State of The Onion

Shellfish General web shellfire [github/shellfire-dev] is a framework for building modular apps in shell script. Oculus Rifters: Firefox Nightly now has WebVR functionality [mozvr]. Meanwhile, Chrome 40 for iOS has Material Design, Handoff and more [venturebeat]. Here’s an article about why containers like Docker are worth exploring [radar.oreilly]. Swatch This Design This is a really cool CRT screen effect created in CSS [codepen/lbebber]. CSS Selector [cssselector] looks like a handy (Mac) app for generating CSS selectors from HTML. This is a beautiful 3D twisty cube animation built in HTML/CSS [codepen/natewiley]. This is a pretty cool Wheel-based animated navigation menu [github/softwaretailoring]. And here’s a cool example of using line-height to create gradients of color within paragraphs of text [codepen/chriscoyier]. Here’s a Sketch plugin to generate color swatches [github/jodyheavener]. Here’s A List Apart with an article arguing for more thoughtful Sass so we can have better-outputted CSS [alistapart]. And here’s a tutorial for creating themed styles with Sass [seesparkbox]. This is an interesting interview with designer/app developer Loren Brichter [objc]. Hinterview SitePoint Firstly on SitePoint today, a look at the top mistakes job interviewers often make, and how to avoid making them yourself. Then we have a go with Jeet, a super-fast responsive grid system. Then we take a look at JotForm, a way to make form building effortless. Lastly for this section, we’ll talk through our successful Christmas campaign which raised $60,000 for The Penguin Foundation, and explain some methods we used that you may want to try yourself. State of The Onion News/business Facebook is promising fewer hoaxes on your newsfeeds [newsroom.fb], but satire sites like Fox News should be fine, fortunately. Obama dumped the State of the Union address onto Medium [theverge]. Can’t wait for his next Medium post where he takes on the issue of link underlining in articles. It’s a bit droughty in California, and Silicon Valley is on it! [medium/backchannel]. This is an in-depth examination of how Apple’s App Store revenue is broken down [metakite] — it turns out there’s a hell of a long tail involved. Here’s what it’s like to work at Netflix [brendangregg]. Sounds like a stream job. Slackdash Off-topic Product Chart [productchart] is a useful way to quickly compare products in a given category. Meanwhile, LastPass has launched a new standalone app for Mac, with quick search, security checks and offline access [techcrunch]. Here’s some Apple-flavored nostalgia for you: a collection of “about” boxes from various vintage Mac apps [systemfolder.wordpress]. Finally, here’s a Slackbot that can get things done in the real world [vimeo/redpepper] (ie, annoy your co-workers IRL). That's it for us today, thanks for joining us. We're off to make an IRL Slackbot that can handle making coffee, finding links and writing bad puns. Then we can retire. See you tomorrow!