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The true story of Yahoo's decline. This journalist tried to steal Mark Zuckerberg’s trash.

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Apr 03, 2018

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📉 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF A TECH EMPIRE.

On the other hand, we have the rise of the chicken.

It is another week of scrambling and bad news for Facebook. How could I avoid a few Facebook links?

I also noticed that Hollywood's imagination of the future is less advanced than our present. Tons of cool tools swept their way into my life. Cue the sad music because:

We're taking a moment to remember Yahoo.


📰 From the Newsroom

The true story of Yahoo's decline.

The missed it by that much section has all the deals Yahoo could have made. Savage.

fastcompany.com  


This journalist tried to steal Mark Zuckerberg’s trash.

Harder than you'd think, but as strange as it sounds.

theoutline.com  


The latest status symbol in Silicon Valley: Chickens.

In some cultures, the chicken spirit animal is considered a timekeeper. Essentially it means you should deal with problems before everything blows up in your face.

Eeeerie.

washingtonpost.com  


Video of 6 awesome tech advances.

Robots get swole, robots get exoskeletons, robots lay bricks. And this is why robots IRL are more advanced than Hollywood's lame attempts at "futuring".

futurism.com  


📰 Newsletter of the Week

Thank God It's Computational.

TGIC is a hand-picked round up of the best content at the intersection of Architecture, Design, and Technology. Great reads in your inbox every Friday just in time for the weekend.

tgic.io  


⚒️ Tools and Resources

Funkify is a Chrome extension that helps you improve the usability and accessibility of your site.

You can see the entire web through the eyes of users with different abilities and disabilities.

funkify.org  


Popmotion is a tiny (11.5kb) motion library for JS.

popmotion.io  


12 cool Chrome DevTools tips and tricks.

freecodecamp.org  


Researchers and artists are creating tools that experiment with Facebook's algorithm.

This collection of apps, extensions, and software all work to provide users more understanding of their Facebook footprint.

Except for 'Go Rando'. It just tosses random reactions at News Feed items to destabilize Facebook's profiling tools.

fastcodesign.com  


Storyboarder is a free, open source storyboarding tool.

This is a pretty cool tool for anyone working with storyboards. You can import paper storyboards. It has export to Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, PDF, and Animated GIF. Also, click to edit in PhotoShop.

wonderunit.com  


🕷️ Design & Development Arena

Video music. The average hue from your camera controls which chord will play.

Create music through the colors your webcam sees.

codepen.io  


A list of funny and tricky JavaScript examples.

github.com  


Super Mario World made only with CSS gradients.

medium.com  


Mobile UI design trends in 2018.

uxplanet.org  


A cool-lection of the best Dev podcasts organised by programming language.

github.com  


Nintendo debuts a coding interface for everyone.

fastcodesign.com  


🥇 World of WordPress

How to use heatmaps to track clicks on your WordPress website.

smashingmagazine.com  


What you need to know to conduct an SEO audit in WordPress.

wpmudev.org


Outro

That's all I got for you this week. Until then let's all Go Rando on a News Feed, somewhere.

Spread the love with a forward or a tweet and I will return your trash unharmed.

Stay awesome you crazy kids,

Chris


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