Type of the Pops

Quantum Of Solace General web Quantum OS [quantum-os.github] is a Linux operating system with the good looks of Google’s Material Design guidelines. HeapInspector [github/tapwork] is an iOS app debugging tool allowing you to inspect the entire memory heap of your apps. PowerArray [github/techfort] is a better Array class for JavaScript. Herow [github/tzi] is a time-saving Sass grid system.

Type of the Pops Design Here’s a very close look at the design delights of Android Lollipop [blog.brianlovin]. This is a great collection of physics UI animations etc [iamrapht.github]. Here are the 25 typefaces most-admired by typographers, type designers and letterers typefaces [blog.8faces].

Risky Business SitePoint On SitePoint, we have a guide to getting started with React and JSX. Then we take a look at a new tool from Microsoft that allows you to run the latest version of IE from the cloud, no virtual machines necessary. Also, here’s a list of the 7 best search engines for free images. Lastly for this section, here’s three of the biggest risks to growing a business, and how to manage them.

Cloudy with a Chance of Crippling Failure News/business Crayon [crayon] is a way to browse and search for marketing designs all over the web. Twitter is just going to go ahead and track all the apps on your phone if that’s cool with you [venturebeat]. Given the widespread issues with Amazon’s Cloudfront yesterday, this is a timely look into the massive scale of Amazon’s data services [enterprisetech].

Be Cool Off-topic Big Data may hold the key to unlocking the secret of the mysterious Voynich manuscript [motherboard.vice], a weird book dating from the 1400s written in its own language and alphabet (thanks Jude!) uBar [brawersoftware] is a dock replacement that gives your Mac a Windows taskbar, in case you for some reason want that? Finally, scienticians have invented a material that keeps buildings cool by radiating heat back into space along very specific infrared wavelengths [arstechnica].

That's it for us today. Tomorrow's edition will be written in Voynich. We apologize for the inconvenience.