Issue 42

[PW] Google’s CEO says tests of censored Chinese search engine turned out great. 👍 Data visualisation of the biggest fake news stories of 2017.

Oct 16, 2018

🔥 VISUALIZING FAKE NEWS; RANDOM COLOR PALETTES; UPDATE PHP ALREADY.

Heya,

Sorry about the 404 last week. It was working when I scheduled this newsletter but went down sometime after.
Either we're mighty, or we stumbled into a disturbing conspiracy.

This week:
Jungle sound, it's drivin' your productivity through the roof,
An animated DragonSnake which is exactly that cool,
How to build a WordPress site,
Can you rehabilitate an aging Trick or Treater?

📰 From the Newsroom

[PW] Google’s CEO says tests of censored Chinese search engine turned out great. 👍

Rest assured, they're always trying to balance virtue and...stuff.
In this case, the balance skewed towards making a lot of money.

Since we're talking about trillions, this is a visualization of stuff costing trillions.

wired.com

🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web

Data visualisation of the biggest fake news stories of 2017.

informationisbeautiful.net

The ultimate jungle noise generator. 🏞️

If you have never got down with the jungle boogie then this is the place to start.

mynoise.net

LIsten to classic songs in a format made to destroy them.

Before mp3, Flac, Ogg there was MIDI. This website has over 100,00 MIDI files, so cancel Spotify already.

bitmidi.com

Miniature Calendar has daily dioramas utilizing miniatures and everyday objects. 🎠

If you ever painted a Warhammer miniature then this site will speak to the artisan inside you.
The Spirit of Durthu inside you will be ready to stomp.

miniature-calendar.com

📰 Newsletter of the Week

Five Things from Nico Lumma is a solid ⭐

Nico sends 5 things every day of the week. He's the warrior of newsletters.
I guarantee that every email contains at least one fascinating link for fascinating people. And that describes you guys nicely, so check it out
(Notice I include myself by implication. GG, Chris).

getrevue.co

⚒️ Tools and Resources

If you name a project DragonSnake then you're placing a lot of pressure on it. 🐉

Which is exactly why I didn't call my son Dragon Snake Fitzgerald Jr.
But, this animation? It's DragonSnake alright.

github.io

An animated comic made with React.

I love this way of doing digital comics. The Watchmen motion comic would have been great in this format.

codepen.io

Some HTML, some CSS, a little bit of JavaScript come together make this random, harmonic, color pallete. 🎨

If you struggle with colors, then this is perfect. It generates 6 harmonious colors with every click.

codepen.io

pnpm is a fast package manager.

If you are working with a lot of packages then you're probably losing a lot of HDD space to duplicate files. With pnpm you can just download one version of the file which will also speed up installations.

js.org

Snippet Store helps you manage your snippets.

Good for any code that could realistically be defined as a morsel, particle, shred, snatch, fragment, or piece.

github.io

🕷️ Design & Development Arena

8 steps for making a website. 🛠️

It's a WordPress article, but still one of the best DIY guides for web building.

themeisle.com

CSS Border-Radius is the unheralded trick with amazing potential.

medium.com

Around 62 percent of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks. 🏚️

It's time to take the leap up from 5.6 which was released when:
Rude by Magic was #1.
You could still see GotG in cinemas.
We had yet to be divided into those who were all about the bass and those who were all about the treble.

zdnet.com