How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?
https://medium.com/@shevski/how-solid-is-tims-plan-to-redecentralize-the-web-b163ba78e835
Solid is a W3C endorsed linked data personal data store (PDS) that puts control into the hands of the user, and Inrupt is the first commercial offer to build on it. However, I’m concerned Solid is ill-equipped to tackle the challenges of the data ownership space and deliver impact. This article explores some of the problems PDSs face and suggests we need a strategic approach that’s user centered, systemic and allows for a diversity of approaches to overcome centralisation.

Plans for the Next Iteration of Vue.js
https://medium.com/the-vue-point/plans-for-the-next-iteration-of-vue-js-777ffea6fabf
Vue 3.0 aims to leverage these new language features to make Vue core smaller, faster, and more powerful. Vue 3.0 is currently in prototyping phase, and we have already implemented a runtime close to feature-parity with 2.x. Many of the items listed below are either already implemented, or confirmed to be feasible. Ones that are not yet implemented or still in exploration phase are marked with a *.

When a bar chart isn’t enough… Morph helps you turn data into art
https://medium.com/google-news-lab/when-a-bar-chart-isnt-enough-morph-helps-you-turn-data-into-art-986e41a33837
Sometimes a bar chart just won’t do. Sometimes you want to see data presented in a new way, a way it just hasn’t been shown as before. That’s where Morph comes in. Morph is a brand new tool, built by data studio Datavized, to allow anyone to create their own computer-generated data art project.

Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with real-time collaboration
https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lessons-learned-from-creating-a-rich-text-editor-with-real-time-collaboration/
This article describes how we approached the problem and what challenges we had to overcome in order to provide real-time collaborative editing capable of handling rich text. Check it out if you are interested in: Learning what problems you may face when implementing real-time collaborative editing; Building a rich-text editor with support for real-time collaboration; How we approached collaborative editing in CKEditor 5.

RESTful API 最佳实践
http://www.ruanyifeng.com/blog/2018/10/restful-api-best-practices.html
RESTful 是目前最流行的 API 设计规范，用于 Web 数据接口的设计。它的大原则容易把握，但是细节不容易做对。本文总结 RESTful 的设计细节，介绍如何设计出易于理解和使用的 API。

Best design practices to get the most out of your API
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/best-design-practices-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-api
Practical techniques to ensure developers can actually do the things you want them to do using your API.

The Shapes of CSS
https://css-tricks.com/the-shapes-of-css/
We also get the ::before and ::after psuedo elements in CSS, which give us the potential of two more shapes we can add to the original element. By getting clever with positioning, transforming, and many other tricks, we can make lots of shapes in CSS with only a single HTML element.

On Node Framework Popularity
https://hueniverse.com/on-node-framework-popularity-355fbde5cbe4
Much of the conversation about choosing an HTTP framework for your node.js application is about performance, features, stability, and support. But when almost every framework available delivers enterprise-grade performance, cutting edge features, and are generally well maintained, do the technical specs really matter that much? 另附：awesome-nodejs.

Porting a 75,000 line native iOS app to Flutter
https://medium.com/flutter-community/porting-a-75-000-line-native-ios-app-to-flutter-57c6571c57b4
Not much has been written about porting large apps to Flutter. When I did it I was surprised at the results.

A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript's Prototype
https://tylermcginnis.com/beginners-guide-to-javascript-prototype/
In this post you’ll learn about a variety of patterns for instantiating new objects and in doing so, you’ll be gradually led to understanding JavaScript’s prototype in depth.

A Brief History of High Availability
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/brief-history-high-availability/
In this post, we want to take a look at how distributed databases have historically handled partial failures within a system and understand––at a high level––what high availability looks like.

The interesting ideas in Datasette
https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/
Datasette is my open source tool for exploring and publishing structured data. There are a lot of ideas embedded in Datasette. I realized that I haven’t put many of them into writing.

Validating performance and reliability of the new Dropbox search engine
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/10/validating-performance-and-reliability-of-the-new-dropbox-search-engine/
In our previous post, we discussed the architecture of our new search engine, named Nautilus, and its use of machine intelligence to scale our search–ranking and content–understanding models. Along with best–in–class performance, scalability, and reliability, we also provided a foundation for implementing intelligent document ranking and retrieval features. This flexible system allows our engineers to easily customize the document–indexing and query–processing pipelines while maintaining strong safeguards to preserve the privacy of our users’ data. In this post, we will discuss the process that we undertook to ensure optimal performance and reliability.

Open-sourcing StateService: Automating recovery of third-party services after a major outage
https://code.fb.com/open-source/stateservice/
StateService is self-documenting — the individual states become part of configuration management (CM) software, such as a Chef cookbook. By replaying the states that were previously applied to a VM (or a group of VMs), StateService returns services to their last-known state.

Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
http://www.doxsey.net/blog/kubernetes--the-surprisingly-affordable-platform-for-personal-projects
Kubernetes makes sense for small projects and you can have your own Kubernetes cluster today for as little as $5 a month. 另附：Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks!

Node + JS Foundation
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news/2018/10/node-js-foundation-and-js-foundation-announce-intent-to-create-joint-organization-to-support-the-broad-node-js-and-javascript-communities/
https://blog.npmjs.org/post/178734613655/node-js-foundation
Today, JavaScript is nearly ubiquitous. Enterprises have been able to greatly reduce training costs and increase developer productivity because frontend JS developers can work on the server side, and vice-versa, eliminating the context switches and enabling all developers to pull from the same knowledge base and vast module ecosystem. Node.js is a major catalyst for this growth. It has become an important part of the modern web development stack and is often the assumed default when working with JavaScript. Merging the Foundations will bring the governance of these technologies in line with its real-world use.

Create React App 2.0
https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/10/01/create-react-app-v2.html
Babel 7, Sass, and More.

PM2 Runtime - 3.2
https://blog.pm2.io/pm2-runtime-3-2-autumn-features/
PM2 we have 3 differents products: PM2 Runtime, the Open Source process manager (which this article is about); PM2 Plus, a self service monitoring system dedicated to PM2 Runtime; PM2 Enterprise, a package containing support, feature requests and advanced monitoring system.

13 Games in ≤ 13kB of JavaScript · js13kGames 2018
https://blog.github.com/2018-10-05-js13kgames-highlights-2018/
As the seventh annual js13kGames competition comes to a close, a grand total of 274 games were submitted. Even more impressive, each one was created in a single month, using less than 13 kB. We rounded up a few of our favorites featuring a number of different styles and genres.

Sal
https://github.com/mciastek/sal
Performance focused, lightweight (less than 2.8 kb) scroll animation library, written in vanilla JavaScript. No dependencies!

imgToAscii
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/imgToAscii
A JavaScript implementation of a image to ascii converter.

SVGR
https://github.com/smooth-code/svgr
Transform SVGs into React components.

awesome-vscode
https://github.com/viatsko/awesome-vscode
A curated list of delightful VS Code packages and resources.

husky
https://github.com/typicode/husky
Husky can prevent bad git commit, git push and more 🐶 ❤️ woof! To all the amazing people who have answered the Husky survey, thanks so much <3 !

RediSQL
https://redisql.com/
RediSQL, SQL steroids for Redis. The power of SQL with the simplicty of Redis: fast & reliable. RediSQL add simple commands to your Redis giving it the ability to store, manage and retrieve more structured data.

Brigadier
https://github.com/Mojang/brigadier Brigadier is a command parser & dispatcher, designed and developed for Minecraft: Java Edition and now freely available for use elsewhere under the MIT license.

Introducing dav1d: a new AV1 decoder
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2018/Introducing-dav1d AV1 is a new video codec by the Alliance for Open Media, composed of most of the important Web companies (Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Mozilla...). AV1 has the potential to be up to 20% better than the HEVC codec, but the patents license is totally free, while HEVC patents licenses are insanely high and very confusing.

Sourcegraph is now open source
https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph Sourcegraph is a fast, open-source, fully-featured code search and navigation engine.

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ A free online operating systems book! The book is centered around three conceptual pieces that are fundamental to operating systems: virtualization, concurrency, and persistence. In understanding the conceptual, you will also learn the practical, including how an operating system does things like schedule the CPU, manage memory, and store files persistently. Lots of fun stuff! 另附：Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”?

The Psychology of Design
https://alistapart.com/article/psychology-of-design
There are a number of debates about which additional skills designers should learn. Should designers code, write, or understand business? These skills are incredibly valuable but perhaps not essential. However, I would argue that every designer should learn the fundamentals of psychology. But knowing where to start can be a challenge. Which principles from psychology are useful? What are some examples of these principles at work? In this article, I’ll cover the basics, and discuss the ethical implications of using psychology in design.

Product Design by Google
https://blog.prototypr.io/product-design-by-google-part-4-eca8d846301f
The ‘Product Design by Google’ course is a great course and you shouldn’t entirely rely on these notes, these notes are helpful if you don’t have the time to do the course and would like a bit of a rundown. They’re also useful if you have completed the course and would like notes to help retain what you’ve learnt.

Designing Perceptions Instead of Solutions
https://uxplanet.org/designing-perspectives-instead-of-solutions-6afb4b03c1a5
Why a solution to a problem in the 21st century may not be the answer.

Framer X + React: Diversity Initiative
https://blog.framer.com/framer-x-react-diversity-initiative-c3c5045829b2
We’ve set aside 10 passes that will cover the cost of Framer X + React. With each of these passes we’ll also be giving away a free one-year subscription to Framer X. 另附：The New Framer X: Initial Impressions

Why I feel UX design should really be called User Engagement Design
https://uxdesign.cc/why-i-feel-ux-design-should-really-be-called-user-engagement-design-4895188f7e86
Audacity and Humility are traits I would associate with User Engagement Design; thus I feel like User Experience Design could potentially morph into User Engagement Design as we begin to step back and take a more macro big-picture view of what the profession truly is doing.

TiddlyWiki
https://tiddlywiki.com/ A unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information. TiddlyWiki is a complete interactive wiki in JavaScript. It can be used as a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful Node.js application. It is highly customisable: the entire user interface is itself implemented in hackable WikiText.

层层而上的互联网生态圈
http://www.geekpark.net/news/233529
中心化的科技巨头早已渗透到了互联网的层层面面，为什么原本去中心化的互联网「沦落」到如今需要奔走呼号，呼吁去中心化的互联网？《经济学人》这篇文章从互联网诞生时的架构设计结合数字经济学中「网络效应」和「连锁效应」给出了答案；在政治和互联网的关系如此密切的当下，孕育出了 Clicktivism（网络点击行动主义）和克它的 Bot，这二者对政治产生了怎样的影响？前不久的 Linux 社区之争，掀开了科技行业长久以来的观念冲突：多样化和能力到底哪个摆在首要位置……

“乔布斯宿敌”：安卓之父的苦情创业史
https://www.huxiu.com/article/265455.html
从最初的处处碰壁发展到现如今市场份额最高的手机操作系统，安卓走过了风雨十年。而作为改变全球IT产业格局的人之一，鲁宾创业的脚步从未停下。如果要用一句话来形容“安卓之父”鲁宾，那大概是：生命不息，折腾不止。

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