Cool Things of the Week (Web Design Edition #7)

Fun fact in history this week: On the 21st of September, 1912 Charles “Chuck” Jones was born in Spokane, Washington. He is an animator and cartoonist best know for his work with Warner Bros (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Porky Pig). The featured picture shows Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

Here are the news and updates for this week, 2018:

Here is a guide with the basic web architecture concepts that you should understand as a developer.

web-architecture — Modern web application architecture overview from the article.

Google continues to push AMP. One part of its mission is trying to upgrade emails to the new standard. People are not happy about it.

A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the WebKit rendering engine used by Safari that crashes and restarts the iOS operating system used by iPhones and iPads.
This illustrated guide on how HTTPS works is funny and easy to understand. It can help you learn about the basics of privacy, integrity and identification.

NucleoApp created a step-by-step guide on how to create human-figure icons.

human-icons — Human figure icons from the article.

George W. Park made a 3D Emoji Town with pure CSS. It’s pretty awesome.

And Adam Quinlan created a nice CodePen with an animated 500 error page.

The resources featured in this blog post are the result of us browsing some interesting parts of the internet. You can get connected and updated by subscribing to these sub-reddits:

And by checking out CSS Tricks. And the historical facts of the week.

Cristina Conacel

Cristina is a web developer and the owner of BootstrapBay. She likes foxes, clean design, writing blog posts and creating themes that are useful to other developers.