Bookmarks

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
danah boyd | apophenia » What does the Facebook experiment teach us?

danah boyd on the Facebook emotional research study: Excellent post

July 2014
The ServiceWorker: The network layer is yours to own - YouTube

Jake Archibald explains ServiceWorkers. ServiceWorkers is a new spec designed to help manage offline and cache resources on the web. Useful for creating offline web apps which hijack requests to check if the user is online or if content already exists in a cache.

June 2014
Swiss Timber Bridges

An archive of Swiss wooden bridges. Check the ones listed for the Berner Oberland canton - specifically this one: http://www.swiss-timber-bridges.ch/detail/631 (walked over coming down into Adelboden)

June 2014
MOUTH SOUNDS

This afternoon brought to you by Mouth Sounds: http://t.co/bu4wcUYAqG

May 2014
HDEV

Sometimes procrastination pays off - live stream from 4 cameras on the ISS, 24 hr a day:

May 2014
Space Colony Artwork 1970s

Woah. Just found a neat little archive of NASA art from the 70s imagining at massive space settlement structures: http://t.co/LW7TZPKixq

May 2014
Hemingway

Neat web app that will highlight phrases in passages of text, marking them on how difficult they are to read or how "good" they are. Totally free, no sign up, looks very useful

March 2014
node-inspector/node-inspector · GitHub

Can't believe it's taken me this long to find node-inspector: https://t.co/oN8u9wXHvr

February 2014
pgte/nock - GitHub

HTTP mocking for node

January 2014
Choose A License.com

Does what it says on the tin - a guide to choosing an open source license

December 2013
lugolabs/circles · GitHub

Neat little script for generating circular (pie chart style) graphs in SVG

December 2013
CodeClub/scratch-curriculum

Terms 1 and 2 of Code Club - consists of lesson notes in markdown and Scratch project files

October 2013