Under Fire

Just Your Type General web TheaterJS [github/zhouzi] is a JavaScript library that offers an animated effect that mimics humans typing. It’s hard to explain so here’s a demo [gabinaureche]. dashboards [github/keen] offers some responsive dashboard templates for Bootstrap. An interesting piece on “JavaScript Modularity Shaming” [swannodette], which you totally know about even if you think you don’t. How GitHub uses GitHub to document GitHub [github/blog]. Trigger warning: meta.

In Perfect Shape Design Our very own Hugo Giraudel has produced this comprehensive (and quite nicely presented) collection of Sass Guidelines [sass-guidelin]. Then there’s a guide to creating pixel-perfect shapes in Photoshop[medium/kieranpblack]. And here are 5 killer CSS talks from last year [blog.pexels]. We promise to cut back on the year-end round-ups by the end of January at the latest.

Ol’ Blue Eyes SitePoint On SitePoint today, we had an article from Shaumik Daityari on the 8 things he wishes he’d known when he started developing. Here’s a grid system head-to-head: Bootstrap 3 vs Foundation 5. Then there’s a look at how to communicate effectively with freelancers. Lastly, Bourbon and Sinatra — a match made in heaven.

Under Fire News/business Designs for Apple’s long-rumored 12-inch Macbook Air have apparently been leaked [9to5mac], and the thing has, like, no ports. Just throw all your USB peripherals away immediately because they are garbage now. Or maybe wait until it’s official/you buy one, up to you. Here’s the backstory to why Amazon’s Fire Phone was such a disaster [fastcompany]. Obscure encyclopaedia upstart Wikipedia is now on HHVM [hhvm] [citation needed]. Meanwhile, Kickstarter has moved its payments to Stripe [kickstarter]. Lastly for this section, this is an essential read from Twitter and Medium’s Ev Williams on metrics and the stuff that actually matters [medium/ev].

Mystery Meat Off-topic Witness the future of meat, where mechanical animals eat plant matter and extrude burger patties [outsideonline]. Delicious. The internet archive has a couple thousand MS DOS games [archive] if you want to relive your, or someone else’s, childhood. Elon Musk did an AMA, gave some awesome answers [reddit]. When asked about the daily habit that had the most positive impact on his life, he replied, “showering.” Good tip! Finally, Sony is selling a new Walkman that offers high-quality sound, wi-fi and NFC, and costs $1200 [mashable]. Good luck with that.

Those are our links for another day in Versioning. We're off to sell our USB accessories to raise money for our new Walkman. What year is it, again?