Skeleton Twins

Mission Kimpossible General web d3-exploder [github/bsouthga] can manipulate d3 charts in really cool ways. Here’s an interview with Lisp creator John McCarthy Here’s a really good guide to building a scalable web app on AWS [airpair]. Related: this is a really clear, compelling read on how engineers scaled up Paper Magazine’s back-end to handle the rush of traffic caused by the appearance of another famous, er, back-end: Kim Kardashian’s [medium/message]. It's SFW, btw. Flat Attack Design Here’s an interesting look at how one company is modernizing their UI [medium/korsosm]. Has visual design fallen flat? Yeah, sure, why not? [blog.intercom] Skeleton Twins SitePoint On SitePoint today, we had a bunch of good stuff, in particular this article onbuilding SVG icons. We also checked out Mozilla’s new version of Firefox, v35, which comes with plenty of interested web-dev-related features. Then we took a look at Skeleton, a simple CSS boilerplate. And we detailed the five best tools to test out your mobile apps. The Holo Men News/business The biggest tech news of the day/week/month(/year?) was Microsoft’s unveiling of its vision of the future of computing: holograms! [arstechnica] Here’s Wired with a hands-on [wired], and Polygon with a reason to be suspicious [polygon]. No sign of Tupac, unfortunately. Microsoft also unveiled Windows 10, which will bring its assistant Cortana to the OS, and its new browser, code-named Project Spartan [blogs.windows]. Did you know Microsoft had something to do with Halo? Weird how little they mention it. Meanwhile, in its quest to compete with literally every other company in the world,Google is getting into the wireless mobile services game [arstechnica]. Twitter unveiled a new “while you were away” feature, which updates you on stuff you may have missed while you were living your life [blog.twitter]. So now you never have to miss a meaningless argument between friends or enemies ever again! Mozilla has tweaked referrer headers in an effort to protect user privacy [arstechnica]. WhatsApp now has a web app for Chrome and Android [theverge], but some argue it’s a poor effort [andregarzia]. Want the thrill of doing menial tasks for minimal benefit without leaving your house? Remote Internships [remoteinternships] is for you! Nearest and Dearest Off-topic Nearlock [nearlock] uses your iPhone’s location to decide when to lock your Mac. There’s definitely no way this could go wrong. Streamus [streamus] is a Chrome extension that takes all the pain out of listening to music via YouTube. Speaking of augmented reality, here’s Adblock for the real world [jonathandub]. Finally, your future credit score could depend on who you know on social media [motherboard.vice], rather than whatever it depends on now. That's all for today: from butts to holograms, it really ran the gamut. We'll be back again tomorrow with more (maybe not more butts, but we'll see).