This release marks months of hard work for the young, scrappy, and hungry CLI team, and includes some changes we’ve been hoping to do for literally years. npm@5 takes npm a pretty big step forward, significantly improving its performance in almost all common situations, fixing a bunch of old errors due to the architecture, and …
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Learning Music with Ableton
Nice work by the Ableton folks. A website to experiment with beats, melody, harmony, basslines, and song structure: In these lessons, you’ll learn the basics of music making. No prior experience or equipment is required; you’ll do everything right here in your browser. Right here in your browser™ Learning Music with Ableton →
Scaling your Redux App with ducks
It’s one of these things I too keep struggling with from time to time: do you organize your project files per type/functionality, or per feature? Alex Moldovan from FortechRomania: Our approach starts from the need to isolate the React code into a single folder — called views — and the redux code into a separate folder — called redux. Inside the …
Nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.
Max Stoiber, on determining if you’re qualified or not for a specific (frontend) job listing: If you’ve built a side project with React.js and know your way around JavaScript in general, you’re at least as qualified as 90% of all other devs out there. I’ll tell you a secret: Nobody knows what the fuck they’re …
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Use a mouse on iOS with PointerKit
Great work by Louis D’hauwe: PointerKit is a proof of concept framework to use a pointing device on iOS. This is done via a multipeer connection between a Mac and an iOS device. The pointer movement is captured by the Mac app, after which it’s send to the receiving iOS device (over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi). …
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Design Better Data Tables
Good data tables allow users to scan, analyze, compare, filter, sort, and manipulate information to derive insights and commit actions. This article presents a list of design structures, interaction patterns, and techniques to help you design better data tables. Good overview! Design Better Data Tables →
Craft Prototyping
If you’re using Sketch to design and InVision for prototyping (something we do at Small Town Heroes), then this plugin is solid gold, as it combines both: With Craft Prototype, you’ll experience an unparalleled level of continuity between Sketch and InVision. By bringing your design and prototyping process together, work faster, collaborate more seamlessly, and …
Split emoji text effect with CSS
Thanks to some absolute positioning, hue-rotation, and even some clipping you can create nice split emoji: I especially like the experiments near the lower part of the demo, where one emoji is used as a modifier for the other (e.g. the 🎩 is placed on top of 😁, yielding a new emoji). They remind me …
JavaScript Array#map(), reduce(), and filter()
In The Trouble With Loops I found these nice and simple examples covering Array#map(), Array#reduce(), and Array#filter(). const dollars = [32, 45, 50]; // map(): When you want to translate values in an array into another set of values. const euros = dollars.map(eachAmount => eachAmount * .93); // reduce(): When you want a total based …
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