Hey,
it’s pre-christmas time and you already see the lights blinking in the windows. Well, in times where the time is rushing, I want to provide you with the essentials happened in the past week. If you want to do me a favor and show your gratitude for this letter, consider donating via Flattr, Gratipay or Bitcoin.
News
- Following Firefox Nightly, Chrome DevTools now also vizualize the changed part of the DOM when it updates.
- Opera 26 is out including the Beacon API, ES6 Generators, Web Animation Playback Control, and now runs 64-bit on Mac OS X.
- It seems Firefox will finally come to iOS now even though they can’t have their own Geckon running there.
- The jQuery Foundation held its roundup of 2014 and in this article you can read about the plans for jQuery and jQuery UI.
Advent Calendars
- 24ways is always a good choice of articles.
- 8faces has a Type & Lettering Advent Calendar this year.
Concepts & Design
- On mobile screens you probably think placing the menu top left is a good idea. But with increazing screen sizes the behavior is also changing. Learn how to design for thumbs in the era of huge screens.
Tools / Git
- With this you can set up a webhook that converts your code TODOs into GitHub issues. This is so useful.
- Install these git extras to get convenience functions for your CLI and Git.
- Wanna say something to you or another user in an trayballoon on Windows? Here you go.
Web Performance
- Here’s the video by Tim Kadlec about The Space Between and Perceived Performance from beyondtellerrand.
HTML / SVG
- If you’re using 301 Redirects, be sure you know what you’re doing. Because they’re cached forever in users’ browser.
- Bruce Lawson again on the Accessibility of Web Components.
JavaScript
- 101 is a modern JS utility library that can be very handy.
- An interesting article about ES6 modules and the history of module formats
- Jack Franklin on JavaScript Modules the ES6 way.
- The State of JavaScript 2015.
- Something happened and now some of the node.js people are working on a new thing called io.js.
- This little tool helps making sense of sequences by automatically creating a comparison table from a JSON source.
- Do you want to alter the caption of a responsive image when using art directions? This draft of a script is thought to fix this shortcoming of responsive images at the moment. And you can help to improve the script, of course.
- Lots of news to learn when it goes to native JavaScript these days. Because with ES6 coming to the browser of your choice, we’re now able to iterate in new ways. Jake Archibald tells you more about the iteration ways in ES6.
- If your’re interested in static type checking your JavaScript files, you’ll probably do this with Flow. Now you can even run Flow in the CLI thanks to Sindre Sorhus.
Sass / CSS
- Understand CSS Stats and how to make best out of the numbers and improve your CSS file.
Go beyond…
- Establishing Sharing by default as a standard. To try to be more than an individual by contributing to something bigger than ourselves.
- I don’t know when you made your into the web development industry. However, you can read the history of the web in this short format which is great.
- What do you think about an Wikipedia for News? Wouldn’t that be great?
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Thank you and a great weekend!
Anselm