After a recreational pause we are back with lots of thingys that gathered over the summer.

JavaScript

• justindeguzman/locstor JavaScript helper library for HTML5 localStorage
• Tessel Tessel is an Internet-connected microcontroller for software developers.

CSS

• Absolute Centering - CodePen an alternative approach
• codrops/CreativeLinkEffects An inspirational collection of experimental link effects mostly using transitions on pseudo-elements.
• HugoGiraudel/Sass-snippets A couple of Sass tricks

HTML5

• Alpha transparency in Chrome video - HTML5Rocks Updates nice work

Web Development

• Speed Up Your Web Development Workflow with Grunt In a series of tutorials, I’m going to help you get started with Grunt, an open source JavaScript task runner that will automate some of your web development tasks.
• Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers – CSS Wizardry – CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts It’s hard, if not impossible, to deny that performance is by far one of the most critical aspects of any decent web project, be it a small portfolio site, a mobile-first web app, right through to a full-scale ecommerce project.
• component/infinity infinite scrolling with loading and unloading.
• kenkeiter/skeuocard Skeuocard progressively enhances credit card inputs to provide a skeuomorphic interface.
• Angular Hovercard Demo a small directive for a nice hover effect
• A Guide To Designing Touch Keyboards (With Cheat Sheet) | Smashing UX Design Users interact directly with touch interfaces, which narrows the gap between human act and software response.
• Bower 1.0.0 completely rewritten
• “Grunt” your way to frontend performance optimization | Be better and faster a nice compilation
• Multi-Level Push Menu | Codrops An experimental push menu with multi-level functionality that allows endless nesting of navigation elements.
• lucb1e/cookielesscookies Demo of tracking using etags instead of cookies (or localstorage or anything else)
• operasoftware/ucss Find unused and duplicate CSS
• tsenart/vegeta HTTP load testing tool and library
• Web Performance Crash Course - Fluent 2013 - YouTube From the ground up introduction to the field of web performance optimization: network bottlenecks, the document parsing and evaluation pipeline, visual layout, javascript, and more. We’ll investigate each in order and then pull it all together through case studies and hands-on examples.
• VictorBjelkholm/ngProgress Angular provider for slim loading bar at the top of the page ( inspired by https://github.com/rstacruz/nprogress )
• Niklas von Hertzen - Click heatmaps with Google Analytics with demo

Python

• CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers aka “Bayesian Methods for Hackers”: An introduction to Bayesian methods probabilistic programming with a computation/understanding-first, mathematics-second point of view. All in pure Python

Node.js

• Bone.io - Realtime HTML5 Framework Bone.io is a lightweight framework for building high performance Realtime Single Page HTML5 Apps
• substack/webworkify launch a web worker that can require() in the browser with browserify
• substack/level-assoc relational foreign key associations (hasMany, belongsTo) for leveldb

Scala

• davidpeklak/smt simple database migrations tool. Example @ https://github.com/davidpeklak/smt-usage

Clojure

• ztellman/byte-transforms methods for hashing, compressing, and encoding bytes
• lynaghk/jetty7-websockets-async Clojure core.async interface to Jetty7’s websockets.

Programming

• samsquire/ideas a record of ideas
• The future of programming - O’Reilly Radar Unraveling what programming will need for the next 10 years.

Editors

• Sublime Packages A searchable index of Sublime Text packages hosted on Github
• Vim 7.4 released With thouthands of patches

Security

• Introducing Minion | Mozilla Security Blog Minion is a platform developed by the Security Automation team at Mozilla to enable integration and adoption of automated security testing that has been under development for the past year.

Watching

• Bret Victor - The Future of Programming on Vimeo presented at dropbox conf

Reading

• Sneak Peek: HuffPost Brings Real Time Collaboration to the Newsroom | John Pavley nice “behind the scenes” of the new upcoming huffington post editor tools

Miscellaneous

• SSH Escape Sequences (aka Kill Dead SSH Sessions) — The Lone Sysadmin what can you do with dead ssh sessions?

Fun

• Regex Crossword A crossword with regexes

Raspberry Pi

• Wearables: Raspberry Pi Glass Domestic Hacks has made a 3d-printed, steampunk inspired, fabulous, wearable Pi.

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