Independents' Day

Watch It General web Trending Extension [github/ozzimpact] is a Chrome extension that lets you look at trending projects on GitHub. Here’s a great piece on creating maintainable interfaces with React and Meteor [blog.percolatestudio]. Angular 2 will now be built on TypeScript [blogs.msdn]. Here’s how to watch files and directories with Node [davidwalsh]. Draw Together Design Designer Hangout [designerhangout] is a UX Community based in Slack. You have to sign up to join, and there are more than 1800 people involved. This is an OK article about two game studios competing for sales, but the main reason we included it here is because of how bananas the web design is [bloomberg]. Bloomberg Business are making some insane design moves, but does it work? Very Linteresting SitePoint On SitePoint, we compared various JavaScript linting tools. Then Craig Buckler took a look at Vivaldi, the new browser from some of the people behind Opera. Here’s a guide to converting your typographic units to Sass, and doing away with a lot of unnecessary complexity. And then we have a look at 5 things to consider before taking the plunge and starting the freelance life. Independents’ Day News/business Here’s an interactive look at how some Apple Watch apps may operate [watchaware]. Intercom [intercom] looks like a sweet way to talk to your users while they use your apps. Macstories has done a pretty interesting look at the life of indie devs [macstories]. Contributor [google] is Google’s attempt at finding alternative ways to pay for the web. Fob Off Off-topic Google now has a degree in Mixology [twitter/google]. Our faith in Siri has been shaken, but not stirred (cheers Jasmine!) This is a cool demonstration of fluid dynamics in ASCII [youtube]. Here’s a guide to converting OS X screencasts to animated gifs [github/dergachev]. Smartwatches are so mainstream. True hipsters are into smart pocketwatches [theverge]. Finally, here’s a terrifying look at the capabilities of Lockheed Martin’s laser gun [motherboard.vice]. That's it for us today and for the week. We're going to spend the weekend googling cocktails to try and forget that what remains of our concentration is about to be destroyed by Apple's new smartwatch. We'll be back on Tuesday next week, as Monday is some sort of Australian holiday. Hey, we don't make the rules! See you then.