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Awestruck

Front-end tools

Inter [github/rsms] is a typeface specially designed for user interfaces, focusing on high legibility.

A guide to using JSON web tokens [github/dwyl].

An awesome list of “awesome lists” [github/jonatasbaldin]. ie curated collections of links on a single topic.

Front-end learning

Resources for junior developers [bitwise].

Going way back now, learn about the Command Menu [itnext], part of an advent calendar explaining Chrome DevTools.

Pull the Rug

News/business

After it was revealed Facebook had been secretly paying people to install a data-gathering app [techcrunch], Apple broke all of Facebook's internal iOS apps by revoking its enterprise certificate [theverge].

Apple is reportedly working to launch iPhones with 3D cameras for AR in 2020, which would create exciting opportunities for developers [bloomberg].

If you thought Facebook's rough year would deflate earnings, think again — net income is up 61% year-over-year [venturebeat].

Meanwhile, relatively scandal-free Microsoft's revenue is up 12% year-over-year [windowscentral].

Google+ photos, pages, comments and other content will begin disappearing for good on April 2 [venturebeat].

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Everything else

A brief history of rock musicians who went electronic [vulture]. Probably best not to mention Use Your Illusion II's My World.

This deepfake of Steve Buscemi's face overlaid on Jennifer Lawrence is deeply disturbing [youtube].

There's your Thursday Versioning! We'll be spending the day archiving our precious memories on Google+. Okay, not really, there's nothing there - but it was worth checking, right?