What Newspapers Can Teach Us About Web Design
Before the home page, there was the front page. From the Gutenberg Principle to grid systems to above the fold, newspapers teach us much about the foundations of web design.
Issue #139 · December 2, 2019
What Newspapers Can Teach Us About Web Design
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers”
Best 7 links of week #48, 2019
Articles
Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems
An exporation of how an API for design decisions works.
JavaScript in 2019
JavaScript chapter of the 2019 Web Almanac covering how much JavaScript we use on the web, compression, libraries and frameworks, loading, and source maps.
Airbnb: How To Reduce Churn With Personalization
See how Airbnb compares to alternative booking apps when it comes to personalization. Learn how to apply this to your product to reduce user churn.
The database of databases
Discover and learn about more than 600 new and old database management systems!
Egnyte Architecture: building a multi petabyte content platform
This article explores some of the lessons learned while building Egnyte, a content platform that can process petabytes of data.
AWS Lambda: Real-World Use Cases for the DevOps Engineer
This post explores how AWS Lambda can reduce the operational overhead, costs and increase productivity through real world use cases for DevOps/SRE engineers.
Book of the week
Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices
by Josh Lockhart
PHP is experiencing a renaissance, though it may be difficult to tell with all of the outdated PHP tutorials online. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how PHP has become a full-featured, mature language with object-orientation, namespaces, and a growing collection of reusable component libraries. Author Josh Lockhart—creator of PHP The Right Way, a popular initiative to encourage PHP best practices—reveals these new language features in action. You’ll learn best practices for application architecture and planning, databases, security, testing, debugging, and deployment.