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Friday, July 3, 2020

In This Edition:
Home Office Art Ideas, Marianna Mazzucato on state investment, app UI/UX case study, teach yourself computer science, REST API best practices, target _blank security hole, & Find That Pod!

Marianna Mazzucato on State Investment

Image: Wired, Matt Holyoak

Wired published a great profile piece on Marianna Mazzucato, the economist who advises governments on how to encourage innovation through state investment. By tracking back current technologies to their state investment beginnings, her argument proves that innovation comes from ambitious moonshot projects backed by state investment rather than private companies, which may just help us solve the many challenges to come.

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App UI/UX Case Study

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Cedric Joshua Atienza over at Noteworthy published a useful UI/UX case study for designing a small app. The article describes the process from research, surveys and personas, all the way through to wireframes and prototype creation.

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Teach Yourself Computer Science

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Oz Nova and Myles Byrne have put together an amazing list of resources that you can use to teach yourself computer science.

REST API Best Practices

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Need to build a REST API? Who doesn't! Check out this great Stack Overflow blog about the best practices in building REST APIs.

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Target _blank Security Hole

Image: Manjula Dube

Manjule Dube describes how to protect against a security hole when using target="_blank" in HTML links. The fix? Add rel="noopener noreferrer" too.

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Find That Pod

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Find That Pod is a weekly newsletter that recommends 5 or so podcasts to listen to. This is a great way to break out of your existing podcast listening neighbourhood.

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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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