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.
EmailHooks
This is a SAAS based tool for sending dynamic emails triggered by Stripe events.
Rubocop
How to integrate rubocop into your development workflow to make your code cleaner (or to keep it clean).
Read and Understand Code Faster
Fira Code is a font that extends Mozilla’s popular Fira Mono font. By making use of ligatures this font combines common character sequences that represent single logical tokens into one character.
Huggable: A Robot for Pediatric Cancer Wards
Huggable is a stuffed animal robot with phone app placed inside it so it can emotionally connect with young cancer patients. It’s primary objective is to make sure that the children feel comfortable.
JSBlocks
This is a new Javascript MVC framework with a syntax like Angular, but is faster than both Angular and React. It also gives clear and concise debugging output. JSBlocks looks like it has some nice features and a small learning curve, but with so many similar projects already out there, I’m not sure if developers are willing to pick up yet another one.
The Internet Revolution: Third Wave
Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, explains the evolution of the internet and how it is about to change again. Get ready, the third wave is here.
Font Solutions
Fontstand is a Mac app that lets you try fonts for free or rent them for a month.
Need Heat?
Host a cloud server in your home and get free heating. It is called the Nerdalize eRadiator. (Oh, but you’ve got to move to the Netherlands first.)