Linkdump for December 2nd
¶ by Rob Friesel-
By Mike Cantelon, writing at the StrongLoop blog. This isn't the first time that node-webkit has come across my radar, but this is a good little intro for someone who hasn't heard of it before.
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This website is starting a discussion about mobile first app development that goes beyond shrinking content to phone and tablet screen sizes.
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Frank Chimero:
So now we no longer buy the thing we want, we buy the shape of the thing we prefer.
Fantastic.
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Airbnb was kind enough to share their JS style guide with the world. And since I'm in to this sort of thing… Overall, I like this style guide quite a bit, and it's fairly comprehensive. A couple of observations though:
- No mention of
try-catchor exceptions. (This is one place the Google Style Guide still reins supreme.) - The evidence suggests that using
concat(and notslice) is more performant for copying arrays. (But we're also in the land of diminishing returns at that point…) - I disagree that it's OK to use
NumberandBooleanconstructors for type coercion. It's not strictly wrong but I've written before about situations where they can give you misleading results.
- No mention of
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Matt Mullenweg, interviewed at Business Insider about Automattic ("the WordPress company") and it's company culture. Although a bit short and fluffy, it's still interesting. And/but/however, this quote from Mullenweg stuck out to me:
The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
While this is a nice thought, I think it misses the mark ever-so-slightly. Meritocracies are a nice idea, but are basically bullshit. The notion of "it's what they do" is great, but there's still an element of assessing "who they are" buried in there. (And also: let's not forget that some companies and/or open source projects can still get torpedoed by productive but highly-poisonous people.)
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