Making the crowd easier to follow
Keep up to date with what is going on in the web industry with this digest of your top 100 frontend peers on twitter.
I wrote my first book today. Here it is in its entirety… pic.twitter.com/emRbyrZiUe
Holy crap, groundbreaking PR from Microsoft: "Enable Node.js to run with Microsoft's ChakraCore engine" github.com/nodejs/node/pu…
display: contents; Act as if the element is replaced by its children. Really useful for responsive designs. drafts.csswg.org/css-display/#b…
good news, Brotli compression is coming to a Chrome browser near you! intent to ship, with LGTMs: bit.ly/1ZzyntC ... \o/
Oh captain, my captain! remysharp.com/2016/01/20/why…
Motion with Meaning: Semantic Animation in Interface Design @tobias_bernard @aminalhazwani alistapart.com/article/motion… pic.twitter.com/Uvr7YYhuPu
Everything that’s wrong with browser detection in one screenshot. Use progressive enhancement. It’s more robust. pic.twitter.com/Y5stl10J90
Still coming back to this: twitter.com/brad_frost/sta… Use flexbox for over-arching page layout? Or stick to floats until grid matures?
Uninstalling Facebook for Android is great (because in Chrome, their mobile site has all the core features) androidcentral.com/it-turns-out-u…
Lots of good tips here for building full stack JS at high velocity as practiced at @MLS, written by @kurtiskemple: labs.mlssoccer.com/javascript-at-…
Pa11y: Automated accessibility testing pa11y.org
When you’re adding dependencies to your package.json file… #bloat pic.twitter.com/z1OeU93kfH
Intent to deprecate and remove appcache from insecure origins groups.google.com/a/chromium.org… - appcache should never have worked over plain http
The JavaScript diet: The Financial Times adopts a 'culture of subtraction' to boost page speed digiday.com/publishers/fin… #perfmatters
Quick fact sheet I used to brief people on what CharkraCore in Node.js offers. Post here: blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016… pic.twitter.com/iDkmy6B9sR
The classic principles of animation aren’t just for adding “delight” to interfaces: medium.com/@vlh/what-does… pic.twitter.com/0GtuqglPLN
Object-Oriented JavaScript — A Deep Dive into ES6 Classes sitepoint.com/object-oriente… via @sitepointdotcom
“JS is "objects-only" (OO). Leave the classes to those other languages!” twitter.com/Tevko/status/6…
Here’s @adactio on hamburger icons—not with a reductive “good/bad” post, but a useful framework for evaluating them. adactio.com/journal/10120
Node.js with ChakraCore (node-chakracore-6.0.0-pre2) - installer github.com/Microsoft/node… - this works parallel to your node.js install.
Flexbox Myth Busting jonyablonski.com/2015/flexbox-m… and "when to use flexbox" brolik.com/blog/when-to-u…
Reminder: buy your EmberConf ticket now before they sell out. It's gonna be a good one. buff.ly/1Jbb5rT pic.twitter.com/mcxRVz7qQg
The best demo you’ll see all day: codepen.io/Zeaklous/pen/L… #Whoa
I thought snapchat was “send self-destructing photos to specific friends”, but apparently it’s more about “stories” wsj.com/video/snapchat…
Looking forward to speaking at @smashingconf Oxford in March and in SF in April! Will I see you there? smashingconf.com
It's cold in Ottawa today. I should bundle up. pic.twitter.com/4NkpBjJ1x3
This is the kind of advice I like to read. Also learn the syntax anyway so u can read & understand other ppl’s code. twitter.com/slicknet/statu…
⌨ Dear Github daverupert.com/2016/01/dear-g…
Troubleshooting rendering performance issues youtu.be/2vFrZXWiwIc @csswizardry showing how its done.
Blogography: Visual Designers Are Just as Important as UX Designers bit.ly/ZzTDQK
Installed Flux. justgetflux.com My screen is ever so slowly dimming whilst the sun sets, and now I'm realising my eyes feel better.
The Semantic Web: Is the reality finally catching up with the hype? apilama.com/2016/01/15/the… .. No. < saved you a click.
~@smashingmag Drone photographer captures winter in Lithuania bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictur…
Updating my ‘Three Wise Monkeys’ NDA. What’s your experience of NDAs? Anything I should add? #contractkiller stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/three…
I'm looking SO forward to @ChrisGannon speaking at SVG Summit: environmentsforhumans.com/2016/svg-summi… @e4h pic.twitter.com/lZhwnZIBJc
I’m no closer to making a decision… Music = wins on content Groove = wins on clear UI Spotify = wins on social pic.twitter.com/UcmI0Ggylz
Building Offline Sites with ServiceWorkers and UpUp dev.opera.com/articles/offli… (UpUp is a nice'n'easy SW library)
"JavaScript Code Smells" youtu.be/JVlfj7mQZPo
1st time at a tech event where majority audience (and all entrepreneur panelists) are women. So good. meetup.com/ThirdWaveFashi… #fashiontech
Save the Date: Microsoft Edge Web Summit returns on April 4th in San Francisco blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016…
we’ve all had those days twitter.com/francesc/statu…
Shit Interaction Designers Say bit.ly/REk9sB
Facebook reminds me that it's 1 yr since I sat on the loo lid to cut toenails, it broke & my arse got stuck in seat pic.twitter.com/XiPIcHGh5S
Appalling ad of the day: pic.twitter.com/HwkkpF71Od
Letter to David Bowie presenting him the script that would make him the Goblin King pic.twitter.com/U4AkG6PTVL
Shadows of London. pic.twitter.com/BbABxvE1eT
Amazon Product Reviews Are Terrible, Part #2309 pic.twitter.com/0kraTjXQht