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.
Java and Flash Vulnerabilities
Density People Counter
Ever wonder how busy your favorite restaurant, the gym or the DMV are right now? Then check out this really cool ecosystem (hardware and software) for monitoring traffic/occupancy levels in real time.
Zeplin
Zeplin works with Sketch to make handing off designs to developers easier. This great collaboration tool generates styleguides and resources, automatically.
Movie Dilema
Do you ever sit down and wonder which Nicholas Cage movie you should watch? This site will solve all your problems.
BFED—The Boring Front-End Developer
We all need a little BFED on our team to keep us grounded. Their practicality ensures sites are funtional and user-friendly, not just pretty.
S2N
Amazon just released their own (somewhat simplified) implementation of the TLS protocol (SSL), called S2N. It is a much smaller codebase than OpenSSL’s (6000 lines vs 500,000 lines), so it’s much easier to review for security vulnerabilities and much easier to maintain. It will be used in their services soon.
Lucky Iron Fish
This company is using innovation to change the world—and is receiving many design awards in the process. All you do is boil it in lemon water for 10 minutes and you can get almost a day’s worth of iron. What a great way to help third world countries (and all of us) solve iron deficiencies. Watch this video.
History of Innovation
Take this tour through the history of innovation while enjoy its creative design and fantastic animations.
Kallithea
This is an open source version of the previously open source (and now paid) repository hosting application Rhodecode. It has features similar to Bitbucket and Github, like code reviews and creating pull requests, except you host it yourself.
Think Fast!
This article shows how to make use of heuristics (mental shortcuts) in digital design for better UX.
Tracking & Character Spacing in iOS
This is an explanation of the difference between tracking in Photoshop and character spacing in Sketch, how to convert from one to another, and how to represent it in your code.