An introduction to some of the new JavaScript features in ES6 (now called ES2015), with code examples comparing common ES5 patterns to the new ES6 equivalents.
Getting started with ECMAScript 6
August 10th, 2015Free Stock Photos – Search 24 Sites With Stock Up
August 7th, 2015Stock Up aggregates several free stock photography sites into one search engine.
LoopBack: A Powerful Node API Framework | Toptal
July 31st, 2015A walkthrough tutorial for creating a REST API service using the LoopBack framework.
LoopBack
July 31st, 2015LoopBack is a framework for building REST APIs. From StrongLoop, the folks that brought us the express framework.
ios – how to get Distance of Object from iPhone camera using image Exif meta data? – Stack Overflow
July 27th, 2015With a few facts about your camera’s sensor, if you know the size of an object in your photo, you can calculate how far it was from the camera when the photo was taken.
ios – how to get Distance of Object from iPhone camera using image Exif meta data? – Stack Overflow
React.js Introduction For People Who Know Just Enough jQuery To Get By · React for Designers
July 9th, 2015A good beginner ReactJS tutorial for entry-level programmers who aren’t already experts with JavaScript.
React.js Introduction For People Who Know Just Enough jQuery To Get By · React for Designers
Performance Calendar » React’s diff algorithm
July 7th, 2015An overview of how ReactJS uses its virtual DOM, diffing, and event delegation to achieve its performance.
CSS Image Replacement Museum
July 6th, 2015A historical retrospective of various CSS text/image replacement techniques, with notes about the pros and cons of each.
most.js: Monadic Reactive Streams
June 22nd, 2015Yet another library bringing functional programming concepts to JavaScript. The most.js library lets you handle events like a stream, allows you to compose streams, etc.
A Rant
July 25th, 2015Once upon a time, before the Facebooks and Twitters and Reddits and MySpaces, there was Usenet. And on Usenet, flaming and trolling was an art form. It wasn’t just a bunch of angry, shocking, monkeys on keyboards. Trolls were subtle. Flames were eloquent and surgically precise.
Then in the early 90s, they opened the internet up to the general public, and it became Amateur Hour. Newcomers, with no knowledge of the existing culture, nor the patience to observe and absorb it, saw these writings and mistook them for Righteous Anger. And they got it into their heads that the Way Of The Net was to spout off whatever idiotic thought that crossed your mind, because that person will never be able to get back at me and Free Speech, Murica!
Tags: comments, entitlement, flames, idiots, Internet, trolls, usenet
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