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The Application Cache is no longer a Douchebag
A new command for the Firefox Command Line (part of the Developer Tools) named appcache to manipulate/inspect the appcache. As someone commented on the original post: Somebody has recently pointed out that the appcache is still a douchebag but at least Firefox now has a way to tell us why. The Application Cache is no …
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Ghostlab — Synchronized testing for web and mobile.
Ghostlab synchronizes scrolls, clicks, reloads and form input across all connected clients. This means what you’re testing is not the simple page load, but the full user experience. The concept behind it is dead simple actually: start a webserver serving the project and inject some .js which keeps all connected browsers in sync using websockets. …
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The McDonald’s Theory of Bad Ideas
I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic! Remember: There are no bad ideas while brainstorming! McDonald’s Theory …
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 …
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 …