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Sound Bite General web FieldVal [minoblog] is a JavaScript library for validating data and creating readable and structured error reports. vim-hackernews [github/ryanss] is a Python tool that lets you browse Hacker News from within Vim, you maniac. Griddle [github/dynamictyped] is a grid component written in React. Konva [github/konvajs] is an HTML5 Canvas framework, written in JS, that enables Canvas interactivity for desktop and mobile apps. kiwi.js [kiwijs] is an open source HTML5 game engine. FuelUX [github/exacttarget] extends Bootstrap with more JavaScript controls, like checkboxes and toggles. E_PDOStatement [github/noahheck] is a PHP class that lets you look at an interpolated version of a parameterized query, which is apparently very helpful when debugging (thanks Noah!). Here’s a repo with lots of country data [github/mledoze] in JSON, CSV and more. And here’s a set of tutorials to help you learn ES6 [tagtree]. Weak Link Design Web-Font-Load [github/qrpike] will install all of Google’s Web Fonts on your OS X machine. Here’s a UX checklist [uxchecklist] to make your UX problems more obvious. Desinion [desinion] is a place to give and receive design opinions. Here are three interesting alternatives to links [medium/de-correspondent]. Here’s how minimalism made redesigning Yelp easier/better [medium/jerrcao_uxpin]. This is a really cool “gooey” menu effect [css-tricks]. Yo Ho Ho SitePoint Up on SitePoint over the weekend, there was a great piece on building a Rails app using version 3 of the YouTube API. Our Design and UX editor Alex Walker had a great take on the success of the skull and crossbones, surely one of the most successful graphic designs in history. And our PHP editor Bruno Skvorc reviewed the Grumpy Programmer’s Testing Bundle. Apple of My Eye News/business Turns out Tesla loves to poach Apple engineers — more than 150 former Apple employees have jumped ship [bloomberg]. Presumably the company car is an attraction. Speaking of Elon Musk, his other company, SpaceX has postponed another test of its Falcon 9 rocket, it’ll now go ahead tomorrow because of an equipment error [theverge]. Aside from testing whether the rocket’s first stage booster can land after takeoff, this mission will also send the Deep Space Climate Observatory 1.5 million miles away from earth so it can monitor solar storms [slate]. Vice goes inside China’s biggest Bitcoin mine [motherboard.vice]. Turns out there’s a lot of humming noises involved. The new OS X developer beta brings an important change to the operating system:better, more diverse emoji [macrumors]. CAP IT ALL OFF Off-topic Drop an MP3 onto this page [dan.nea.me] and fly through a landscape generated by the music and JavaScript. WAY TO GO [a-way-to-go] is a really great, mind-bending interactive game/demo/thing. What happened when a guy left his caps lock key on for a week? What do you expect? Everyone hated him [fusion]. Here’s a site filled with livestreams of people coding [watchpeoplecode]. Soothing, or frustrating, depending on who you’re watching. That’s it for us for today, thanks for joining us. Tomorrow we’ll be hosting a livestream of this newsletter being written. It’ll be very un-soothing, unfortunately.