Links from 2014

<blockquote>A bookmarklet to create a front-end performance heatmap of resources loaded in the browser using the Resource Timing API.</blockquote>

Not that flexible, but better than fixed partials.

Also sneaky.

If you're a front end web developer, alert boxes and confirmation dialogs are an important tool. This is a fast, good-looking way to ditch `alert()` without much effort.

List of response image services from @grigs

Parallax scrolling

Performance testing tool for Responsive web designs.

<blockquote>Trying to imagine a tech conference that would embody an alternative viewpoint — a more “socialist / social democratic” alternative — actually seems like a good way in. I don’t have to imagine a whole new society and economic model, but only try to imagine what kinds of topics might be talked about at a conference along those lines. Some topics I quickly wrote down...</blockquote>

<blockquote>You don’t need to know all of the use cases, but you do need to know the difference between the two most common use cases in order to know which part of the picture specification will solve your problems. The two common use cases are [...] Resolution switching [and] Art direction.</blockquote>

<blockquote> Alcatel is an embodiment of the new Western neural condition, and at the same time is its mirror. It is transnational, decentralised and emotionally neutral. It feeds on information, has a perpetual urge to upgrade and is always dissatisfied with the present. It exists purely to go forward. It demands and fosters ever more speed; ever more information saturation; and, especially, ever more networks.</blockquote>

An excellent dissection of Scrum...

<blockquote>In other words, in its best-case scenario, Scrum's a dog-and-pony show. But that best-case scenario is rare. In the much more common case, Scrum covers up the inability to recruit (or even recognize) engineering talent, which is currently one of the most valuable things in the world, with a process for managing engineers as if they were cogs in a machine, all of equal value.

And one of the most interesting things about Scrum is that it tries to enhance the accountability of a field of work where both failure and success are obvious to the naked eye - yet I've never encountered any similarly elaborate system of rituals whose major purpose is to enhance the accountability of fields which have actual accountability problems. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Snap provides web developers with a clean, streamlined, intuitive, and powerful API for animating and manipulating both existing SVG content, and SVG content generated with Snap.</blockquote>

Raphaël successor.

<blockquote>We still have to cobble together the solutions that work best in the context of each project, but at least we’re not downloading js/css manually through the browser, or using wget, or writing bash scripts to download/update our client-side dependencies.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Measure between the following elements: images, input-fields, buttons, videos, gifs, text, icons. You can measure everything you see in the browser.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The polyfill service selectively bundles browser polyfills based on the User-Agent header supplied in a request, with the intention of allowing JavaScript and CSS developers to use modern standards in legacy user agents that do not natively support the standard. Think of it like a pair of glasses for your aging browser.</blockquote>

Nuts. Interesting.

<blockquote>I have no clue what the colors Lavender and Mauve look like. You can show me Indigo and I won't know if it's more like Violet or Purple. So I made this little app where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color.</blockquote>

<blockquote>With a mixture of careful argument and finely tuned derision, he debunks a lot of creaky old hokum about the heinousness of splitting an infinitive and why you should write "Karen is smarter than I" rather than "Karen is smarter than me". Yet he is hardly a member of the "Anything goes" school, and he lays down plenty of prescriptions about both the general character of well-wrought prose and its minutiae.</blockquote>