Blended

Let It Go General web First up, Meteor is up to version 1.0 [meteor], so check out what’s new and join the celebration! Puer [github] is a Node-based live-reload server. Client Storage [github] provides namespaced client storage for Angular. Build Quality In [leanpub] is an e-book collection of continuous development and devops experiences from the real world. There’s nothing like first-hand experience. And here’s a bit more first-hand experience: a newbie’s first go with Go [scotch.io]. Bonus: it’s by (great) SitePoint author Tim Evko.

Blended Design Here’s a quick guide to ‘blend if’ in Photoshop [bjango]. Elsewhere, can you nail the RGB challenge [rgbchallenge]? For those who did really well on that previous challenge, here’s a color blindness simulator [color-blindness] to help give you some empathy for those less fortunate. And here’s a guide to designing for large-screened phones [lukew].

Skeleton Staff SitePoint It’s the end of October, which means it’s Halloween (in the parts of the world that care about Halloween). In honor of that, here’s the 13 scariest clients of Halloween. Watch out for the Preposterous Phantom, he’s a dangerous one. Meanwhile, away from the world of horror, here’s a guide to creating your first ‘Hello World’ app in Swift. Then we have a first look at Google’s email revamp, Inbox. And here’s a guide to creating an opt-in modal with jQuery.

Paying Dirty News/business Here are some advanced concepts in SEO [moz], taking you beyond simple keywords. Content marketing site Copyblogger is killing its Facebook page [copyblogger], citing issues with fake fans and a level of engagement that meant it just didn’t make sense to waste time on the social network. Very interesting reading for anyone involved in social media/the internet. The HTML5 spec has been finalized [arstechnica] but that might not be the end of the squabbling between WHATWG and W3C. There’s a whole big hoo-ha going on between Apple and a group of large US retailers over the future of the mobile payment world. Apple has Apple Pay, and the retail group, spearheaded by Walmart, has CurrentC. Here’s a look at the QR-code-based(!) system [techcrunch]. Contrast that with this description of how Apple Pay works [kirklennon].

OK Drone Off-topic Versioning took longer to put together today because we spent way too long watching the latest OK Go video [youtube]. You’ve probably already seen it, but if not it’s incredible. A drone-filmed video with umbrellas used as pixels, what’s not to love? Finally, and keeping to the “check out this cool video” theme, check out this cool video of the Apple Watch interface running on an iPhone [thetechblock]. Practical? Probably not. Awesome? Most definitely.