Links from 2012

Standard performance analysis tools like Activity Monitor and top(1) (and any third-party tools based on the same foundation) can’t tell you some key information about activity on your system, such as how much CPU consumption is caused by short-lived processes, or which processes are causing disk I/O. DTrace, however, can see (just about) everything.

Node.js module for delivering optimized, minified, mangled, gzipped, and CDN-hosted assets in Express using S3 and CloudFront

Nice.

Another helpful option is the -n or --no-commit flag. This will simply leave the reverted changes in your working directory and not automatically commit them.

Lifesaver.

"The big change is how IE now interacts with Windows Update: Before you had to opt-in to have "Recommended" updates installed automatically. It's likely few folks did. Now, IE upgrades are shipping as "Important" and this class of updates are defaulted to install automatically. A user can still opt-out and immediately after the announcement of this feature they also published details on how enterprises can opt-out. But still, this is a good move, it helps."

"jQuery 2.0 (early 2013, not long after 1.9): This version will support the same APIs as jQuery 1.9 does, but removes support for IE 6/7/8 oddities such as borked event model, IE7 “attroperties”, HTML5 shims, etc." This is good but I do not look forward to explanation time with clients.

CHEESE.

An HTML5 application (based on <Canvas>) that allows you to create high resolution icons that lets your sites shine with IE9 and above.

A minimal AMD API implementation for use after optimized builds

As of jQuery 1.8, you can build a custom version of jQuery that excludes one or more modules if you do not need their functionality. This capability is made easy by our new build system based on Ben Alman’s awesome grunt tool. To build your own custom version, set up a copy of the jQuery core repo from Github and use the grunt command line options to exclude modules.

"It's been spun as "transforming the surrounding area into a vibrant new metropolitan quarter", whereas in reality it's just an aerial sideshow to lure tourists somewhere new. The engineering's an impressive achievement, to be sure, and you'll probably come once for a ride and help make it an overnight success. But Boris's unholy alliance of public money and corporate branding is more about making a statement than fulfilling a need, and hangs uncomfortably across East London's skyline."

About a billion weird/useful git & github tips.

Much fabric goodness here.

A webkit web client written in python.

Good idea, annoying PDF and KML execution.

site-wide website markup validator

Attempt at doing ImageOptim on the command line. Execution is a bit flaky but idea is sound.

Helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.

[this is good]

"A simple PHP 5 framework to create RESTful web applications

A Fabric based tool for setting up Python WSGI apps on Supervisord, Nginx, Ubuntu and Gunicorn

Alternative to localtunnel?

Looks rather good.