by Ryan Tvenge

Happy Friday folks! A little more fallout from WWDC last week with the usual web news for the week. Enjoy!

  1. Source Maps Are An Insufficient Debugging Format For The Web

    #hotdrama
    Source: fitzgeraldnick.com

  2. Useful Flexbox Technique: Alignment Shifting Wrapping

    This is a great solution to a real problem in rwd!
    Source: css-tricks.com

  3. Apple and Google Race to See Who Can Kill the App First

    Uncle Dave’s thoughts…
    Source: daverupert.com

  4. VersionPress – WordPress Meets Version Control

    This looks really promising!
    Source: www.sitepoint.com

  5. Pushing the limits of :visited with CSS blend modes

    Finally, a good use of :visited!
    Source: stelian.firez.be

  6. How to Upload a File With WordPress’ Secret Native Functions

    This is a little complex but could be useful in some use cases.
    Source: premium.wpmudev.org

  7. Heinz ketchup bottle QR code leads to hardcore porn site

    Here that kids? Never let your high-profile domains expire.
    Source: www.theverge.com

  8. Code Like a Girl

    Great stuff from BuzzFeed
    Source: youtube.com

  9. Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web | TechCrunch

    All-around win for the web.
    Source: techcrunch.com

  10. Apple News And The Open Web

    The proprietary nature of Apple News is a bit troublesome, but the fact they are using JSON and RSS to drive content to this platform sure helps us easily add our content to it.
    Source: bitsplitting.org

  11. Apple News to Have Human Editors, Curation

    So how much of this is automated then? If they have a ton of RSS feeds getting piped in, how do they keep up on that?
    Source: 9to5mac.com

  12. WebKit Blog on Safari Content Blocking Extensions

    Interesting stance from Apple on ad-blocking.
    Source: www.webkit.org

  13. Dropbox now lets you request files from anyone, even if they don’t use Dropbox

    Awesome feature for those less-savvy clients you need to get files from.
    Source: www.theverge.com

  14. The creation of the modern laptop

    “It contains so many advanced components that there isn’t a single person on the planet who knows how to make the entire thing from scratch.”
    Source: arstechnica.com

  15. The state of Web Components

    It’s still a thing
    Source: hacks.mozilla.org

  16. Open Sourcing Is No Longer Optional, Not Even for Apple

    Apple open-sourced Swift so we would use it more and we’ll only use it if we can use it whereever and however we want. Let’s jsut hope Apple doesn’t pull a “Android-Style” open-source style (aka won’t take anyone’s code).
    Source: www.wired.com

  17. Apple Is Going to Kill the Home Screen

    “You’re not just talking about the end of the home screen—you’re talking about the end of apps themselves.” Wait, now is death of apps not the web? ::sigh::
    Source: www.wired.com

  18. Why Web Design is Dead | UX Magazine

    #hotdrama
    Source: uxmag.com

  19. Customizer Code Examples on GitHub

    This is great for WordPress Customizer adoption! Death to Theme Options. 🙂
    Source: make.wordpress.org

  20. iOS 9 beta has a secret keyboard that’s perfect for a larger iPad | The Verge

    Get ready for the iPad Pro. It looks like it’s going to happen.
    Source: www.theverge.com

  21. Paul Ford: What is Code? | Bloomberg

    A very elementary explanation of what code is. This is worth reading.
    Source: www.bloomberg.com