Pitch Black

Swipe Right General web Swing [github] is a JavaScript swipeable cards interface, like in apps like Tinder. Twitter partnered with Iconfactory to make their own (very cute) collection of emoji, and now they’ve open-sourced the whole thing! [github] Paperclip [github] is a JavaScript templating engine designed for the DOM. Deliver [github] is a Ruby library to automate the delivery of screenshots, app metadata and app updates to the Apple App Store with one command. Purplecoat.js [github] lets you create purple, labelled overlays on page elements that can be triggered in a single click. jQuery.dotdotdot [github] is a library that helps you to avoid overflowing text in any browser. Moving away from the GitHub libraries, this is a complete guide to the state of Angular 2.0, as at November 2014 [eisenbergeffect.bluespire]. And here’s a hacker’s guide to neural nets, focusing on JavaScript [karpathy.github].

Pitch Black Design This is really impressive. Blackout [behance] is an amazing 3D experience created entirely in CSS. Very cool. Here’s a guide to layout math with CSS [demosthenes]. Here’s a look at how a group in the Netherlands designed “The iTunes of Journalism [medium] and got almost everyone in their country to pay for news. Here’s a look at how and why Medium’s designers use bookmarklets to help with their design projects [medium].

ReFuel SitePoint First up on SitePoint today, and this seems a weird one to highlight in an email newsletter, but it's very interesting:  The myths of email marketing. Here’s a run-down of the top 7 hybrid mobile app frameworks. And here’s an overview of Compass 1.0. Lastly for this section, here’s a reintroduction to FuelPHP.

Lock In News/business Boing Boing co-editor, author, journalist and blogger Cory Doctorow has a new book out — Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free — focusing on the state of copyright in the digital age. Here’s an excerpt, looking at DRM and the effect of “digital locks” [techcrunch]. Here’s a great feature from Quartz on the internet’s language problem, and the ongoing efforts to translate the web [qz]. This is a blistering argument against the idea of productivity [medium]. Not a waste of time, if there is such a thing as "wasting time".

Virtual Banality Off-topic The Oculus Rift is going to bring in a new age of incredible virtual wonders, taking us to places we could never visit in real life, and immersive worlds we can get lost in. Or, it’s just going to be used to recreate an 80s arcade [gizmodo] so we can play retro games. Forget Interstellar, NASA has a space blockbuster of its own: A short timelapse film built from 80GB of photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station [rsvlts]. Google is filming a new breed of 360 degree short films you can explore from whatever angle you like on your smartphone [medium]. The guy behind the Fast and the Furious is involved, so you know they’ll be good.