TIL: Visit https://github.com/username.keys to get any Github user his/her SSH Public Keys (e.g. https://github.com/bramus.keys). In addition, this handy one-liner comes to mind: curl -L https://github.com/username.keys >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (via)
Software Development
Reqres – Test your front-end against a real API
Reqres simulates real application scenarios. If you want to test a user authentication system, Reqres will respond to a successful login/register request with a token for you to identify a sample user, or with a 403 forbidden response to an unsuccessful login/registration attempt. Great to see an initiative like this. Nearly three years ago I …
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Heisenberg Snowflakes
MetricsGraphics.js
MetricsGraphics.js is a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data. It provides a simple way to produce common types of graphics in a principled, consistent and responsive way. The library currently supports line charts, scatterplots and histograms as well as features like rug plots and basic …
Marking HTTP As Non-Secure
My name is Bramus and I approve this message: We, the Chrome Security Team, propose that user agents (UAs) gradually change their UX to display non-secure origins as affirmatively non-secure. We intend to devise and begin deploying a transition plan for Chrome in 2015. The goal of this proposal is to more clearly display to …
Ionic Ions
You Don’t Need jQuery!
A series of posts in line with the aforementioned You might not need jQuery, From jQuery to Javascript, a reference, and I know jQuery, now what?. Essentially nothing new, yet linking to because it has all handy snippets collected in one place. One thing I do find missing from it is Element#classList. You Don’t Need …
Flexbox adventures
Up until reading Flexbox Adventures I hadn’t really given much thought to how flexbox grow exactly works. If you do want to know: Available space = (Container size – Flex-basis siblings total). Flex Item size = Basis + ((Available space / Total Grow nums) * Individual grow num). A recommended read. Flexbox adventures → When …
Il Capo
Italian artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani captures the otherworldly landscape of a marble quarry in the Apuan Alps, Northwest Italy, as Il Capo (The Chief) guides his men through the extraction process. That shot starting at 2:00 is fascinating. It’s like watching a puppeteer manipulate his puppets.