Responsive Inspector is a simple Google Chrome extension that allows viewing media queries of visited websites. It is very useful when developing responsive web layouts as it can visually show what resolutions are defined in css stylesheets. Responsive Inspector →
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Indie Game Devs vs. Piracy
When we released our very first game, Game Dev Tycoon yesterday, we did something unusual and as far as I know unique. We released a cracked version of the game ourselves, minutes after opening our Store. The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail … as players spend a …
Grand Theft Auto V: Michael. Franklin. Trevor.
Budweiser: The Buddy Cup
Microsoft IllumiRoom
It’s not a web app. It’s an app you install from the web.
The people over at forecast.io on how often they receive mails from people looking for their app in the App Store where it is not to be found:/p> You don’t get Forecast from the App Store: just go to http://forecast.io/ on your phone, and you’ll be given instructions on how to download it. It’s 2013, …
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I know jQuery. Now what?
Remy Sharp on his stance to not include jQuery by default anymore: The point is that today we have features natively available, and I’m trying to consider my audience before dropping in jQuery by default Yet again one of the reasons why I teach my students bare/vanilla JS next to learning them to work with …
One Less JPG
Update 2017: By now it’s clear that an equal amount of JS-bytes and JPG-bytes are not the same. The JS still needs to be evaluated and executed, which also comes as a cost. People often build beautiful sites with multiple easy-to-use JavaScript libraries. Then, when it comes to addressing frontend performance, suddenly those libraries are …