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The Radar: May 14, 2015

May 14th, 2015 - by Objective - Salt Lake City, Utah

Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.

Backbone Forms

By default, Backbone lacks data binding between your data domain and your views. This small library helps bridge the gap by providing an easy and declarative way to render forms.

Backbone Forms

Sketch for Designers

Sketch, our new favorite design tool, is popular elsewhere.

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Piano App

This app lets you skip real piano lessons and play classical piano pieces using your keyboard. It’s not about what keys you hit, just the timing of your keystrokes.

Piano App

Electron

Electron is a way to package desktop applications backed by node.js. It is currently used in the atom.io editor and for slack’s client.

Electron

Language and World View

The language you speak can affect how you view the world.

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Brand Evolution

A bit of discussion about how brands can evolve to stay current, yet consistent.

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Freeze Your Keys

To protect from thieves, you may want to start keeping your key fob in your freezer if you own a newer car with keyless entry.

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Tips for a Fast Vagrant Environment

If you’re using Vagrant for your development environments, Rails projects that compile Sass and CoffeeScript on each page refresh can load very slowly. Here are three things you can do to speed it up.

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Lilly

A drone with a camera that follows you.

Lilly

100 Days of Fonts

Do-Hee Kim is showcasing a different Google font pairing every day for 100 days.

100 Days of Fonts