The Perfect Paragraph—A Web Typography Learning Game
Learn how to set a typographically perfect paragraph by adjusting font-size, line-height and line length in this cool learning game.
Issue #18 · July 10, 2017
The Perfect Paragraph—A Web Typography Learning Game
“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple”
Best 7 links of week #27, 2017
Articles
How to build a simple neural network in 9 lines of Python code
As part of my quest to learn about AI, I set myself the goal of building a simple neural network in Python.
Creating truly universal React component systems
Announcing styled-components/primitives, an experimental entry point combining styled-components and react-primitives
JavaScript for Microcontrollers and IoT
Learn about the different options for running JavaScript on microcontrollers and IoT platforms
Why I'm Switching from React to Cycle.js
Ivan Jovanovic introduces the basic concepts of reactive programming and explains why he's ditching React for Cycle.js, a functional reactive JS framework.
Building a sentiment analysis bot with IBM Watson and Raspberry Pi
Do you ever wonder how your teammates perceive your Slack chat messages? Maybe you sound heroic! Or unpleasant. Perhaps you project harsh…
Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos
While Kerberos probably can not be explained to a 5-year-old and be understood, this is a great attempt at defragmenting documentation with some visual aids and digestible language.
Book of the week
CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems
by Lea Verou
In this practical guide, CSS expert Lea Verou provides 47 undocumented techniques and tips to help intermediate-to advanced CSS developers devise elegant solutions to a wide range of everyday web design problems. Rather than focus on design, CSS Secrets shows you how to solve problems with code. You'll learn how to apply Lea's analytical approach to practically every CSS problem you face to attain DRY, maintainable, flexible, lightweight, and standards-compliant results.