Issue #150 · February 17, 2020

Neumorphism/Soft UI CSS shadow generator

“Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet”

Best 7 links of week #7, 2020

Articles

CO2 emissions on the web

I’ve spent the last month trying to reduce the carbon footprint of the websites I have (some) control over. When talking about this with other people they often look at me blankly before asking “aren’t you taking this a little too far?”.

Design Systems, Agile, and Industrialization

There’s a big difference between having smart, reusable patterns at your disposal and creating a dictatorial culture designed to enforce conformity and swat down anyone coloring outside the lines... but you should blame the implementation, not the technique.

React Kawaii

Cute React SVG Components that you can really use to make your site more playful and engaging!

Book of the week

Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems

Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems

by Nathan Marz

Big Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture that takes advantage of clustered hardware along with new tools designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. It describes a scalable, easy-to-understand approach to big data systems that can be built and run by a small team.