Versioning Front-end - Spellbound
No Images? Click here Northwestern’s Online MS in Information Design and StrategyPrepare for a range of dynamic communication roles and build the skills needed to lead communication strategy, translate complex data, and drive user interactions. Choose from specializations in content strategy, data science and analytics, and learning design. King of KongFront-end toolsprogress estimator [npmjs] provides a progress bar and an estimator for how long a promise will take the complete. Kong, in 3D [codepen/cobra_winfrey]. exkited [github/roecrew], a very simplistic templating language. SubEthaEdit 5 [subethaedit], a well-regarded collaborative text editor, is now open source! SpellboundFront-end learningHow to read color hex codes [dotconferences]. Useful for colorblind devs, but also just devs in general. What to learn after you get the basics of React [medium.freecodecamp]. Dan Abramov explains the React 16.x roadmap through 2019 [reactjs.org]. Test your knowledge of React Hooks [scotch]. A beginner guide to JavaScript’s prototype [tylermcginnis]. Build JavaScript array methods from scratch [scotch]. Why and how to use WebP images on the web today [bitsofco] Or you could try FUIF, a new alternative focused on being “responsive by design” [cloudinary]. Internet Explorer’s CSS Grid support has been upgraded: it now supports duplicate area names [css-tricks]. The Baby-Sitters ClubNews/business[Dell reset all Dell.com customer passwords on November 14, following a hack. They didn’t tell customers for five days](https://boingboing.net/ Twitter banned misgendering or deadnaming transgender people [theverge]. Earlier this week it came out that a hugely popular npm module event-stream had been subverted, and turned to hacking bitcoin wallets. The original creator/maintainer wrote a great piece explaining the issues with people relying on such modules, not helping to maintain them, and then just assuming they’ll always be maintained for free [gist.github]. Well said! Bonus: an explanation of the vulnerability [schneid]. Quote tweets, Instagram Story swipe-ups: social media influencers are increasingly putting a price on every social interaction[theatlantic]. That just makes me want to go walk into the ocean. New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo has some advice for surviving the next era of tech: adopt late, slow down, be mindful [nytimes]. Crypto Rules Everything Around MeEverything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff)Elon Musk says there’s a 70% chance he moves to Mars [axios]. You promise?! The ODB Coin, named after the Wu-Tang Clan member whose full name involves a swear, is maybe the best cryptocurrency?[breakermag]. V A guide to Zepeto, the avatar-based social network that all the youngs are into [motherboard.vice]. Finally, a curated collection of “GitHub drama”: comical interactions that come up in the course of open source development[github/nikolas]. There you have it, plenty of content and a little drama for Thursday. I hope that helped grow your front-end skillz, and also gave you hope that we may soon be living in an Elon-less world. I’ll see you again on Monday for another edition of Versioning Front-end. But if you’re on the list to get every email (sign up!) I'll see you tomorrow to take a look at DevOps content and grab some weekend longreads. Curated by Adam |