackery; A Vimtrospective; Designers + machine learning; Net neutrality rides again in California; and Time Magazine drones onCall Me? Maybe? Please?Weekend readsFirst up, how come no-one answers the phone anymore? [theatlantic] I'm just glad it's not just me that's getting voice-mailed all the time. I'm still reading this, but I will finish it because it's compelling: How an aspiring "it" girl tricked New York's party people[thecut]. One clue, money helped. Get inside the tortured mind of Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon [gq]. And a history of Star Wars fan fiction, and the beloved Han/Lando queer 'ship [polygon]. For me, fanfic has always been a galaxy far, far away, so this was very illuminating! Reach for the SkyFront-endFirst up, TypeScript 2.9 is out! [blogs.msdn]. cash [github/kenwheeler] is a very, very small jQuery alternative for modern browsers. And Create React App Parcel [github/sw-yx] lets you create React apps using Parcel instead of Webpack. Btw, those last two were via Web Tools Weekly [webtoolsweekly]. An overview of Reach Router, used to manage the focus of a React app on route transitions [reach]. Critters [github/googlechromelabs] is a Webpack plugin to inline critical CSS and lazy-load the rest. And prerender-loader [github/googlechromelabs] allows for painless, univeral pre-rendering for Webpack. Generate your own phyllotaxy, a word that roughly translates to "awesome, buzzy, spiralling pattern" (my translation) [pattern-school.glitch]. Home Sweet GNOMEBack-end/programming/mobileGNOME has moved to GitLab [about.gitlab]. How to automate and scrape the web with Chrome, Node and Puppeteer [codeburst]. How to share code between two iOS apps [blog.indoorway]. Engineer Matthias Endler reflects on a decade of using Vim [matthias-endler]. Via X-Team The 11 best programming fonts [itnext]. Radial, DudeDesign/UX/productRadial menus are actually kind of cool [blog.prototypr]. Machine learning for designers [medium/@drozzz]. Ideas for how Apple can make iOS and the Mac more accessible [macstories]. liePhone XNews/businessTicketfly's site was hacked, customer database taken [motherboard.vice]. California's Senate pass its own net neutrality bill 23-12 - it now goes to the state Assembly [theverge]. Google often uses Wikipedia for the info in its "featured snippets". Which is fine, until someone edits a page about, say, the California Republican Party to say it supports Nazism [motherboard.vice]. Just as a hypothetical example. (Swears in that link btw). Telegram says Apple hasn't let the company update their iOS app since Russian banned the app [9to5mac]. Security researchers have revealed Chrome and Firefox's implementation of CSS blend mode, added in 2016, may have allowed a malicious site to grab visitors' Facebook names and profile pics [arstechnica]. Updates to Chrome and Firefox have curbed the issue, but it's a scary reminder of the vulnerabilities that may come as browsers improve. Also, it's just a really clever attack! Tesla received negative reviews for the Model 3, focused on its poor braking distance. So it issued an over-the-air update that improved the car's performance. That's cool, but raises concerns about why the issue wasn't discovered during testing[arstechnica]. Next week is WWDC, the time of year Apple unveils the next iOS among other new other stuff. According to Bloomberg, you can expect awesome AR tech, and features to help you use your devices less [bloomberg]. Xiaomi's copy of the iPhone X is US $420 (nice…) and has an in-display fingerprint reader [arstechnica]. 9 out of 10 teens prefer YouTube [theverge]. Vermont with pay you US $10,000 to move there and work from home [work.qz]. Like, they won't employ you, but you'll get 10k plus whatever you make in your remote job. Beats the Fortress of SolitudeEverything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)The Incredibles' Super Home is on Zillow [zillow]. Marketing, but kinda funny, and it reminded me the Incredibles 2 is a thing! Meditation app Calm has produced a GDPR reading to fall asleep to [blog.calm]. The Longest Poem in the World [longestpoemintheworld] is a continuous stream of tweets that rhyme. It's kind of overwhelming. Via the excellent newsletter Bizzarro Devs. An e-ink typewriter [kickstarter]. Finally, for no reason other than the fact that it's awesome - here's The Roots' Black Thought's new album [human-resources.lnk]. There you have it, Versioning for another week. A big week on the horizon next week, I'm very much looking forward to it. I just hope my new typewriter arrives in time! I hope the new plan for Versioning is exciting to you - please let me know which topics you'd like me to cover. Also, any feedback at all. See ya next time!
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