Issue 17

🏡Belgian ecological architect Vincent Callebaut's designs an “inhabited tree for Millennials”. Apple working on touchless control and curved iPhone screen.

Apr 10, 2018

🤖 ROBOTS MAKE GOOD LAWYERS, BUT TERRIBLE WAITERS.

Heya,

IRL this week, everywhere, will be about Zuck's shucks, so I steered clear of his shenanigans. However, I do have a tangential connection with a study on why the internets transforms people into trolls.

At long last the proof that robots make better lawyers than waiters. Submit your jokes here.

Some cool architecture with floating islands and forest like apartments. Another newsletter of the week, this week for awesome UI animations. A bunch of cool things for web builders. Spoiler alert: Pac-Man, JS, and VR.

We'll wrap it all up with some video game stuff. Not at all inspired by my desire for a new gaming machine. Not at all.

📰 From the Newsroom

🏡Belgian ecological architect Vincent Callebaut's designs an “inhabited tree for Millennials”.

Biophilic architecture could be both a solution to climate change and a way to increased happiness and productivity. Check out these floating villages designed to work with rising sea levels in San Francisco Bay.

mymodernmet.com

Apple working on touchless control and curved iPhone screen.

The MIT interface that picks up the words we almost say means the future of HCI is going to have no tactility.

bloomberg.com

📰 Newsletter of the Week

CodeMyUI: Great web design inspiration in a weekly newsletter. 📰

This is an essential newsletter for front-enders. Great, great curated newsletter with code snippets for better UI.

I am really not sure where George finds these funky snippets; the fried-egg loader is a personal favorites.

codemyui.com

🤖 Robots et. al.

Knowhere: Machine and human intelligence come together to deliver the real news. #nofakes

knowherenews.com

👩‍⚖️Lawyer bots that fight parking tickets could cost local cities money.

Undermines the entire tradition of billable hours with prices ranging from free to $49. Only the classic "We only collect a fee if you win" survives this robotic infestation.

recode.net

The eternal question answered: If I'm polite to a robot waiter will the food ever come? No.

Hungry leads to hangry. Hangry leads to robot-human wars.

ieee.org

🕷️ Design & Development Arena

CodePenChallenge: Pac-Man roundup. 🕹️

It's great to see Pac-Man still getting some work after all these years. My pick is definitely the Pac-Man Jedi mind trick.

codepen.io

Who can resist JavaScript trends? These are the ones to watch in 2018.

hackernoon.com

Archive: 7 rules for creating gorgeous UI (Part 1).

medium.com

'Safespaces', a 3D/VR desktop environment for the Arcan display server.

Proceed with caution: Developer warnings include guaranteed eye-strain and, most likely, vomiting.

arcan-fe.com

The history of React.js on a timeline.

risingstack.com

🎨 A solid argument for visual design tools in the browser.

uxdesign.cc

🥇 World of WordPress

The four freedoms that make up the WordPress philosophy (Part 1). 🤔

mediatemple.net

What is WPBlockChain?

In layman's terms: "WPBlockChain is a next-generation content-link verification algorithm for heuristic datatype authentication and intra-block tensile fortitude consensus in a modern WordPress environment."

Yep, it really is that simple.

deliciousbrains.com

Do you ❤️ your WordPress host? Share the details in this survey.

typeform.com

👩‍💻 Misc Tech

Why good people turn bad online. 👺

In web mythology trolls are a class of being that seem almost human. This study seeks to explain why the internet breeds so many trolls.

mosaicscience.com

Learn more about Fin7. The hacking group worth billions after a string of big breaches. 👨‍💻

wired.com

😱 Slightly Terrifying

Digital versus analogue: why vinyl is starting to make a comeback (but doesn't have an emoji).

thenational.ae

The lofty optimism of Spotify and the streaming revolution.

I included a link about how beats and streaming were killing genre. This piece from The New Yorker is more interested in the impact on the creative community.

newyorker.com