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The Radar: November 30, 2016

November 30th, 2016 - by Michelle Mann - 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.

Browser Frame

This free tool helps you easily wrap screenshots in different browser frames. Supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and more.

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CSS Reference

A great visual reference guide for all those CSS properties that you don’t know or forgot how to use.

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Ruby 3×3

A transcript of an interview with Matz, Koichi, and Tenderlove on the progress they’re making on Ruby 3×3 performance.

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React Native Animatable

Animations can be a little bit tricky in React Native. This library helps simplify your life by providing a standard set of animations for your use.

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Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is a service from Amazon which provides simple virtual private servers. It’s similarly priced to Digital Ocean.

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React Native Fabric

A React Native package which provides native bindings for both Crashlytics and Answers. Crashlytics reports errors and exceptions thrown by your mobile application and Answers allows you to gather analytics.

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The Balanced Ternary Machines of Soviet Russia

An early Russian computer, the Setun, used “balanced ternary” instead of binary numbers. Only about 50 machines were produced. Ultimately, these machines were replaced with binary counterparts that were able to calculate with similar efficiency but at more than twice the cost of operation.

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Mitsuku Chatbot

Mitsuku has won awards for being the “most human-like chatbot.” One person even spent nine hours straight chatting with it. Mitsuku’s learning agorithm only allows her to learn facts for the user who teaches her. She emails Steve Worswick, her creator, with any information she learns and he decides whether to add it to her permanent knowledge.

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