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Useful tool for determining the install size of npm dependencies

Nice san serif font

Interesting definition of an architect role at Khan Academy. tl;dr: "an architect acts as a sort of product manager for the system in which software is built. This “system” consists of the coding standards, tools, platforms, and even processes used by the engineers on the team to build features for their users. Architects look for ways in which the system can better serve the engineers."

Buffer's take on a Career ladder (explicitly not a ladder). Uses a "sphere of influence idea" to gauge level, instead of a checklist of skiils

Quick & helpful guide for installing npm without sudo

Very useful tool to preview/generate/edit the <meta> tags used by Twitter/Facebook/etc to show page previews

Calendar showing a bunch of exhibitions at London museums/galleries. Bit slow to load, but nice design

Tool from Chrome dev team to compress images - png, jpg, svg

Super useful tool to convert a raw SVG (say from Sketch) and convert it to JSX, and also running it through SVGO to optimise it.

Bruce Lawson post nominally about custom HTML elements bit with an interesting sidebar about the <data> element which is designed to wrap microdata/microformats to make it machine readable. There's also an interesting JS Bin linked showing an implementation of a colour swatch element.

Really interesting pattern/JS snippet to defer calculation of an expensive task with `requestIdleCallback`, *except* if that task is "urgent" (i.e. required synchronously)

Good reference article on various timeout functions in JS (setTimeout, requestAnimationFrame, requestIdleCallback)

Some neat colour functions in JS to darken/lighten/blend colours

Meet the incredible volunteer team behind the viral app - an amazing app that shows EU fund…

Really nice and simple markup/styling of FAQ style details (click a headline to show details)

Some neat hacks with pointer-events in CSS

Nice & simple CSS gradient creator

Good documentation of "slots" pattern in React - basically just passing JSX as a prop. Also points out good way around prop drilling problem

Good short write up on writing proposals

Ah I needed this so badly: Simple resource from @rem which tells you whether an array metho…