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 2014Mozilla library wrapping the 3 browser storage functions - looks neat:
February 2014Can't believe it's taken me this long to find node-inspector: https://t.co/oN8u9wXHvr
February 2014Does what it says on the tin - a guide to choosing an open source license
December 2013Neat little script for generating circular (pie chart style) graphs in SVG
December 2013Terms 1 and 2 of Code Club - consists of lesson notes in markdown and Scratch project files
October 2013Neat idea to get git repos a DOI: https://t.co/kpI1D1NPKL Tag for release, imported onto figshare
October 2013Short but sweet intro to Three.js, walking through the initial set up code to create a static WebGL logo that you can move around. Would like some points on where to from here though...
September 2013Tutorial on creating a very simple 2D JS/Canvas game using the really neat Crafty library. Walks through from initial set up to completion of a simple little game
September 2013Data from Jason Priem & Heather Piwowar's PLoS study of altmetrics. Available under CC Zero licence.
September 2013Handy looking open source JS library for working with OpenStreetMaps
September 2013Bunch of short snippets for Chrome's dev tools. Stuff like showing all colours used on the current page
June 2013Really handy introduction to setting up Nginx to get a basic web server running.
June 2013Github repo for Z - command line tool for jumping to file locations without setting preset directories. Pretty much magical.
March 2013Does what it says on the tin - a checklist of stuff to make your site as accessible as possible
March 2013Some useful JS functions for calculating distance between two points on the Earth, given their latitude/longitude
March 2013Neat CSS snippet for turning HTML checkboxes into iOS style switches
March 2013Only XKCD could link to 4chan, the NASA compressive heating calculator and Cooking for Geeks in the same post: http://t.co/Y8QluxDg
January 2013