Links from 2015

1. About this book 2. Deploying ECMAScript 6 2.2 Transpilation tools 2.5 Are there ES6 features that can’t be transpiled to ES5? 3. Babel setups for browsers…

Generally the phrases knocking around in my head at this time of year are of a cheery, convivial nature – “Merry Christmas”; “Happy New Year”; “Another Baileys?…

Simplified and community-driven man pages Usage Run in live demo or your terminal. tldr tar tldr tar command output Installation Install the NodeJS client npm…

A quick plug for the Mac app Ulysses which has totally upended my writing workflow in the last few months. Brilliant -- the first tool I've found that fits the…

When starting new projects, a CSS builder’s initial concerns tend to involve typography. Setting a typographic foundation with the right mixture of ingredients…

I like CSS pseudo-classes. They come in handy for adding little enhancements to interfaces based on interaction. Take the form-related pseudo-classes, for…

PostStylus is a PostCSS adapter for Stylus. With it you can use any PostCSS plugin as a transparent Stylus plugin, and do custom post-processing of Stylus…

<blockquote>This meant letting go of pixel-level beauty to create something bigger and harder: a system of elements that work together in harmony in many contexts. The visual style exists to guide the users. When done well, it becomes a language that users understand, so when they encounter a new feature or have a new goal, they already feel comfortable navigating it.</blockquote>

Update outdated npm modules with zero pain™ Based on npm outdated , updtr installs the latest version and runs npm test for each dependency. If the test…

The following is a guest post by Emil Björklund. Filter effects in CSS have been around for a while, and together with things like blend modes, they bring new…

(This post was originally published on Medium, put has a permanent home here.) Flexbox—not to be confused with Sex Box , the British TV show wherein Mariella…

One of the libraries to receive a huge amount of focus in 2015 has been ReactJS, a library created by Facebook for building user interfaces and web…

Featured Decking, Fences & Shed Paint Introduction You've invested time and effort into your decking, so naturally you want to make sure it looks its best for…

Having trouble getting a solid, reliable WiFi signal in some parts of your home? A WiFi repeater could be the solution for you. A WiFi repeater or extender is…

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I have been working with Flexbox for the past few months and absolutely loving how easy and intuitive it makes even the most complex of layouts. My CSS was…

Depends in age of child and type of toy. We have Trofast in DS's room and it is absolutely perfect - Duplo, cars, Playmobil bits and bobs (he's 2) and a couple…

Home being built 1. Help to Buy Shared Ownership: current restrictions on who can buy a home through shared ownership will be removed from April 2016 Shared…

2015-11-20 A month ago I announced the /now page movement, where many personal websites are adding a “/now” page to answer the question, “What are you focused…

The govt want to stop business owners being paid via dividends to reduce tax bills. This flies in the face of risk & reward for running a business &…

The energy and enthusiasm at last week’s NHS Innovation Expo was striking – lots of people wanting to exploit the potential of better digital and technology…

Remy posted a screenshot to Twitter last week. That “Add To Home Screen” dialogue is not something that Remy explicitly requested (though, of course, you…

Whenever someone claims there are “two kinds of people in the world” – extroverts and introverts, realists and idealists, optimists and pessimists – you can be…

(Electronics) New life for an old hifi system. Customer rating 5.0/5.0 Amazon Verified Purchase 34 out of 36 found this helpful My music setup is an unashamed…

Skip to content Learn more Please note that GitHub no longer supports old versions of Safari. We recommend upgrading to the latest Safari, Google Chrome, or…

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of…

A Comprehensive Guide to Test-First Development with Redux, React, and Immutable Update 2015-11-06: Updated to the new Babel 6 release . The Babel packages we…

Language defines the life of components. A “blue button” will work until the button is no longer blue—and then the name won’t make sense anymore. The pattern…

Futuristic test runner Even though JavaScript is single-threaded, IO in Node.js can happen in parallel due to its async nature. AVA takes advantage of this and…

How HTML elements are supported by screen readers Typical support patterns of HTML elements by screen readers: Identification of an element by role as the user…

About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp : A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly…

Styling CSS without losing your sanity Reasonable System for CSS Stylesheet Structure. A set of simple ideas to guide your process of building maintainable…

Rain & Water Effect Experiments | Codrops https://t.co/wYwczUUW10 https://t.co/76KyO8ahXr

If there’s one thing you really need to know about PostCSS, it’s that you should learn what it is and how to use it ASAP . In this series, Kezz Bracey takes a…

[this is good] and I will remember more of it in future.

A static website generator to create dynamic website using React components. Note that Statinamic is at an early stage, there is still some work to do, some…

At StaticGen271, our open-source directory of static website generators, we’ve kept track of more than a hundred generators for more than a year now, and we’ve…

mdcss lets you easily create and maintain style guides with CSS comments using Markdown. Add mdcss to your build tool: Add PostCSS to your build tool: Load…

For more background on CSS Image Effects, you can check out my blog series here, or watch my video from CSS Conf EU, which gives a baseline on blend modes and…

Workspaces look useful.

Just last month, 300,748 Sketch designs were exported to Zeplin, turned into powerful specs and resources. AVAILABLE FOR MAC, WEB NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED &…

When people talk about innovation in healthcare, they have in mind a new malaria vaccine or a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. But these breakthroughs, despite the continued investment of hundreds of millions of pounds in research and development, are increasingly rare. The big gains in the future are likely to involve adaptations of existing technology such as mobile phones to enable the delivery of new forms of care in new ways by new players.

Browse vault inventory Freeze keeps track of your vaults' inventories and makes them easily browsable and searchable. Save a few bucks by deleting duplicate…

2015-10-21 People often ask me what I’m doing now. Each time I would type out a reply, describing where I’m at, what I’m focused on, and what I’m not. So…

Last night I installed OSX’s new “El Capitain” update, and it broke most of the tools I use in my daily life as a developer, including homebrew and git. Here…

Discord is always completely free to use with no gotchas. This means you can make as many servers as you want with no slot limitations. Wondering how we’ll make…