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Weekend Reading — Comic Papyrus
trick mat Spacetime curvature placemats:
Design Objective
There is No Fold "The fold" on the Web, not a real thing. In fact, if the web has taught users anything, it's to "scroll before page fully loads".
Everybody Scrolls Need more data points? "Almost all participants scrolled, no matter what."
The entire screen of one game You can't win this game. It exists only to destroy your mind.
Comic Papyrus A typeface guaranteed to drive designers insane.
Tools of the Trade
Hawkee Think Medium but geared towards developers: beautiful articles that can include source code and running demos.
The offline cookbook Everything you need to know about writing JavaScript apps that run offline.
Eventually Consistent Distributed Systems with Node.js for Finance This talk will teach you what Event Sourcing is, and how you can use it to build better distributed applications.
FiltrES.js ElasticSearch query engine that can accept arbitrary search expressions from users (e.g. transactions <= 5 and profit > 20.5) and sanitize them before sending to ES.
lazybird Lazy promises using Bluebird (by yours truely).
Lingua Scripta
Iterators gonna iterate The skinny on ES6 iterators.
ES7 - The Evolution of JavaScript Fantastic talk about ES7 and where it picks up after ES6, introducing async/await and yield async, a symmetric pull/push API that brings stream/reactive programming into the language.
@NodeSummit If #nodejs would have existed in 1995
Lines of Code
An Effective Code Review Process Go beyond code review of pull requests, take the time to review code that's already in production. It's an investment that will pay dividends, and I absolutely +1 this practice.
Why Most Unit Testing is Waste I echo the sentiment: write tests at the highest level possible, only use unit tests for what you can't easily test at integration or functional level. Other good advise from this article include:
- Design a test with more care than you design the code.
- Turn most unit tests into assertions.
- Throw away tests that haven’t failed in a year.
- Testing can’t replace good development: a high
Why did it take 2 weeks to write 200 lines of code? Because I had to write 1000 lines of code to learn which 800 to throw away.
bashstyle "Bash is like the JavaScript of systems programming" This is a great style guide for writing better Bash scripts.
Desirable developer skills:
- Ability to ignore new tools and technologies
- Taste for simplicity
- Good code deletion skills
- Humility
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None of the Above
Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth "Don’t give him a baby for a while."
Mother Jones’ nonprofit fix for serious journalism Great journalism can exist in the age of the Internet, and it doesn't require pop-up ads or silly paywalls.
Email transparency at Khan Academy -blackhole@ addresses are an interesting way to keeping everyone in the loop without flooding their inbox.