The Facebook interface is filled with numbers. These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity, enumerating friends, likes, comments, and more. Facebook Demetricator is a web browser addon that hides these metrics. No longer is the focus on how many friends you have or on how much they like your status, …
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Oridomi — Fold up the DOM like paper
Viewport Meta Tag For Non-Responsive Design
Even if your site is non-responsive, you’ll still want to use the viewport meta tag in certain cases. Don’t set it to scaling and such, but to a fixed width like so: <meta name="viewport" content="width=1024"> I myself needed this one for the EV-Point website where not all content was shown correctly before adding a fixed …
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Apple’s Samsung Apology Statement
As court-ordered, the apology message is on the apple.co.uk homepage, yet Apple’s pulling some JavaScript magic to keep it below the fold: var HeroResize=AC.Class({initialize:function(b){this._height=null;this._hero=$(b); AC.Object.synthesize(this);this.__boundResizeHero=this.resizeHero.bindAsEventListener(this); if(typeof window.ontouchstart===”undefined”){this.resizeHero();Event.observe(window,”resize”,this.__boundResizeHero) }},setHeight:function(b){this._height=(b
Why Linux Sucks
512 Paths to the White House
Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures”
Twapp — Cross-post from App.net to Twitter
∞.js
∞ is a UITableView for the web: it speeds up scrolling through long lists and keeps your infinite feeds smooth and stable for your users. It is small, battle-tested, and highly performant. Just compare the demos without ∞.js and with ∞.js, and be amazed UPDATE 2016 Want to use Infinity in production? I’d recommend using …
Learnable Programming — Designing a programming system for understanding programs
Bret Victor — of the mind-boggling Inventing on Principle fame — is at it again Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and Processing languages, and features a “live coding” environment, where the program’s output updates as the programmer types. Because …
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