Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 27 posts.
This science fiction / comedy / completely serious talk traces the history of JavaScript, and programming in general, from 1995 until 2035. It's not pro- or anti-JavaScript; the language's flaws are discussed frankly, but its ultimate impact on the industry is tremendously positive. For Gary's more serious (and less…
Let me open with an apology to John Gruber for my previous blog post. We’ve been working on the Standard Markdown project for about two years now. We invited John Gruber, the original creator of Markdown, to join the project via email in November 2012, but never heard back.
Noteworthy display sizes of monitors, PCs, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches and HMDs. Link background color takes into account typical viewing distance:
This is an interesting demonstration of the capabilities of afl ; I was actually pretty surprised that it worked! $ mkdir in_dir $ echo ' h...
Originally published on CodeGangsta on May 19, 2014. Restored here to preserve the legacy Martini/Golang archive. It’s never easy to take honest criticism, especially when the target of the criticism…
All signs seem to indicate that Apple will finally ship IndexedDB in Safari 7.1 sometime this year. This means that Safari, the last holdout against IndexedDB,…
A blog for third-party developers on the Clover POS platform.
Scroll-based interaction is incredibly popular for interactive storytelling . There are many compelling reasons for this, yet scrolling is surprisingly nuanced and easy to break. So here are five rules for employing scrolling effectively.
7 actionable principles for websites that want to make use of JavaScript to control their UI and deliver the best performance
A summary of common idioms and visual language found in Chinese smartphone apps.
Update: Together with Udacity I created a free offline-first interactive course . It involves taking an online-only site to full offline-first glory. Many of the patterns in this article are used.
Developing Opinions - A blog by Jimmy Breck-McKye
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, …
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
In the old days In the old days we had some really awful JS being written on pages in a pretty ad-hoc fashion and it caused us huge problems. Presumably most people still do this but they're the same...
There’s some really cool stuff going on on the ASP.NET and Web Tools team. The ...
wingolog: article: generators in firefox now twenty-two times faster
The issues of this pattern are now widely recognized, but what’s the real solution?
Broccoli is an asset pipeline for building JS+CSS apps running in the browser. Read about the architecture, and how it compares to other build tools.
I'm switching my node code from callbacks to promises. The reasons aren't merely aesthetical, they're rather practical:
Amber on Rails
