Unboxed Roundup: our links for w/c 1st December 2014
Murray Steele
Dec. 5, 2014
Slow programming - Murray
https://ventrellathing.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/the-case-for-slow-programming/
When I talk with developers in the early stages of their career one thing I try my hardest to let them know is that it's ok to take your time. There's a mindset that productivity and speed are the most important things about being a programmer, and to be anything less than a "10x engineer" is a waste of your time. I don't believe this narrative and I'm happy to see discussion of an alternative. I particularly like that Jeffrey describes his way of working as starting with a bunch of hacks and extracting good code from it once it is functionally complete; we don't have to write perfect code from the first keystroke.
Typeset in the future - Dom
http://typesetinthefuture.com/alien/
An exceptional detailed analysis of the fonts, icons, and device interfaces of the film Alien.
SmartUnderline (JS library) - Tom S
https://eager.io/showcase/SmartUnderline/
Style underlined text more beautifully so that letter descenders have a little bit of padding to the left and right of the line.
Regular expression visualiser - Tom S
Breaks down a regex so that you visually see how it has been constructed.
Data maps of London - Tom S
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29915801
I love data visualisations. I especially love these visualisations of London. A few examples being:
- a network map showing where people commute from
- a range of colours overlaid on London showing different ethnic groups
- Central Line vs average rent
The JS console object is brilliant: 5 functions you didn’t know existed - Tom S
https://shellycloud.com/blog/2014/11/five-functions-of-the-console-object-you-didnt-know
Create tables from an array of hashes (console.table(object)) and grouping messages together (console.group(message)).
The creative side of sneaker culture - Dom
http://artandsoleblog.com/features/view/inspired-ingenuity-sneaker-speakers-by-nash
Inspirational design, even though it clearly started life as a pun ;)
Ruby in the future - Paula
http://astonj.com/tech/ruby-is-about-to-get-red-hot-again/
Interesting and quite complex review of the newest things in Ruby which can be useful in the future.