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The Radar: June 24, 2015

June 24th, 2015 - by Julie Hale - 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.

The Unexpected Benefits of Anxiety

Don’t be so quick to hate anxiety. Learn how appropriate levels of anxiety can actually improve performance, help you make better decisions, and activate your ninja powers.

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Charles Eames

Quotes by the legendary designer Charles Eames and his philosophy on creativity and education.

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Just Wear Headphones

Open office plans have their benefits, but here are some arguments against it.

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What is Code?

This is a great, in-depth article (mini-book) about the ins and outs of code.

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RunC

RunC is an open container standard that is being developed by Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

runC

WebAssembly

WebAssembly is a spec for more efficient code that the browser can read. Some people are worried that it’ll reduce the transparency of the web, since regular Javascript is pretty human-readable, whereas WebAssembly will not be. However, there are plans to allow the Javascript source code to be sent along with WebAssembly, so site’s source code can still be readable.

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ROT—Redundant, Out-of-Date and Trivial Content

How much is your content costing your company?

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The Joys of Printing

This is a visual reminder that printing is easy and nothing ever goes wrong.

Printing is Easy

Presidential Candidates’ Logos

Enjoy a hilarious but insightful design critique of Presidential Candidates’ logos.

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