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GitHub Archive

Github Archive - queryable Github “events” going back to 2011 Looks super useful. Perhaps interesting to #altmetrics

March 2015
User Onboarding | A frequently-updated compendium of web app first-run experiences

Does what it says on the tin - screenshots of various websites/apps and their onboarding/initial start up procress

March 2015
Untitled (http://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/color_value/)

One of my fave #CSS snippets: a { color: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid currentColor; } —about currentColor:

February 2015
Lunar Swimming

“If we ever build a Moon base, I think we should absolutely build a big swimming pool there”

January 2015
javascript - html5 localStorage error with Safari: "QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota." - Stack Overflow

TIL iOS Safari in Private Browsing mode throws an exception when you try to put something in localStorage: https://t.co/rYv9rbsBip

December 2014
Small pieces, loosely joined: http://t.co/WRcK3a81bq Interesting, practical stuff from @CameronNeylon

Small pieces, loosely joined: http://t.co/WRcK3a81bq Interesting, practical stuff from @CameronNeylon

November 2014
The Extraordinary Growing Impact Of The History Of Science – The Physics arXiv Blog – Medium

The long tail of science: Citations to 10-year old or older articles have grown 28% since 1990 #altmetrics

November 2014
protocols.io - Life Sciences Protocol Repository

This is neat: Open documentation of scientific protocols

November 2014
Laser Umbrella

Possibly one of my favourite What Ifs ever: https://t.co/9Kh1Wg5p6O

November 2014
Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server - Airbnb Engineering

AirBnB blog post outlining their Rendr framework, which uses isomorphic JS to serve Backbone on the server (in Node) or from the client (regular Backbone)

November 2014
Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls · An A List Apart Article

I’m by no means a CSS expert, but this is fricking smart:

October 2014
JS Bin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging

Randomly stumbled on an really neat checkbox technique: http://t.co/mxF9lU7GBA

October 2014
Eloquent JavaScript

Free Javascript ebook (print also available). Looks pretty good

July 2014
GitHub - systemjs/systemjs: Universal dynamic module loader

Interesting: EMD, CommonJS and ES6 compatible module loader

July 2014