Mapping NYC Transit. All of it.

Anthony Denaro: Looking at The Subway Map the thought hit me: If I can transfer to the bus for free, why isn’t there a map that shows where to connect with buses? Why does the system map only show subways? […] The whole system of buses and subways could fit on one map. It could …

Death to Complexity: Advanced Search at Spokeo

Considering the nature of people search, filtering by parameters other than first and last name is crucial. ‘John Smith’ doesn’t really help you find who you’re looking for, but a 36 year old John Smith in Pasadena, CA, related to a Susan is damn specific, and will inform you quickly if we have the data …

WebViewBridge.Swift

Like JockeyJS, written in Swift, and with support for WKWebView: A bridge for WebView(UIWebView, WKWebView), using JavaScriptCore, handles communications between native(Swift) and js. Example usage (call native function from JS): // XCode override func viewDidLoad() { // … let webView = WKWebView() let bridge = ZHWebViewBridge.bridge(webview) bridge.registerHandler(“Video.Play”) { (args:[AnyObject]) -> (Bool, [AnyObject]?) in self.player.play() return …

bezier-easing – cubic-bezier implementation for your JavaScript animation easings

bezier-easing provides Cubic Bezier Curve easing which generalizes easing functions (ease-in, ease-out, ease-in-out, …any other custom curve) exactly like in CSS Transitions. Pass in the 4 points of the bezier curve of your liking – just like you’d use when defining a CSS Transition Timing Function using cubic-bezier() – and then project x, ranging from …

webpack-dashboard – A CLI dashboard for your webpack dev server

webpack-dashboard is a webpack plugin that changes the noisy CLI output from this … … into that: Now when you run your dev server, you basically work at NASA Awesome stuff! Installation possible via npm: npm install webpack-dashboard –save-dev webpack-dashboard – A CLI dashboard for your webpack dev server →

Chrome “Go Back With Backspace” Extension

With the release of Chrome 52, the backspace button no longer navigates back when pressing it. Highly annoying, because the navigating back with the backspace button is just very, very handy (it only requires one finger/hand!). “Go Back With Backspace” is the official Google released Chrome Extension that restores this behavior (other – non-Google developed …

react-music — Make beats with React!

The past few days Ken Wheeler has been tweeting some sneak peeks of what he’s been up to, after having heard that Akai was discontinuing its standalone hardware MPC drum machine offering: I did what any geek that writes React code all day long would do: I wrote a library so that I can make …

The Apple-Google shift

Elliot-Jay Stocks: Okay, so I’m considering a switch to Android. No big deal. I’m following in the footsteps of many, many, many others. But what I find interesting outside of my own personal decision is that there seems to be a growing discontent with Apple — especially amongst former so-called fanboys/girls — and, at the …

“It’s the future!” — A fictional conversation on web development

A fictional conversation on web development: I’m building a simple web app at the moment — a normal TODO app using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and I’m planning to use jQuery. Is that the way to go? : Oh, no. That’s old school. jQuery is dead — no one uses it anymore. You need to use React now. That’s …