AngularJS Pain Points A write-up by Jaco Pretorius. I agree with him on the documentation, and I (admittedly, sadly) don't have enough experience with the testing aspect to have an opinion there, but I'd be willing to split hairs on the "overall complexity" complaint. Given my experience so far, I would say that the trivial […]
Photographers, embrace Instagram Richard Koci Hernandez, at CNN.com. Great piece on Instagram and "phone photography" more generally. Photo apps won't magically give Jane the smartphone photographer a better sense of composition, or lighting, or framing. The apps and filters only change a photo's look and aesthetic feel. That doesn't make it a better photo. If […]
Sass Tutorials A video series on YouTube re: using Sass. (tagged: video SCSS CSS Sass ) Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming By Stephen Wyatt Bush. Good advice, no matter what field you're in. (tagged: essay advice programming ) Prismatic Architecture: Using Machine Learning on Social Networks to Figure Out What You Should […]
Could You Build a Scale Lego Model of the Death Star? at Wired Science: So, for all the pieces this would cost about 9.8 x 1012 US dollars, yes almost 10 trillion dollars. (tagged: humor LEGO Star Wars ) Multi-Device Layout Patterns Luke W. on responsive layout patterns. (tagged: todo essay webdev design responsive ) […]
Thoughts on a (very) small project with Backbone and Backbone Boilerplate Rebecca Murphey on Backbone.js: My biggest complaint about Backbone is probably how unopinionated it is about the view layer. (tagged: Rebecca Murphey JavaScript Backbone.js ) Dan Awesome’s Rage Maker And as long as we're raging out with Rage Face memes… (tagged: weird internet humor […]
Valid JavaScript variable names Mathias Bynens going deep on the sometimes confusing world of JavaScript variable names. (tagged: javascript ) David Foster Wallace: The Big, Uncut Interview (2003) At Open Culture (via @fogus) (tagged: video culture interview politics literature David Foster Wallace ) Is Device-Friendly Development a Responsibility? Some musings from local dev Mike Fowler […]
jQuery Testing with Jasmine (tagged: javascript video testing jQuery todo ) HTML Wiki W3C's HTML Wiki — like documentation, and arguably more readable than the specifications. (tagged: html5 web html documentation )
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Scale by Brad Goodspeed (via Warren Ellis)
Who the hell ever heard of “octopodes�