002. Prince Bay 中
The cover shows tulips at Prince Bay in Hangzhou. It’s incredibly beautiful and usually blooms in late March/early April—perfect for a spring outing next year.
Record the trending technologies seen every week, and publish them here after screening. Follow to stay trendy.
Good Reads and Learning
- FormRender: The Form Solution to Save Your Overtime: An easy-to-use form engine open-sourced by the Fliggy team. Learn how to generate custom form interfaces from JSON Schema and the philosophy behind it.
- Master Git Commands with One Mind Map: Practically everything you need to know about Git operations and principles in one article.
- A Review of Web Worker Literature: A deep dive from the AlloyTeam covering everything about Web Workers. Worth reading three times.
- Introduction to Threads: Another AlloyTeam gem that explains the underlying principles of threading using JavaScript as a guide.
- iOS Keyboard Woes and the VisualViewport API: A potential solution to the ultimate headache for beginner frontend mobile developers.
- On Finally Learning to Program at the Age of 40: A heartfelt reflection from someone who picked up coding later in life.
Design and Inspiration
- TailwindInk: An AI-powered palette generator trained on Tailwind CSS colors. Perfect for when you’re stuck on color choices.
- 2020-2021 User Experience Design Trends (Tencent ISUX): An exploration of future trends in UX across five dimensions: users, devices, interaction, information, and context.
- 2020-2021 Trendy Toy Design Trends (Tencent ISUX): Designers are truly the masters of trendiness.
- The Simple Joys of Men (Zhihu): Trust me, you need to click this. Mechanical intricacies are incredibly satisfying!
- How Reddit Reached 50 Million Downloads via Terrible Web UX: A cheeky look at how frustrating H5 experiences can drive app downloads (something another popular forum knows all about).
- Snake in a QR Code: Brilliant engineering—putting a whole game into a QR code. Online version here.
Open Source and Tools
- Dear PyGui: A powerful and easy-to-use Python GUI framework. For frontend devs, it’s a surprising look at how other languages handle view layout.
- VS Code Debug Visualizer: Visualizes your debugging process step-by-step. Perfect for complex logical operations.
- InfoSpider: An open-source crawler toolbox designed to help users take back their own data securely and analyze it with visual charts.
- Jira Clone: A full-stack React/Node implementation of Jira. Great starting point for anyone building a task tracker.
- Moon: Claims to be the smallest and fastest functional view framework at just 2KB.
iOS and Multi-Platform
- Exploring the Modern Mobile Web: An iOS engineer’s take on all the trendy modern network protocols.
- Learning AR: Reflections on My Journey: With AR becoming a highlight in Apple events, here is a client-side perspective on its future. Also check out Fliggy’s AR and On-Device AI practices.
- Understanding iOS Runtime: A challenging but rewarding read that serves as a gateway to deeper iOS knowledge.
- When Widgets Meet Intelligence: Further exploration into the creative possibilities of the new iOS 14 widgets.
- Flutter Dynamic Practices at Meituan Waimai: A very deep dive into implementing dynamic features in Flutter—highly recommended for infra engineers.