Climb On! by Lisa Katayama, at Boing Boing — Absolutely awesome article. I agree with every word. (Except about the Rubik's cube; I kind of hate the Rubik's cube.) Climbing feels like playing Tetris with my body. (tagged: climbing exercise mental geek ) HTML5 Elements and Attributes (tagged: html5 webdev documentation ) Efficient JavaScript at […]
UglifyJS at GitHub (via Badass JavaScript) — a new minifier/mangler/compressor utility running in Node.js. (tagged: code javascript compression Node.js minify ) A JavaScript implementation of the Content Aware Image Resizing algorithm at Badass JavaScript — this seems to keep coming up… (tagged: canvas html5 javascript image todo ) When does JavaScript trigger reflows and rendering? […]
40 billionaires pledge to donate half their wealth at msnbc.com — Let's check back in annually, shall we? (tagged: blog business news politics society charity ) My Biggest Fear as a Developer… at Beautiful Interfaces (via @rmurphey) (tagged: design ui ux ) HTML5 Fuzzies Zeldman on "HTML5": To encourage what should be encouraged, yet not […]
Perfection kills » How ECMAScript 5 still does not allow to subclass an array at Perfection kills (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: article javascript arrays todo ) HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page at Spoiled Milk ApS (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: HTML5 pushState javascript navigation url ) Diffable (tagged: javascript diff ajax performance […]
Each Second Counts, or Not:
The moral of the story here is to think simple when trying to optimize code, otherwise we end up going to far into optimizing and actually make the code more complex and likely slower, but this does not mean that the code w…
Lightspeed magazine #1 at Tor.com — the online Lightspeed magazine is edited/curated by John Joseph Adams (who happens to be one hell of an editor); check it out and show some support (tagged: Lightspeed scifi literature ) ‘Lost’: The Essential Reading List at EW.com (via B²) (tagged: Lost reading literature ) Do LESS with Less.js […]
JetBrains WebStorm via Ajaxian —"The best IDE for Web development with JavaScript, HTML and CSS" (tagged: css editor html html5 javascript software webdev work todo ) Futuristic mega-projects by Shimizu at Pink Tentacle (via Boing Boing) (tagged: research future architecture design environment energy inspiration scifi sustainability ) A multicellular organism that lives without oxygen at […]
While reading Nicholas Zakas’ High Performance JavaScript, it occurred to me that there were actually two different reviews that I wanted to write. So, rather than try to reconcile them into one review, I’ll simply apply them here as an ordered list. (1) To continue with the JavaScript University metaphor (from my review of Zakas’ […]
Souders blasts off 5 in a row at Ajaxian (tagged: html performance javascript css webdev work todo ) Over Fifteen Pounds of Book!!–Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King at Omnivoracious — looks pretty awesome (tagged: art wishlist ) Comcast enters rebranding territory at The Boston Globe (via /.): W2 Group’s Weber said such a […]
Building Web Applications With Apache Ant at Julien Lecomte's Blog (referenced in Zakas' Professional JavaScript for Web Developers) (tagged: webdev tutorial javascript css ant build performance todo ) Medical journal recants 1998 study linking autism to vaccine – The Globe and Mail via Slashdot: Ten of Wakefield's 13 co-authors renounced the study's conclusions several years […]