Fun fact in history this week: On August 13th, 1912 Metten Koornstra, a Dutch painter and graphic artist was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. You can see the painting from the featured image here.
And here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:
- Vue CLI 3.0 is here. And it comes packed with a lot of great functionalities: searching and installing Node modules, managing different tasks, the ability to open the project in your default code editor, etc. It even has a dark theme.
2. BBC R&D creates a case-study about variable fonts and how they relate to better experiences for its users.
3. We should all optimize our images. Reading blog posts and making changes to your configuration takes a lot more time than having a third party solution.
4. If you are not a designer but want to know more about design, this guide could be useful.
5. Git is hard: doing something wrong is very easy and fixing it very hard. In this guide you can see some bad situations and how to get yourself out of them.
6. Chris Gannon creates some great animations. Here is a slider pen inspired from the Westworld TV series.
7. A brief history of JavaScript from its creator, Brendan Eich. Featuring some interesting-behind-the-scenes knowledge.
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And by checking out CSS Tricks. And the historical facts of the week.
