The Eyes Have It

Elementary General web Personify.js [github/personifyjs] is an open source JavaScript library that combines IBM’s Watson with the Twitter API for all sorts of clever applications. gitrob [github/michenriksen] is a Ruby tool to ensure sensitive organizational info isn’t accidentally included in public GitHub repos. gifshot [github/yahoo] is a JS library to create animated gifs from video, media streams or images. blessed-contrib [github/yaronn] is a tool to build dashboards out of ASCII art and JS. angular-oauth2 [github/seegno] is the AngularJS Oauth2 authentication module, rewritten in ES6. CodeFightClub [code-fight.club] is a place to put your skills to the test against a worthy opponent. However, just b linking to this we’ve already broken the first and second rules of the club. Here’s a crowdsourced response [github/alex] to the age-old interview question: What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter? It’s quite detailed. So Sketchy Design Here’s an index of the most useful Sketch resources [sketch-land]. And here’s a bunch of design tips for non-designers [designschool.canva]. A collection of creative favicons [blog.placeit] — which includes a nice SitePoint shout-out! Here are nine games that are fun for designers [youthedesigner] (and possibly no-one else). How some of your favorite apps may look on the Apple Watch [fastcodesign]. Lastly, here’s an argument for putting “the nuclear option” front and center in your design [infovore]. Swift and Sure SitePoint Up on SitePoint over the weekend, here’s a great article continuing a guide to building a tetromino puzzle game in Apple’s Swift programming language. And here’s a post from PHP editor Bruno Skvorc, looking at a few of the more interesting aspects of the upcoming release of PHP 7. All Eyes News/business Here’s an argument for avoiding user accounts on your site, as well as some tips for making accounts as un-annoying as possible [benburwell]. Be My Eyes [bemyeyes] is a really cool initiative, offering the blind access to a sighted helper via webcam. Here’s a look at Google’s paltry support for CSS media queries [emaildesignreview], which some of you may have experienced reading this very email. Lastly, for this section, here’s how Amazon tricks people into believing it always has the best prices [recode]. Blackbird Off-topic Parity [abefehr] is your next favorite game/bane of your existence. WhiteAlbum [whitealbumapp] is an app that makes smartphone photography feel retro. You take 24 photos and they’re printed and sent to you, rather than displayed digitally. This is an effort to find ISBN numbers in Pi [artificialphilosophy.blogspot]. Because of course someone is trying to find ISBN numbers in Pi. Those are our links for you today. We'll probably be back tomorrow, depending on whether we manage to finish Parity or not. See you then (possibly)!