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"Go the Fuck Home" ⇝

Great Ignite talk.

Working Draft Revision 58 ⇝

The latest Working Draft is up. It is a German news podcast for front-end development in which me and my friends talk about the latest hotness in front-end development. Check it ouf if you speak the language. And if not, you might find the links interesting. We are currently kicking around ideas about an English edition of the podcast. We’ll see what happens.

Stratus 2 is an awesome little @soundcloud project by @leemartin. ⇝

You can also see some short screencasts of it here.

Hacker News for Europe ⇝

This website was created out of a startups mailing list from London so it is supported by a community. I’m interested to see how it develops.

Why CoffeeScript Is The Shit by @sstephenson of @37signals ⇝

Sam explains very well why CoffeeScript is awesome. I want to use it now.

Scaling Your JavaScript Applications - a talk by @addy_osmani (video) ⇝

In this talk, I present an effective set of design patterns for small, medium and large-scale JavaScript applications. You’ll learn how to separate concerns, keep your application logic decoupled, build modules that can exist on their own or be dropped into other projects and scale your applications to minimize any breakage in the user experience.

A really good talk on how to scale your Javascript application. A lot of the work that Addy has done in writing is worked into this talk.

* { box-sizing: border-box } FTW by @paul_irish ⇝

This gives you the box model you want. Applies it to all elements. Turns out many browsers already use border-box for a lot of form elements (which is why inputs and textareas look diff at width:100%;) But applying this to all elements is safe and wise.

This is a great way to fix the box-model going forward. Man, I too hate that padding adds width!

Share.js ⇝

Here’s etherpad in 4 lines.

Boom.

Foundation — Episode 16 w/ Kevin Systrom founder of @instagram ⇝

After interning at Odeo and working at Google, Kevin Systrom founded Instagram, the popular photo sharing app for the iPhone.

Another one of Kevin Rose’s great Foundation interviews. I really enjoy the production value of the show as well as the stories of the guests.

Backbone.js 0.9 ⇝

Backbone’s 0.9 series should be considered as a release candidate for an upcoming 1.0.

Codecademy Becomes A Platform ⇝

There’s no approval process involved in publishing a lesson — you write it, and Codecademy will give you a link that you can distribute as you wish. However, there will be a screening process that’ll determine which lessons Codecademy will feature on the site. In other words, users won’t be presented with lessons that aren’t any good, but if you want to create a lesson that’s applicable to a class you’re teaching, or to explain an internal company tool to coworkers, you can use Codecademy’s platform to do it.

I like this.

Node.js creator Ryan Dahl steps away from Node’s day-to-day ⇝

The video of @holman's talk How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub. #awesome ⇝

Our process is the anti-process: what’s the minimum overhead we can put up with to keep our code quality high, all while building features as quickly as possible? It’s not just features, either: faster development means happier developers.

I am in awe of how they work. In. Awe.

IcedCoffeeScript ⇝

IcedCoffeeScript (ICS) adds two new keywords: await and defer. These additions simply and powerfully streamline asynchronous control flow, both on the server and on the browser. Say goodbye to callback pyramids; say adios to massive code rewrites when synchronization requirements change slightly.

A drastic simplification of handling asynchronous code. Maybe yet the most compelling reason to switch to Coffeescript.

The Dabblet Chrome App by @drublic ⇝

Nice work, @drublic.