After much reflection, this will be my final episode. Thank you to everyone who listened. I learned more than I ever thought I would and truly enjoyed speaking on the industry, news and the awesome tools out there. Thank you all so much!
Dynamic Gmail Emails, Dropbox Redesign, Firefox 67, Google Game Builder, Listen Together and the Implications of Starlink and Broader Internet Access and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Gmail Dynamic Email - https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/06/13/gmails-dynamic-emails-roll-out-to-all-users-on-july-2/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Dropbox Redesign - https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/new-dropbox?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Firefox 67 - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/firefox-67-dark-mode-css-webrender/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- Google Game Builder - https://www.blog.google/technology/area-120/create-3d-games-friends-no-experience-required/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- IP Geolocation API - https://ipgeolocationapi.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Listen Together Concept - https://www.listentogether.io/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Maine ISP's Selling Browsing Data, Firefox Monitor, Google June Core Update, UIBot, SEOSuite and the Challenges in Scoping Projects and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Maine Law Preventing ISP's from Selling Browsing Data - https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/30/maine-internet-history-data/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Firefox Monitor - https://monitor.firefox.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Google June Core Update - https://searchengineland.com/early-data-around-the-google-june-2019-core-update-shows-some-winners-losers-317861?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- UIBot - https://www.uibot.app/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- SEOSuite - https://seosuite.net/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- 4PX Baseline Grid - https://uxdesign.cc/the-4px-baseline-grid-89485012dea6?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Facebook Privacy, Google Anti-Trust Probe, New MS Terminal, DigitalOcean Kubernetes Goes GA, Remote VS Code Development and Why Thinking Multi-Cloud Can Protect Your Infrastructure and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Pretrial Cambridge Analytic Trial Hearing, Facebook Argues no Expectation to Privacy - https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-reportedly-thinks-theres-no-expectation-of-privacy-on-social-media/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Google Anti-Trust Probe - https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/01/tech/google-doj-antitrust-probe/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- New Microsoft Terminal - https://github.com/microsoft/terminal?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- DigitalOcean Kubernetes is Now Generally Available and Getting Better Than Ever
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- Remote Development with VS Code
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-development?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Facebook Asks for Email Passwords, Wordpress 5.2 Coming Soon, Illustrated.dev, Nord Theme Colors and the what and why's of Municipal Broadband and more resources on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- 26 States Ban or Restrict Community Broadband - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzmana/report-26-states-now-ban-or-restrict-community-broadband?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Facebook Asking Some USers for Email Passwords - https://gizmodo.com/facebook-asked-some-users-for-their-email-passwords-th-1834129792?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Wordpress 5.2 Beta 3 - https://wordpress.org/news/2019/04/wordpress-5-2-beta-3/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
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- Nord Theme - https://www.nordtheme.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Illustrated.dev - https://illustrated.dev/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
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Annual Stack Overflow Survey, Edge Goes Chromium, USWDS 2.0, OWASP CheatSheets, Google Tag Trigger Groups and What is USWDS after all and more resources on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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News
- Annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey Out - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Edge's first Chromium builds are out - https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300077/microsoft-edge-chromium-canary-development-release-download?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Atom 1.36 and jQuery 3.4.0 - https://blog.atom.io/2019/04/09/atom-1-36.html & http://blog.jquery.com/2019/04/10/jquery-3-4-0-released/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- USWDS 2.0 - https://v2.designsystem.digital.gov/whats-new/updates/2019/04/08/introducing-uswds-2-0/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- Using Google Tags new Trigger Groups - https://searchengineland.com/heres-how-to-use-google-tag-managers-new-trigger-groups-315011?linkId=65934745?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- OWASP CheatSheets - https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/tree/master/cheatsheets?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Color.review - https://color.review/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Traefik 2.0, Powershell 7, VS Code 1.33, Grafana 6.1 and more resources on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Traefik 2.0 Alpha - https://blog.containo.us/back-to-traefik-2-0-2f9aa17be305?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Powershell 7 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/the-next-release-of-powershell-powershell-7/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- OBS 23.1 - https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/23.1.0?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- VS Code 1.33 - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_33?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Grafana 6.1 - https://grafana.com/blog/2019/04/03/grafana-v6.1-released/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- Snov.io Email Tracker - https://snov.io/email-tracker.html?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- WPGraphQL - https://www.wpgraphql.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Rav1E - https://github.com/xiph/rav1e?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- JWT Authentication for WP Rest API - https://wordpress.org/plugins/jwt-authentication-for-wp-rest-api/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Using CSS Grid the Right Way - https://vgpena.github.io/using-css-grid-the-right-way?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Forghetti - https://www.forghetti.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- SmallPDF - https://smallpdf.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- MetaTags.IO - https://metatags.io/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Google EU Fines, Prometheus Update, Duo on the Web, KV Storage Module, Firefox 66 Release and Realistic Avatars, Deepfakes and Societal Effects and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- EU Fines Google 1.69 Billion for Bundling Search and Advertising - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/google-fined-1-69-billion-by-the-eu-for-anti-competitive-advertising-practices/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Prometheus 2.8.0 - https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.8.0?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Google Duo on the Web - https://9to5google.com/2019/02/26/google-duo-web-launch-2/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- KV Storage, the Web's First Built-in Module - https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/03/kv-storage?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Firefox 66 - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0/releasenotes/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- IconSVG - https://iconsvg.xyz/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Polyfill - https://polyfill.io/v3/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- CSSans Pro - https://github.com/ZeroSpree/CSSans.Pro?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
DO MarketPlace, Windows Lite, OBS Updates & the Challenge with Policing Social Media and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- DigitalOcean MarketPlace - https://marketplace.digitalocean.com?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Git v2.21 - https://github.blog/2019-02-24-highlights-from-git-2-21/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Microsoft Windows Lite - https://www.petri.com/microsofts-lite-os-starts-simple-with-plans-to-scale-up?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- OBS v23.0 - https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/23.0.0?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- Perishable Press 7G Firewall - https://perishablepress.com/7g-firewall/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- RegEx Cheat Sheet - https://dev.to/emmawedekind/regex-cheat-sheet-2j2a?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Responsive Designs and CSS Custom Properties - https://css-tricks.com/responsive-designs-and-css-custom-properties-building-a-flexible-grid-system/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Social Media and Internet Freedom, an Interview with my Son on this special bonus Bit v. Byte!
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500px Breach, FireFox Blocking Trackers, HoloLens 2 Reveal, Augmented Reality and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- 500px Breach - https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/15/photography-site-500px-resets-14-8-million-passwords-after-data-breach/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Default Blocking of Cross-Site Third Party Trackers - https://www.fastcompany.com/90299092/mozilla-most-innovative-companies-2019?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Facebook Shutting Down Onavo VPN App - https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
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- Awesome Design Systems - https://github.com/alexpate/awesome-design-systems?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Moose - https://photos.icons8.com/creator?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
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Adblockers Performance, DO Managed DB, Spectrum Chat and Managed Services Value and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Adblockers Performance Study - https://whotracks.me/blog/adblockers_performance_study.html?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- HashiCorp Vault 1.0 - https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vault-1-0?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases - https://blog.digitalocean.com/announcing-managed-databases-for-postgresql/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- Spectrum - https://spectrum.chat/about?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Optimizing HTTP/2 Prioritization - https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-2-prioritization-with-nginx/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- TypeIt - https://github.com/alexmacarthur/typeit?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- JavaScript Array Explorer - https://sdras.github.io/array-explorer/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Google Tracking, MS Wants IE Gone, RocketBook, GitPitch and TechSnips Courses and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking - https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/02/05/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Microsoft Doesn't Want you Using Internet Explorer - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/8/18216767/microsoft-internet-explorer-warning-compatibility-solution?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Apple is Removing 'Do Not Track' From Safari - https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-removing-do-not-track-from-safari-1832400768?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- RocketBook - https://getrocketbook.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Mixkit - https://mixkit.co/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- GitPitch - https://gitpitch.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
DO in 2019, Massive Mortgage Breach, Facebook Under Investigation & Upcoming 2019 Trends and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- DigitalOcean What's Shipping in 2019 - https://blog.digitalocean.com/whats-new-for-2019/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Mortgage Document Breach - https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/24/mortgage-loan-leak-gets-worse/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Facebook Investigations - https://gizmodo.com/report-attorneys-general-in-six-states-are-now-investi-1832294726?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- Teleprompt.me - https://teleprompt.me/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
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- Blogmaker - https://www.blobmaker.app/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Matter - https://github.com/finnhvman/matter/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Wordpress 5.1 & Gutenberg, PHP 7.3, Kirby 3, UI Bundle and the New Role of the Web Developer and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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News
- Wordpress 5.1 Beta 2 - https://wordpress.org/news/2019/01/wordpress-5-1-beta-2/
- Wordpress Gutenberg Phase 2 - https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-phase-2-to-update-core-widgets-to-blocks-classic-widget-in-development
- Kirby 3.0 - https://getkirby.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- PHP 7.3 (and 7.3.1) - http://php.net/archive/2019.php#id2019-01-10-2
Links & Resources
- UI Bundle - https://uibundle.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- API Marketplace - https://english.api.rakuten.net/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Free Image Resizer - https://promo.com/tools/image-resizer/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Massive Password Breach, WPML Hack, Domino's Pizza Accessibility, Internal Security and more on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Domino's Pizza App Accessibility Court Case - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46894463?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- 773 million users & password breach - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/01/773m-password-megabreach-is-years-old/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- WPML Website Hack -https://wptavern.com/wpml-website-hacked-customer-emails-compromised?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- One-Click DNSSEC with CloudFlare Registrar - https://blog.cloudflare.com/one-click-dnssec-with-cloudflare-registrar/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- DNS Flag Day - https://dnsflagday.net/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- Iconography Good or Bad? As always it depends. - https://medium.com/seek-blog/iconography-good-or-bad-as-always-it-depends-8ea9a28e0b?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- CoBlocks for Wordpress Gutenberg Adds Row/Columns - https://wptavern.com/coblocks-adds-row-and-columns-page-building-blocks-for-gutenberg?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Animating CSS Grid - https://css-irl.info/animating-css-grid/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Ring Privacy Concerns, Alphabet Sued, Free Private GitHub Repos and Responsibilities of Companies & Data and More on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Ring Privacy Concerns - https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-employees-may-have-snooped-on-ring-security-camera-feeds/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Alphabet Board Shareholder Lawsuit - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/alphabet-board-sued-over-massive-payout-to-android-creator-among-others/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- GitHub Free Private Repositories - https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Article 13 Nearly Finished - https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/article-13-almost-finished/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- CSS Tricks Staff 2018 Favorites - https://css-tricks.com/2018-staff-favorites?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- 16 Classic Color Scheme Generators - https://iconscout.com/blog/15-classic-color-scheme-generators-to-pick-the-perfect-palette/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Top 5 Popular Free Material Design Frameworks - https://cssmaterial.com/top-5-popular-free-material-design-frameworks-for-developers/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
2018 Best Apps: Notion, Ansible, CloudFlare, DigitalOcean, Prometheus, Hugo, Grafana and More on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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2018 Best Apps
- Notion - https://www.notion.so/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Wave Accounting - https://www.waveapps.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Hugo - https://gohugo.io/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- CloudFlare - https://www.cloudflare.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- DigitalOcean - https://www.digitalocean.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Prometheus - http://prometheus.io/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Grafana - https://grafana.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Ansible - https://www.ansible.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- 1Password - https://1password.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Links & Resources
- HookBin - https://hookbin.com/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- How to Improve UX of Web Forms - http://maxsnitser.com/blog/how-to-improve-ux-of-web-forms/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Infographic CSS/JS Snippets - https://speckyboy.com/css-javascript-snippets-infographics/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- "Deqaf" CSS Techniques - https://twitter.com/innovati/status/1068998114491678720/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Styling a Select Field Across Modern Browsers - https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/select-css.html?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- Handle Broken Images via a Service Worker - https://bitsofco.de/handling-broken-images-with-service-worker/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
- RemoveBG - https://www.remove.bg/?ref=anchor.fm/bit-v-byte
Facebook Photo Bug, Marriott Hack, Google+ Shutdown, Refactoring UI and Weakening of Privacy on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Facebook Photo Bug - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/were-sorry-facebook-says-again-new-photo-bug-affects-millions/
- Marriott Hack Reported as Chinese State-Sponsored - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-marriott-intnl-cyber-china-exclusive/exclusive-clues-in-marriott-hack-implicate-china-sources-idUSKBN1O504D
- Google shutting down Google+ 4 months early - https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
- Avoid Check for Updates in Windows 10 Button - https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/14/here-is-another-reason-to-avoid-check-for-updates-in-windows-10/
- Firefox 64.0 for Android Canceled, with 64.0.1 Incoming - https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/12/firefox-64-0-for-android-canceled-64-0-1-incoming/
- STAE - https://municipal.systems/explore
- 20 Web Design Trends for 2019 - https://webflow.com/blog/20-web-design-trends-for-2019
- Plus Codes - https://plus.codes/
- Refactoring UI - https://refactoringui.com/book/
Microsoft EdgeHTML Death, PHP 7.3, Google Flutter 1.0, Wordpress 5.0 and Browser Choice in the Future on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Google Messaging, Allo Dead - https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/
- Microsoft Chromium Browser - https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10
- Official Amp Plugin for Wordpress - https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/the-official-amp-plugin-for-wordpress/
- PHP 7.3.0 - https://secure.php.net/releases/7_3_0.php
- Google Flutter 1.0 - https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/12/flutter-10-googles-portable-ui-toolkit.html
- CMB2 2.5.0 - https://github.com/CMB2/CMB2/releases/tag/v2.5.0
- Wordpress 5.0 - https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/bebo/
- WCAG 2.1 Update - https://24ways.org/2018/wcag-for-people-who-havent-read-the-update/
- CSS Text Shadows - https://freebiesupply.com/blog/css-text-shadows/
- CSS Flowcharts - https://freefrontend.com/css-flowcharts/
- Tresorit - https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/09/first-look-at-tresorit-send-file-sharing-solution/
- Accessible SVG Icons with Inline Sprites - https://www.24a11y.com/2018/accessible-svg-icons-with-inline-sprites/
More Google Trouble, First Major GDPR Fine, New Atom/Magento Releases and HTTP/3 and the Future of the Web on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Google Legal Action - https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/27/google-could-face-additional-legal-action-in-europe-over-activity-and-location-tracking/
- Google Dragonfly - https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-employees-google-must-drop-dragonfly-4c8a30c5e5eb
- "Cuddly" German chat app - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/23/knuddels_fined_for_plain_text_passwords/
- Atom 1.33 - https://blog.atom.io/2018/11/28/atom-1-33.html
- Magento 2.3 - https://www.vtnetzwelt.com/ecommerce-blog/magento-development-blog/magento-2-3-everything-you-need-to-know/
- PageRank - https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-pagerank/
- PHP 7.3 Deprecations - https://hackernoon.com/deprecations-and-changes-for-php-7-3-avoid-errors-7a5c4dbeaa8b
- CSS Grid in IE: Duplicate Area Names - https://css-tricks.com/css-grid-in-ie-duplicate-area-names-now-supported/
- Pair and Compare - https://www.pairandcompare.net/
Firefox 63, Wordpress 5.0 RC, Dark Modes, AB Split Testing and User Preferences in Websites on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Firefox 63 - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/firefox-63-tricks-and-treats/
- 33 JS Concepts - https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts
- Background-Clip: Text - https://webplatform.news/issues/2018-11-02
- Redesigning Your Product and Website for Dark Mode - https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/redesigning-your-product-and-website-for-dark-mode
- AB Split Testing in Wordpress in Google Analytics - https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-ab-split-testing-in-wordpress-using-google-analytics/
- Degreeless.design - https://www.degreeless.design/
CloudFlare Worker Apps & Access SSH, PS Format-Stream & is the Hustle a Good Thing on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- CloudFlare Apps with Workers - https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-apps-with-workers/
- CloudFlare Access and SSH - https://blog.cloudflare.com/releasing-the-cloudflare-access-feature-that-let-us-smash-a-vpn-on-stage/
- Web.dev - https://web.dev/
- Glorious Code - https://glorious.codes/demo
- ColorBlindly - https://github.com/oftheheadland/Colorblindly
- Format-Stream - https://evotec.xyz/powershell-working-with-format-table-in-verbose-debug-output-streams/
- Resizing Images keeping Image Ratio - https://medium.com/buildit/hardcore-css-calc-bdfb0162993c
- GraphPack - https://github.com/glennreyes/graphpack
Android Slices, Migrate from Google Maps, ButterCake and the importance of Side Projects on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Hugo 0.51 - https://gohugo.io/news/0.51-relnotes/
- Android Slices in Testing This Month- https://9to5google.com/2018/11/07/android-dev-summit-2018/
- Migrating Away from Google Maps to Cut Costs - https://www.eventsofa.de/campus/migrating-away-from-google-maps-and-cutting-costs-by-99/
- Palx - https://palx.jxnblk.com/
- 40 Free Christmas Icons - https://www.behance.net/gallery/32193621/40-lined-vector-christmas-icons-for-free
- Free Christmas Flat Icons - https://www.behance.net/gallery/21143577/Flat-vector-Christmas-icons-for-free
- CSS and Network Performance - https://csswizardry.com/2018/11/css-and-network-performance
- ButterCake - https://himasrafeek.github.io/butterCake/
WP 2019 Theme, Hugo 0.50, Google Recaptcha 3.0, Lens and Photos & Static Site Generators Revisited on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Wordpress 2019 Theme - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/16/introducing-twenty-nineteen/
- Google Lens comes to mobile web with Google Images - https://9to5google.com/2018/10/24/google-lens-images-mobile-web-live/
- Google Photos Live Album 10K Limit - https://9to5google.com/2018/10/26/google-photos-live-albums-limit/
- Hugo - https://gohugo.io/news/0.50-relnotes/
- Google Recaptcha v3 - https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3
- Rhythm in Web Typography - https://betterwebtype.com/rhythm-in-web-typography
- Sublime Merge - https://www.sublimemerge.com/
Google Anti-Trust Loss, Wordpress 5.0, "The Mine" Game & Unbundling Google Chrome & Search on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Voice actions - https://9to5google.com/2018/10/23/google-assistant-voice-action-services-android-europe/
- Android w/o Google Assistant - https://9to5google.com/2018/10/24/android-without-google-assistant/
- Google Discover on Web - https://9to5google.com/2018/10/27/google-discover-web-rolling-out/
- Wordpress 5.0 Beta 1 - https://wordpress.org/news/2018/10/wordpress-5-0-beta-1/
- Wordpress Classic Editor - https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/
- Headless Wordpress - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/10/headless-wordpress-decoupled/
- "The Mine" Game - https://codepen.io/jcoulterdesign/pen/NOMeEb
- Best of UI October 2018 - https://blog.productdisrupt.com/best-of-ui-oct-2018-7967ce6d7f3b
Chrome, Edge & Adobe XD Updates and on the Topic of Busyness and Productivity on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- CSS Border-Radius Can Do That? - https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/10/css-border-radius-can-do-that/
- Logo Lab - https://logolab.app/home
- GraphJS - https://graphjs.com/
- Slang - https://github.com/kylestetz/slang
- Trix - https://trix-editor.org/
Google & Facebook Hacks, Pixel 3 & Home Hub, Grafana/FontAwesome/DNSControl/Restic Releases and Kids Programming on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Google+ Security Incident - https://thenextweb.com/google/2018/10/09/google-tightening-screws-devs-using-its-services/
- Facebook Hack - https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebook-hackers-compromised-30-million-accounts/
- California Weak Password Law on Internet Connected Devices to go into effect in 2020 - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45757528
- Google Pixel 3 and Home Hub Released - https://www.blog.google/products/hardware/made-by-google-family-2018/
- Granim.JS - https://sarcadass.github.io/granim.js/
- Supercharge Google Fonts with CloudFlare and Service Workers - https://medium.com/@pierluc/supercharge-google-fonts-with-cloudflare-and-service-workers-25c37462fb6a
- Hustl - https://gohustl.co/
- VS Code Can Do That? - https://vscodecandothat.com/
- Creating Horizontal Scrolling Containers the Right Way - https://uxdesign.cc/creating-horizontal-scrolling-containers-the-right-way-css-grid-c256f64fc585?gi=98e1c719a92d
Linux Kernel, CloudFlare Birthday, MacOS X Mojave, Google Search Changes & One Year of Podcasting on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Linux Kernel License Revocation Threat - https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/
- CloudFlare News - https://blog.cloudflare.com/
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave Released - https://www.apple.com/macos/mojave/
- Google Search Changes - https://www.blog.google/products/search/improving-search-next-20-years/
- Gisto - https://www.gistoapp.com/
- 10 Free Font Alternatives to Gotham - https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/09/10-free-font-alternatives-to-gotham/
- Using HSL in CSS instead of HEX or RGB - https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/hex-rgb-to-hsl/
Google Data Studio, ACF 5.0 Free, Evernote & NewEgg Troubles and Tech Conferences on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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- Google Data Studio Generally Available - https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/data-studio-now-generally-available/
- AMP Governance Model Change - https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/governance/
- Increase in Mobile First Crawl Notifications - https://searchengineland.com/google-floods-webmasters-with-mobile-first-indexing-enabled-notifications-305712
- Funding Choices - https://fundingchoices.google.com/start/
- ACF 5.0 - https://wptavern.com/acf-5-0-released-with-updated-ui-and-gutenberg-compatibility
- Evernote Troubles - https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/18/evernote-just-slashed-54-jobs-or-15-percent-of-its-workforce/
- MariaDB acquires Clustrix - https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/mariadb-acquires-clusterix/
- NewEgg Data Breach - https://techcrun
EU Copyright, Google Photo API & Inbox, PS Core 6.1 and TechSnips on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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Links & Resources
- EU Approves Copyright Directive - https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved
- Google Photo API - https://developers.google.com/photos/
- Google Inbox Shutting Down - https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/inbox-signing-find-your-favorite-features-new-gmail/
- Paint.Net 4.1 - https://blog.getpaint.net/2018/09/05/paint-net-4-1-is-now-available/
- TOR Browser 8.0 - https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80
- CloudFlare Workers Cache API Beta - https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-api-for-cloudflare-workers-is-now-in-beta/
- Powershell Core 6.1 - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/09/13/announcing-powershell-core-6-1/
- Complete Guide to CSS Scroll Snap - https://newinweb.com/2018/09/06/css-scroll-snap
Google Optimize Free, Grafana, VS Code, Firefox Updates & UI Design on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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Links & Resources
- Google Optimize Free - https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/this-is-not-a-test-google-optimize-now-free-for-everyone/
- Visual Studio 1.27 - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_27
- PSReadLine 2.0.0 Beta 3 - https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine/releases
- Grafana 5.3 beta - https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v5-3-x/10244
- Firefox 62 - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0/releasenotes
- Chrome 69 - https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/chromes-turning-10-heres-whats-new/
- Refactoring UI - https://refactoringui.com/
- Tailwind CSS - https://tailwindcss.com/
Cross-Posts, Verizon Data Caps, Tech Employee Burnout and Customer Service in Web Development on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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Links & Resources
- Icon Transition Generator - https://nucleoapp.com/tool/icon-transition
- Practical Typography - https://practicaltypography.com/
- Typ.io - http://typ.io/
Flash Deprecation, Ghost Updates, Art of Debugging and Morality and Ethics in Web Development on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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Links & Resources
- Feature Detection in CSS - https://css-tricks.com/using-feature-detection-to-write-css-with-cross-browser-support/
- Securing Sites can make them Less Accessible - https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites-made-them-less-accessible/
- Art of Debugging with Chrome - https://medium.com/frontmen/art-of-debugging-with-chrome-devtools-ab7b5fd8e0b4
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Links & Resources
Firefox Multi-Account Containers - https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/introducing-firefox-multi-account-containers/
Extension by Firefox that allows for sandboxed grouping of tabs that segment your logins to social media sites. This means that Facebook can't necessarily track what you are doing in other tabs since it only see's it's own session.
Lepto - https://github.com/leptojs/lepto
Node based tool that wraps up many of the image optimization tasks into a CLI called Lepto. It includes "Sharp", "PNGQuant" and "Gifsicle" for JPEG, PNG and Gif optimization respectively. It also includes a GUI if need be but it's primarily meant to be an automated framework to optimize your images.
Scale - https://hihayk.github.io/scale/
Simple webapp that allows you to create color scales quickly and
Chrome 68, Atom 1.29 and the difficulty of Time Tracking and Scheduling on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
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Links & Resources
Clockify - https://clockify.me/
Inoreader - https://www.inoreader.com/
Metafact - https://metafact.io/
Wordpress Updates, Buzzfeed Redesign, Netflix TV Interface Redesign & Social Media Shifts on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
Links & Resources
Seamless A/B Testing, Deployment Slots and DNS Rollover with Azure Functions and CloudFlare Workers
https://www.troyhunt.com/seamless-a-b-testing-deployment-slots-and-dns-rollover-with-azure-functions-and-cloudflare-workers/
Debug PHP in VSCode with XDebug
https://www.codewall.co.uk/debug-php-in-vscode-with-xdebug/
Chathooks
https://github.com/grokify/chathooks
Teams Free for All, Chrome CPU Usage, TicketMaster Breach and Serverless Computing on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
Links & Resources
CSS Chrome Developer Tools Tips by JotForm
https://www.jotform.com/blog/how-to-use-chrome-devtools-like-a-pro/
Using Grid in IE
https://css-tricks.com/css-grid-in-ie-debunking-common-ie-grid-misconceptions/
https://css-tricks.com/css-grid-in-ie-css-grid-and-the-new-autoprefixer/
https://css-tricks.com/css-grid-in-ie-faking-an-auto-placement-grid-with-gaps/
InterroBang
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/interrobang/
Firefox 61, EU Copyright Directive Voted Down, Gravit bought by Corel and Voice and the Traditional Web on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
Links & Resources
Mobile Detect - https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect
Frappe DataTable - https://frappe.io/datatable
Net Neutrality Repeal, AT&T and Time Warner Merger, Google App Maker release and Low Code Tools for Small Business on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
Links & Resources
CSS Unicode Patterns - https://css-tricks.com/more-unicode-patterns/
Card - https://jessepollak.github.io/card/
GitLeaks - https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks
GitHub Purchase, VS Code 1.24, Notion on Android and Designing as a Developer on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
Links & Resources
CORS - https://frontendian.co/cors
UI Goodies - http://uigoodies.com/index.html
Episode 27 - Music & Sound Resources, BiteSize Linux, Firefox Send and Balancing Work and Life on this weeks Bit v. Byte!
Links & Resources
Filmstro - https://filmstro.com/
BBC Sound Effects - http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
KeyFrames - https://keyframes.app/
Slack Actions - https://api.slack.com/actions
BiteSize Linux - https://drawings.jvns.ca/
Cool Backgrounds - https://coolbackgrounds.io/
Firefox Send - https://send.firefox.com/
GDPR in Effect, Resources for Colors, Pictures, Fonts and Designs and Thoughts on Performance on this week's Bit v. Byte!
Links & Resources
HueSnap - https://www.huesnap.com/
Pexels - https://www.pexels.com/
Design Systems Repo - https://designsystemsrepo.com/
Fontisto - https://www.fontisto.com/
Coolors - https://coolors.co/
CloudFlare DNS & Workers, Wildcard Certs on LetsEncrypt and talking about the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) on this week's Bit v. Byte episode!
Finally back! Learn about new Twitter content policies, the upcoming critical Drupal vulnerability and new software releases on this week's Bit v. Byte episode!
Is Meltdown and Spectre as bad as they say and what exactly is this thing called speculative execution? Learn all about the newest exploits in this week's Bit v. Byte episode!
There are a lot of options for website hosting and domains, learn what you need to know to choose a good host in this episode of Bit v. Byte. Let me know what your host recommendations are on Twitter and Facebook!
Learn all about SSL and why it's rapidly becoming a critical need for any business website and how you can get started. Happy New Year and let me know if you have an SSL enabled site and what your thoughts are on Twitter or Facebook!
Learn about Software Release and Deployments with this special holiday edition (because it falls on Christmas). Let me know your processes on Twitter and Facebook!
Project management is hard, but it doesn't have to be. With just a bit of structure you can make your projects go much more efficiently. Listen to learn how you can apply this to your projects!
It's important to learn about who your visitors are and why they are following you. Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Webmaster Tools and Data Studio can help you learn a great deal about your visitors and what they are doing on the site. Listen to learn more about how you can use these great free products to enhance your site!
Although, it's been tempered in recent years, Wordpress used to have a reputation as just a blog but no longer. It has become one of the top CMS platforms in use on the web. Listen to learn more about how you can use this to solve your web development needs!
There is a lot you can do for your server security. This episode is just the tip of the iceberg but listen to learn about some critical steps to harden your server against bad actors.