Ride Shotgun

You and Whose Army? General web Webseclab [github/yahoo] is a set of web security tests built by Yahoo, but usable by you. Syphon [github/scttnlsn] is an implementation of the Flux architectural pattern for React apps, inspired by Clojure and Om. The US Army has open sourced some defense code [scienceblog], which just seems like a totally safe and not dodgy thing to play with. Here’s the GitHub repo[github/usarmy]. Turret [github/bigfishtv] is a responsive frontend framework built with LESS, built to normalize styles for default HTML elements. Tag Along Design Single-Tag-Website [cj-johnson.github] is an entire webpage rendered using a link to a CSS stylesheet. Hardly mindblowing, but kinda clever. Here’s a quick guide to creating an animated, stateful toggle using CSS [petelada]. Here are three rules of app design according to Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer [fastcodesign]. Bloomberg Businesss was recently redesigned, and it looks weirdly great. Here’s a look behind the scenes [niemanlab]. Call On Me SitePoint First up, here’s a guide to adjusting to the unique challenges of being on-call. Then we have five tips that are proven to help with improving app marketplace ranking. And here’s a run-down of new methods in Ruby 2.2. Ride Shotgun News/business Google is reportedly making moves towards the ride-sharing industry [bloomberg] and if they don’t call it Goober than they’re fools! “Don’t get too excited,” says a rival publication which did not have the exclusive: it’s maybe just a small in-house app Googlers use [blogs.wsj]. That sapphire production plant Apple bought and then scuttled will now be a global command center [arstechnica], which is a really relaxing name. Wikipedia has been mansplaining for ages and no-one noticed until now [fastcompany]. Here’s an interesting interview with the guy behind the Google Brain, who now works for Baidu [medium/backchannel]. Adobe is suing retail company Forever 21 for pirating its software [theverge]. Someone called the fashion police, clearly. The British army has created an army of Facebook warriors [theguardian], tasked with trawling through the social web and “controlling the narrative”. Dystopia-tastic. But forget about that depressing stuff, check out all the shiny ways you’ll definitely use your new Apple Watch that you’ll definitely buy [apple]. Tinder is offering a second chance at a first impression, with an undo button added for users who pay for the privilege [theverge]. Twitter has always had a bit of a problem onboarding users, but apparently it’s nearly solved that [bits.blogs]. Here’s an interesting look at how APIs are displacing middle management [rein] and what that means for the humans involved in a given field. Head Count Off-topic Hydra [creaceed] looks like a super great camera app. Here’s a great argument for using multiple VPNs on public wifi [dafacto]. Word Map [wordmap] is a cool experiment showing different translations of particular words on a world map. Windows 10 is coming to the Raspberry Pi 2! [dev.windows].