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	Try a free 14-day subscription Hey! Adam again, coming at you with an update on the plan for subscribers in July. As you may remember, Versioning now covers a different subject in-depth every month. In June, that subject was Modern JavaScript. In July, it will be Design Systems and Living Styleguides. Subscribers get access to all the content already released, plus the July content as it comes through. View in Browser Try a free 14-day subscription Hey! Adam again, coming at you with an update on the plan for subscribers in July. As you may remember, Versioning now covers a different subject in-depth every month. In June, that subject was Modern JavaScript. In July, it will be Design Systems and Living Styleguides. Subscribers get access to all the content already released, plus the July content as it comes through. If you subscribe, you'll receive: A daily email keeping you updated on the wider world of the web Constantly growing collections of important theme-specific content Relevant interviews with the best in the game At the end of the month, you'll get the full collection of content in a downloadable ebook, so you can refer back to it once you're putting the material into practice in your own work You'll also get great, relevant downloadable content from SitePoint, and the best deals on other vital products to help you take your knowledge even further Subscribe now Let's take a closer look at the plan: June was focused on Modern JavaScript covered JavaScript frameworks, like React and Angular, GraphQL, React Native and Vue Native, Electron, functional JavaScript and plenty more. There were interviews with PayPal full-stack JavaScript dev, teacher and Google Developer Expert Kent C. Dodds, CodePen and CSS Tricks founder Chris Coyier and pre-eminent JavaScript teacher Wes Bos, the constantly updated collection of links and three free SitePoint books. That'll be packaged up as an ebook to keep, but even before that, all of this is still available on the Substack platform for new subscribers! July will be focused on design systems and living styleguides. Both form part of a new movement towards designers and developers establishing rules designed to make collaboration easier, improve design quality, and generally increase sanity levels. Think: building with Lego blocks vs. clay. This is exciting stuff, I'm looking forward to learning more. Subscribe now It'll be fun, it'll be useful, it'll be yours to keep. Here's what's on the way beyond July: August - Kubernetes, Containers and Microservices, September - Modern CSS, October - AI/Machine Learning, November - Blockchain Development and DApps I'll be learning this stuff too. I'm no expert in any one area, and there are a few areas, so this is a way for us both to improve our knowledge and skills in the most important web subjects - this is the beginning of a beautiful partnership! If you're keen, sign up here or hit the button below - the first 14 days are free, after that the membership will be either $7 per month, or $70 for a year (two months free!) Subscribe now I hope to see you Monday and beyond as we learn to play Legos together! Subscribe to get the updates you've been missing: Jun 29 In Space, No-one Can Hear You Say "Eww, That's Gross" Jun 29 Odd Future | Future JavaScipt Jun 28 This Is 40 Subscribe © 2018 Adam Roberts | SitePoint You are receiving this email because you subscribe to Versioning To unsubscribe from email, click here. Mailing Address: PO Box 1115 Collingwood VIC 3066 Australia Powered by Substack

Hacker Newsletter #409

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. //Peter Drucker

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Quick programming note - there won't be an issue next week. Hope everyone here in the U.S. of A. has a great Fourth (and for everyone else... a wonderful fourth as well)! –kale #Favorites Microsoft Azure - Bring your startup's ideas to life with a free account //microsoft sponsored The Machine Fired Me //idiallo comments→ Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard //ifixit comments→ Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall //thehustle comments→ Facebook's patents show a commitment to collecting personal information //nytimes comments→ The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities //theintercept comments→ Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector //mozilla comments→ The Legend of Nintendo //bloomberg comments→ Bootstrapping an Online Fabric Shop and Growing to $20k per month //starterstory comments→ Flights to Rome //moovellab comments→ A closer look at Google Duplex //techcrunch comments→ Break down of a C64 demo effect //github comments→ What would happen if you had a golf ball that doubled in density once an hour? //quora comments→ Looking for other newsletters to subscribe to? Smashing Magazine put out a great list. #Ask HN What are the things that you have automated in your personal life? Have you shipped anything serious with a "serverless" architecture? #Show HN Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js //github comments→ Mobile Airbag Deploy When Device Is Dropped //imgur comments→ Shotsnapp – Create beautiful device mockup presentation //shotsnapp comments→ Muzoti – Algorithmic Music with Web Audio/Midi and VueJS //muzoti comments→ #Code B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python //github comments→ Python 3.7 released //python comments→ What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language //mikedrivendevelopment comments→ PostgreSQL Features You May Not Have Tried but Should //pgdash comments→ Anti-If: The missing patterns //joejag comments→ Rust 2018: an early preview //rust-lang comments→ Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub //github comments→ #Data OpenAI Five //openai comments→ Backpropagation algorithm visual explanation //google-developers comments→ Berkeley Deep Drive Dataset //berkeley comments→ AI Can Smell Illnesses in Human Breath //nvidia comments→ I trained a neural network to write Kanji //otoro comments→ #Design Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript //github comments→ The Spacetime of Fine Art //nautil comments→ #Learn One Island Grows 80% of the World's Vanilla //atlasobscura comments→ Negative Base //wikipedia comments→ The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture //atlasobscura comments→ Trachtenberg System for Rapid Mental Calculation //wikipedia comments→ #Books The Vue.js Handbook – Free 120 pages ebook //vuehandbook comments→ Test-Driven Web Development with Python – The Book //obeythetestinggoat comments→ Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US? //ycombinator #Watching How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite //youtube comments→ DevTube: Searchable index of developer videos //dev comments→ A sad update about a scissors maker that went viral //kottke comments→ Two Vortex Rings Colliding in Slow Motion //youtube comments→ Plastic Injection Molding //youtube comments→ Shouting in the Datacenter //youtube comments→ Seximal: A better way to count //youtube comments→ #Working Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview //github comments→ How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers //gusto comments→ Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Their Co-Workers //bloomberg comments→ Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade //thesoundingline comments→ Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star generating industrial jobs //city-journal comments→ #Longreads Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far //wired comments→ Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents //filfre comments→ The Death of a Once Great City: The Fall of NYC and the Crisis of Urban Wealth //harpers comments→ Old in Art School //longreads comments→ #Startup News Introducing A16Z Crypto //a16zcrypto comments→ Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B //bloomberg comments→ Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant //techcrunch comments→ #Fun Tetris for Applesoft BASIC //paleotronic comments→ Rabbit Ear: a creative coding JavaScript library for designing origami //rabbitear comments→ How I had a bygone 72-pin connector remade just to play Duck Hunt //keacher comments→

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RWD Weekly #315

Bringing you the latest news around building and designing on the web.

View this email in your browser Hello again and welcome to this week's responsive design weekly newsletter. This week I had a request to come up with some changes for a clients site who are launching  a new campaign but.... and there is always a but.... we weren't allowed to make any CMS/template/structural changes to the site at all, they all needed to be CSS/copy/imagery updates. I love these kinds of challenges and constraints because it makes you focus on the things that you can change rather than everything you could possibly do to a site. It's amazing how much of a difference you can make to the look and feel and user journey by simply improving the imagery and updating a few styles.   Headlines Figma 3.0 (!) – Figma Design Figma is turning 3.0 and is dropping some new features and functionality around adding styles and prototyping to its growing list of features. There's a bold statement in the article - "Throw away your InVision license"... do you think it can replace Invision with an all in one design tool? Sponsor CMYK Colour Edition Get yourself one of the first Colour Edition notebooks today. Each set contains the four main CMYK colour covers along with colour theory on the inside covers. Articles Your Emails (and Recipients) Deserve Better Context I'm pretty sure that we get most of these tips right in our weekly newsletter... after all you are who makes this newsletter so I'm hoping you're getting the best experience. On a slight tangent, any time that you send an email to someone internally at your place of business they should be able to understand what is in your email by reading the subject line along! If you do this, I promise that people will love getting emails from you over the years.   Pixels vs. Ems: Users DO Change Font Size In this study, it appears that at least 3% of users are browsing sites using a browser text size other than 16px (the default). This means that you should ensure that the sites you're building not only respond to viewport size, but also the size the user decides to set of the text itself.   T-25 days until Chrome starts flagging HTTP sites as "Not Secure" This week Troy Hunt is covering how "easy" it is to move to https (nothing is ever as easy as you think, especially when tech is involved). He is right though, it's only another 25 (probably less now) days before Chrome starts marking non https sites as not secure.  You should make sure you are ready to go, and that you've got http->https redirects firing.   What Newsletters Should Designers And Developers Be Subscribing To? I'm really happy to see RWD Weekly make this list, but I'm even happier to see a bunch of great newsletter content that I'm not already subscribed to. If you're looking to stay on top of your industry there are a lot of must subscribes in this list.   What is the CSS 'ch' Unit? If you were hoping it was a magical unit that we could used to set our content widths at to ensure that we had the perfect line length.... well I'm sorry it's not. Eric does a great job of explaining what they are   New tools for art direction on the web After soaking up some An Event Apart talks Jeremy was keen to try some new front end techniques on 'The Gęsiówka Story'. Using variable fonts and CSS Grid I think he did a really great job showcasing an important story. One thing that I found really interesting was the little touch done for the footnotes, when becoming active they set the min-height to 100vh giving the footnote the focus that it needed.   How and Why We Unit Test Our Sass   Tutorials Improve your visitors' perceived loading speed with primitive art By including SVG sketch versions of your images you can improve the perceived performance of your page. This can be particularly important for mobile and slow connections and will give the user that little bit of a rough preview as to what they'll see next.   Offline-Friendly Forms One of the most requested features that I get for offline web apps are forms that work regardless of the connection. This is a great overview along with an example Codepen.   Building a responsive image How to create a logo that responds to its own aspect ratio.   HTTPS Is Easy! With Google updating the way in which they show non-https sites in 25 days I thought it was a good idea to provide you with some details on how to move towards https (if you're not there already).   Tools & Resources face-api.js JavaScript API for face detection and face recognition in the browser with tensorflow.js   VS Code Can Do That? All the best things about Visual Studio Code that nobody ever bothered to tell you Thanks to those that suggested some of the links for this week, if you have come across something that you found interesting, or have written yourself, hit reply and let me know. Cheers, Justin. Copyright © 2018 Simple Things, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you rock! You wanted to know more about Responsive Web Design so you signed up to this list to receive a weekly update with links to articles, tools and tricks of the trade. 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