📝 Issue #314: The UX of AI, Essential Design Trends, Variable Fonts, Freelance Tools for 2018, and more…

View this newsletter online Unsubscribe NEWSLETTER ISSUE #314 FEBRUARY 1, 2018 Save 15% on stunning images at Shutterstock Power your creativity with remarkable royalty-free images. Sign up to any image plan now and save 15%. Use code WDD15 at checkout. Start saving now - AD The Secret Heroes of UX Design Like masked avengers, leaping from the shadows to defend the web—disguised only by an eye mask and a change of hairstyle—the secret heroes of UX Design, are well known but often overlooked. This excellent roundup celebrates the best of UX, from progress tracking, to micro-copy, it's a must-read for all digital designers. Using Variable Fonts in the Real World Web typography is on the verge of a revolution with the advent of variable fonts. Variable fonts are a single file that packs in all the data you need for almost infinite style and weight variations. Browser support is at 60%, but as Clearleft discovered when using variable fonts for the Ampersand Conference website, not all support is equal. Every (Major) AR Development Platform 2018 could be the year of augmented reality. AR is—unlike the ring-fenced experience of VR—a progressive enhancement that requires little new technology. There are five major AR platforms, and different options are better for design agencies, others are better for coders. This article takes an in-depth look at the pros and cons of all the options. Confessions of a UX Designer Have you ever skipped the research on a design project? Or fallen in love with a sweet UI animation? Or worn every professional hat you owned? If so, perhaps you too have sinned. David O. Andersen takes a close look at his own failings, questions his process, and offers some informed advice to aspiring UX designers. 3 Essential Design Trends, February 2018 We're well into 2018 now, and all those design predictions from New Year are starting to get tested. Our roundup of the biggest trends in web design this month looks at circle motifs, split screen user interfaces, and white text on a dark background. Expertly selected, these are the design elements you need to know for February. Smarter Time Smarter Time is a brand new startup that wants to make you a happier, more productive person. The new app, which is only available for Android (thanks to iOS' restrictive security) monitors your location, compares it to your previous activities, and makes a guess at what you're doing. With a little training, it's an excellent tool. The King vs. Pawn Game of UI Design When you strip anything down to its core, whether that be a game of chess, or a user interface, everything you learn is a universal principle. We can take that approach to strip a UI back to its fundamentals, and develop the foundations of an entire design system using a simple button; Erik Kennedy explains how. The UX of AI AI is developing rapidly, with advances being made everyday. But unless AI remains rooted in human experience, there is no guarantee that its spread will benefit our lives. Using what they term "human-centered machine learning" Google is exploring how AI can leverage its unique abilities and still focus on human needs. Essential Freelance Tools for 2018 If 2018 is the year you're going to start freelancing, or if you've been freelancing for a while but need a bit of help keeping on top of the role, then you should check out this guide to the 5 Essential Freelancer Tools for 2018, covering everything from invoicing, to proposal software, to customer relationship management solutions. Want more cool news? Click here to automatically subscribe to WebdesignerNews... Go to WebdesignerDepot.com  |  About  |  Disclaimer  |  Advertising  |  Deals  |  Contact Has this newsletter been forwarded to you? Subscribe to the WDD newsletter Find us on Facebook   |   Follow us on Twitter   |   RSS Feed

 

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#223: Node Clinic Is A Performance Toolkit for Node Devs

This week's Node news Read this e-mail on the Web Node Weekly February 1, 2018  #223 Conor O'Neill Node Clinic: A Performance Toolkit for Node Developers Clinic helps you investigate and resolve performance issues in your Node apps. The Doctor tool can show you what is wrong and point you to other tools to solve the issue. Strapi Testing npm Packages Before Release with Verdaccio and Ngrok Ensuring your npm package works as expected after publishing can be tricky, but Verdaccio lets you run your own local npm registry, making testing easier. Codeship   Sponsor eBook: Using Docker and Codeship for Node.js Development Learn how to develop and test a Node.js app with Docker compose and how to further create a CI/CD pipeline for your app using Codeship. Mark Moffat expressCart: A Node Shopping Cart with Stripe and PayPal Payments A fully-functioning Node-powered e-commerce app that can take payments. Based around Express and MongoDB (psst, we’re launching a MongoDB newsletter soon..) Node.js repo / Michaël Zasso WHATWG URL API to be Exposed Globally in Node 10.x So rather than requiring in url and using new url.URL(...), we’ll just be able to go new URL(...). Neat. Node.js Foundation An Intro to the Node.js Community Committee The Community Committee takes care of the outward facing, community side of the Node project, helping it to grow and prosper. Here are their plans for 2018. Nick O'Leary Video: Wiring the Internet of Things with 'Node-RED' Node-RED is a mature Node.js-powered visual tool for wiring together IoT systems, sensors, APIs, etc. Jobs Full Stack JavaScript Developer (near Amsterdam) Great opportunity for a talented JavaScript Developer to join our international team and work on innovative Node.js based business solutions.  Quasset Looking for a Job at a Company That Prioritizes Node? Try Vettery and we’ll connect you directly with thousands of companies looking for talented back-end devs. Vettery In Brief Node v9.5.0 (Current) Released news Not a major release, just a variety of tweaks. Node.js Foundation Node Summit Call for Papers Now Open news Wanna speak? It takes place this July 23-25 in San Francisco. Node Summit MongoDB Weekly: We're Launching a MongoDB Newsletter news Enjoy Node Weekly and use MongoDB? Check out our newest title. Cooperpress Monitor Node.js Application Performance with Datadog. Try it Free  Datadog   Sponsor Debugging Node Without Restarting Processes tutorial Carl Vitullo How to Build a Simple Web Server with Node tutorial SitePoint An Introduction to Using Redis as a JSON Store with Node tutorial Jose Miguel Colella Creating a GraphQL Server with Express tutorial video Sebastian Eschweiler Setting Up Flow, Prettier, and Nodemon with Node video AJ Sheff Modernizing Node.js with Idiomatic JavaScript opinion Peter Marshall and Arunesh Chandra Get Your Node Server Running In Seconds with $100 Credit  DigitalOcean   Sponsor Cliffy: A Framework for Interactive CLIs code .. as in REPL-type environments. It’s not an argv parser. Andrew James Youngwerth Fawn: Promise-Based Library for Transactions in MongoDB code Emmanuel Olaojo jsdom-worker: Use Web Workers in Jest / JSDOM code Jason Miller The Lounge: A Self-Hosted Web IRC Client Built with Node code The Lounge fx: A Command-Line JSON Processing Tool code Anton Medvedev Node Weekly is curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooperpress. Want to sponsor an issue? See our media kit. Want to post a job? E-mail us or use our self-serve system. Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web © Cooperpress Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Email policy Privacy policy

#384: Rails 5.2 RC1, Passenger 5.2, and yield_self goodies

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 384 — February 1, 2018 David Heinemeier Hansson Rails 5.2 Release Candidate 1 Released The beta period is over and we’re headed for final release with Rails 5.2 introducing Active Storage, the Redis Cache Store, HTTP/2 Early Hints, and more. Evil Martians Rails 5.2 Tutorial: Active Storage and Beyond Not just interested in the news of the release (above)? This post covers much more including Active Storage, credentials, the Current singleton, CSP configuration, and Bootsnap. Phusion Passenger 5.2 Released: The Ruby (and More) App Server Features a major refactoring of configuration option handling which now supports per application options. Ruby 2.5 support has also improved. Codeship  Sponsored eBook: Using Docker and Codeship for Ruby Development Learn how to develop and test a Ruby app with Docker compose and how to further create a CI/CD pipeline for your app using Codeship. Netflix Technology Blog Fast JSON API Serialization with Rails Netflix is open sourcing a Fast JSON API gem which boasts 25 times faster serialization than Active Model Serializer. Lazarus Lazaridis How to Build a Simple GTK+ ToDo Desktop App A very thorough walkthrough of building a Linux desktop app with Ruby. Victor Shepelev yield_self Is More Awesome Than You Think.. Several examples of Ruby 2.5’s all-new yield_self cleaning up older, uglier blocks of code. Julia Evans Spying on a Ruby Process's Memory Allocations Scrappy and fascinating work digging into Ruby processes from ‘behind the scenes’. Jobs Gusto Is Hiring Great Rails Engineers (SF or Denver)Join us to help thousands of small businesses run payroll and offer health benefits, letting them focus on what they do best. Gusto Ruby Developer at Econify (New York, NY)We’re currently seeking a senior Ruby developer to work on Rails applications both new and old. Come join a great team. econify Looking for a Job at a Company That Prioritizes Ruby?Try Vettery and we’ll connect you directly with thousands of companies looking for talented back-end devs. Vettery In brief Ruby Together's 2017 Year End Update news .. including info on how they spent their $284k budget.  Ruby Together Four Important Metrics for Continuous Delivery    GoCD  Sponsored How to Switch From Pow to Puma for Local Development tutorial It’s time to move on, so this is a strongly recommended move.  Barry Woolgar Using Ruby 2.5's New Thread#fetch Method tutorial  Atul Bhosale Making an SSL Proxy for 'Insecure' Content with Ruby and NGINX tutorial A way to handle warnings about insecure images and other content.  Paweł Urbanek Dockerizing a Rails App tutorial First in a series on deploying a Rails app to AWS using Docker.  Bradley Price Goodbye Secrets. Welcome Credentials tutorial Rails 5.2 adds credentials in lieu of secrets making the workflow much simpler.  Stefan Wintermeyer Understanding Redux Concepts by Implementing Them in Ruby tutorial Redux uses concepts like reducers, dispatching actions, and listeners to manage a single state object.  Josef Strzibny Approaches to API Versioning with Rails tutorial  Alexey Suhoviy Postgres Tip: Working With Dates Using the EXTRACT Function tutorial  Karol Galanciak Spin Up a Ruby App Server in Seconds with a Free $100 Credit tools Ruby on Rails one-click image with DigitalOcean lets you to deploy in seconds. Try it now.  DigitalOcean  Sponsored Rubrowser: A Ruby Code Dependency Graph Interactive Visualizer tools  Emad Elsaid Localer: A Tool to Automatically Detect Missing i18n Translations tools  Andrey Deryabin There's a Bug in your Ruby Code. Fix it tools  Sentry  Sponsored TTY: The Ruby Terminal Apps Toolkit code An ecosystem of gems for building elegant command line apps.  Piotr Murach Gutentag: A Simple, Solid Tagging Extension for ActiveRecord code .. and already tested with Rails 5.2.0rc1 even.  Pat Allan Curated by Peter Cooper and Glenn Goodrich, and published by Cooperpress. Send feedback by simply replying to this mail. Want to sponsor an issue? See our media kit. Want to post a job? Email us or use our self-serve system. Stop getting Ruby Weekly | Change email address | Read this issue on the Web © Cooperpress Ltd, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Email policy Privacy policy

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No Images? Click here Appreciating the Vue Front-end A guide to recreating the GitHub contribution graph using CSS Grid [bitsofco.de]. A proof of concept for creating website analytics/tracking with CSS, no JavaScript needed [github/jbtronics]. How and when to support old browsers How to design a good download link [css-tricks]. SVGator [svgator] makes it easy to animate SVGs. "10 things I love about Vue Curated links for help building a Progressive Web App [dev].   Mine Sweeper Mobile/back-end/programming Swiper [github/nolimits4web] is a free mobile touch slider with great transitions and native behavior. Portier [portier.github] is an email-based, passwordless authentication that you can host yourself. A look at the Rubymine IDE, useful for Ruby and Rails development [sitepoint]. Sorry, yesterday’s edition somehow didn’t have a promised link in it. As Daft Punk would say: One More Time. Here, again is a guide to automated testing with the Web Driver API [smashingmagazine]. A GraphQL primer and a look at the evolution of API design [smashingmagazine]. How to go from zero to a Kubernetes cluster, real quick [blog.alexellis]. An open source implementation of the AlphaGoZero algorithm [github/tensorflow]. The 12 types of DDoS attacks about which you should know [incapsula]. Issues with the upcoming iOS 11.3 implementation of PWAs [medium/@firt].     Pigments in a Blanket Design/UX/product Pigment [pigment.shapefactory] lets you check out a wide variety of colors using lighting and pigment. Also, if you just scroll quickly, the bright colors moving quickly will wake you up! Some free cryptocurrency icons [designmodo]. A hacky, useful way of building complex data tables in Sketch [medium/sketch-app-sources]. A great piece on striking the balance between larger company goals and incremental product improvements [hackernoon].   Swipe Out News/business Facebook’s lost daily active users in the United States and Canada for the first time ever [recode]. And that’s even with all the fake ones! Unrelated to the previous story, I’m sure: if you haven’t used the service in a while, Facebook’s now going to great - slightly phishy? - lengths to bring you back [bloomberg]. Tinder can no longer force older users to pay more for Pro features [arstechnica]. That seems fair: the company shouldn’t practice age discrimination, that’s really up to the users. Ikea just bought TaskRabbit [recode]. Which is weird, do they know they could’ve just contracted them? The Venezuelan government certainly is modernizing. And by “modernizing”, I mean it’s doing an Ethereum token sale to support its new cryptocurrency [motherboard.vice]. Hackers are now able to exploit gas stations [motherboard.vice]. Want to hack stuff but lack the knowhow? No worries, this tool has your back [motherboard.vice]. Memory AI [timelyapp] offers fully automated time-tracking for freelancers.   A Whale of a Time Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) Switchboard [switchboardaudio] turns your phone into an intercom. Why you forget the books you read [theatlantic]. Not the newsletters though, right?! If you’ve ever wanted to travel the world - by foot, even - Vendenskortet is your best bet [atlastobscura]. It’s a walkable map of the world, about the size of a football field. I love when stuff is the size of a football field! Especially a football field-sized football field. Finally, listen to this orca doing a pretty good job of imitating human speech. Also, making fart noises [motherboard.vice].         There it is, Versioning for another day! Like an orca farting, an impressive and entertaining specimen! First thing: thank you so so so much for everyone who helped out by filling in the survey yesterday. You’re all legends and many of your responses were heart-warming and/or hilarious. We’re kinda halfway through the transition to the new platform (boring launch stuff to sort through), so I sent this from the old service BUT you can view the online, Substack version of the newsletter here. Cool huh? We’re still decorating and unpacking, but the bones of the place are excellent, and it’s got a nice feel to it. Great North-facing windows, too. More on this as we properly move in! I’ll have some more for you tomorrow! Curated by Adam. Wait, why am I here, what is this?   You're receiving this email because you've signed up for Versioning, SitePoint's daily email for web developers. Manage your preferences to stop receiving Versioning, or unsubscribe from all SitePoint emails below.   Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

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