Monthly notes 37

January is turning over to February and Winter with freezing weather and lots of snow has enlightened our days. Here’s some reading for the moments when Winter wonderland is too much and warm mug of coffee and fireplace is the place to be.

Issue 37, 31.1.2019

Web and mobile development

PWAs on iOS 12.2 beta: the good, the bad, and the “not sure yet if good”
“The first beta of iOS 12.2: the first version since PWA support that responds to all the critics by offering solutions to the two biggest problems on PWAs on iOS.”

Finally iOS gets some much needed PWA features. Is this the year of PWAs 🤔 https://t.co/uHn1r7J7ic
— Marko Wallin (@walokra) January 28, 2019

Hartington’s tweet’s thread has some information.

Microservices

https://twitter.com/rdodev/status/1086988853867614208

Choose your tools wisely.

Tools of the trade

https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1084554101625626624

Lifehack.

Using Comic strips and Storyboards to test your UX Concepts https://t.co/82h0zSAq5i
— Sidebar (@SidebarIO) January 8, 2019

“To test the flow of a potential scenario, storyboarding and comics can really add an extra dimension that your users can relate to (or not) and provide feedback on the types of activities, thoughts and feelings they would be experiencing along the way. “

Privacy and security

“Interesting“ details in the thread and in the article 🙄 Reads more like fiction but you couldn’t make this up with all the ways FB tricks users to gather data. https://t.co/XpGyhxdTip
— Marko Wallin (@walokra) January 30, 2019

Security trends to pay attention to in 2019 and beyond: https://t.co/XbmPlSZ6Sc. tl; dr; stronger 2SV methods, towards passwordless era, zero trust architectures, machine learning in IAM, injecting vulnerabilities into open-source.
— Marko Wallin (@walokra) January 26, 2019

Something different

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/1080461196271198208