Mashable: Ouch - Some Slack developers have been exposing corporate data
FYI, slackers.
Responsive Storytelling: Broken Heart.
DWB: Get Weather from Command Line.
The npm Blog — changes to npm’s unpublish policy.
Quartz: How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code.
An important read. Sometimes our foundations are tissue-thin.
Register.UK: Microsoft did Nazi see that coming - Teen girl Twitter chatbot turns racist troll in ho
WaPo: Why students are throwing tons of money at a program that won’t give them a degree.
“You can have thousands of thousands of people graduating these programs with the thought that they’re going to be able to pass these advanced technical interviews, and they might not be able to.” My impression was, bootcamps were successful. No?
AI: Adobe’s Experience Design CC for Mac looks to simplify app, Web UX and prototyping.
I’ll be playing with this over the next couple of weeks. Judging it against Sketch and associated apps/services. If I come up with anything noteworthy, I’ll do a post.
TopRankBlog: How to Be the Best Answer - Content Marketing Best Practices
“Humanity creates more content every two days than our ancestors managed in 6,000 years.” Content, but little value, I’d say.
Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever.
Hah. Two more years, it may hit Santa Fe.
Medium: The Unbearable Homogeneity of Design.
“Maybe we can stop creating overpriced design conferences that self-select for the rich and privileged.” Preach, sister.
vowe dot net: Import content from Evernote to OneNote.
If you’ve considered it before, but quailed at the procedure, MS now has a tool for you. PC-only, for the moment.
fuzzy notepad: Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript.
“I can almost hear the Hacker News comments now, about what a luddite I am for not thinking five paragraphs of static text need to be infested with a thousand lines of script. Well, let me say proactively: fuck all y’all.” Great minds ... see my post yesterday.
Flexbox Defense.
Sketch - Sketch 3.6.
“Sketch now maintains consistent baseline spacing for paragraphs with a fixed line height.” HOORAY.
New Republic: Does Amazon’s Data Speak for Itself?
“I have a copy of Amazon.” Via MeFi.
Macworld: InDesign low memory and old software on new platforms.
“CS6 is almost three years old, and Adobe has no plans to update it. Ever.” Nice.
Pianu is an interactive way to learn piano online.
If you don’t have a plug-in instrument keyboard ... you may want to pass. I just performed the most atonal version of “Chopsticks” ...
Pomodoro Time Manager.
For those of you like me who tend to collect these low cost apps in search of the perfect solution ...
TechCrunch: Prototyping Suite InVision Is Acquiring Design Tool Macaw.
“Notably, InVision is not shutting down Macaw. The company will indefinitely allow access to the current version, while Macaw’s latest product Scarlet (a live, real-time design environment) will be bundled into other InVision products this year.” Another reason to keep an eye on InVision ...
Three from Search Engine Roundtable.
1. Google says shorter URLs are better.
2. Google says links in footers or sitewides aren’t given much weight.
3. Google says title tags are ranking factors, but not worth rewriting for ‘better’ results.
Ask DN: iPad Pro as my main computer, any apps you recommend?
Of interest to those of you with iPad Pros.
Upgrade News.
Curated design, front-end, back-end, mobile dev links. No RSS feeds? Looks like I’d have to sign up to find out.
GitHub: A Git client for Sketch.
Medium/Drew: The Sad State of Web Development.
Entertaining. And indeed sad.
