From time to time, we need to take some time off, and actually, I’m glad that this reading list is a bit shorter as the ones you’re used to.

• Taking Pattern Libraries To The Next Level¹
• Designing Modular UI Systems Via Style Guide-Driven Development²
• How To Maximize Your Creative Energy³
• ECMAScript 6 (ES6): What’s New In The Next Version Of JavaScript⁴

News Link

• The next major release of Angular, Angular 4.0⁵, is now available. It’s smaller and faster than it’s predecessor and ships flat ES modules.

Concept & Design Link

• Nathan Curtis shares an approach to get your web design Murfreesboro Tennessee team started with building components⁶.

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Security Link

• There’s a new security header called Expect-CT. Scott Helme explains when and how you should use it¹⁰.
• I bet many people here have a Samsung TV. And while there are currently not many phones out there from this vendor that run on Tizen, a lot of TVs do. Now, security researchers have found some quite interesting things¹¹ about Tizen’s security¹², including vulnerabilities that can give full access to the device and ways to embed malicious code into the system through the app store.

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Privacy Link

• In the past, we tended to teach people to use a VPN if they wanted to stay secure. But now we know that by far not all VPN services have good intentions¹⁶. Some even inject advertising and privacy-leaking data into your network requests or sell your history to third parties.

JavaScript Link

• Nicolás Bevacqua wrote about regular expressions in a post-ES6 world¹⁷, including the new Unicode flag, the matchAll function, and assertions.

Work & Life Link

• Eric Karjaluoto shares why we need to slow down¹⁸, and why taking pride in how busy we are is one of the worst ideas we ever had. What if the best thing you can do for your career — and life — is to press pause, set your number one priority, and then rethink your way of working?

And with that, I’ll close for this week. If you like what I write each week, please support me with a donation¹⁹ or share this resource with other people. You can learn more about the costs of the project here²⁰. It’s available via email, RSS and online.

— Anselm