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.
How Facebook Live Streams to 800,000 Simultaneous Viewers
Learn how Facebook handles live streaming to hundreds of thousands of viewers at a time.
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Teach Kids to Code
Google announced Project Bloks, an open hardware platform, which helps kids learn to code.
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The Importance of Code Review
Excellent article about why we need code review and how to get it done.
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Improving CSS quality at Facebook and Beyond
Learn about Facebook’s process of improving their css code linter by using some third party tools.
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Migration Code Review
This is a list of things to check when reviewing your own, or others’, migrations code.
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Presenting Creative Work
Nothing is worse than an unfocused design review. This article gives tips on how to present concepts to clients.
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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.
Alloy
Alloy web browser. Browse with purpose my friend.
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Quiver
A note taking app that allows you to mix plain text with markdown, code, and diagrams.
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Bullshit Complex
Some people fall into the trap of thinking that talking about work is as valuable as doing work.
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Pokémon Go
Ingress gets a companion (or competitor) in the augmented reality playing field. Makes our little experiment many years ago with robots stomping around on a Google map look downright lame.
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A Protocol for Dying
Pieter Hintjens, the author if ZeroMQ and the creator of many developer communities, is dying. This is his take on how to die, and how to talk to someone who is dying.
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Monads in JavaScript
A design pattern used to describe computations as a series of steps.
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Boxy SVG
Create SVG in the browser, without Illustrator or Sketch.
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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.
Sublime Tutor
An interactive tutor for anyone who wants to learn how to use Sublime.
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Hazel
Hazel is a Mac app for automating file and folder tasks.
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Google Has Open Sourced SyntaxNet
Google open sourced SyntaxNet, its natural language processing AI engine for Siri. It parses sentences in an effort to understand how to create real meaning from the words you speak.
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CSS Purge
Scores of 40 sites on how much their CSS is out of control. The animated background is giving us the crawlies, but the information is very interesting.
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Applying Neuroscience to Software Development
This is a short piece that discusses how the brain works and how we can apply those facts to how we program. The moral of the story is don’t multitask!
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Reality is Messy
It’s not possible to fit each client into the same box. Although we may strive for absolute perfection, learning and becoming better each day means you’re on the right track.
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