Epic list of skills every man should know, from The Art of Manliness. Covers all sorts of things from outdoor/survival to “being a gentleman”. Some of them are a bit silly, but good overall.

The new Brave browser blocks all the greed and ugliness on the Web that slows you down and invades your privacy. Then we put clean ads back, to fund website owners and Brave users alike. Users can spend their funds to go ad-free on their …

Interesting online plain text editor. Allows storage of “files within files”. Executable and scriptable via JavaScript.

commandcar is a CLI tool that can easily communicate with any API. It simplifies unreadable and complicated curl commands, and has some nice features to make automation of API calls much simpler and bash scripts more streamlined.

A client-side JavaScript SDK for authenticating with OAuth2 (and OAuth1 with a oauth proxy) web services and querying their REST APIs. HelloJS standardizes paths and responses to common APIs like Google Data Services, Facebook Graph and …

A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things

Funny slackbot that forces you to work out while you’re chatting/using Slack.

Pretty extensive Makefile tutorial. We have Gulp and Grunt and whatnot, but Make still holds its own.

A self-hosted, open source version of Slack.

Learn a language by reading whatever you like

Awesome home automation with Raspberry PI and Arduino using Node.js, MongoDB, HTML5 and Websockets.

Tracking the Internet of Things

“A vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.”

We have Sumac all over the place, and we need to eliminate it before it gets completely out of hand. This basically says we’ll spend 3 years poisoning it.

A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript.

Long-lasting, well-rated iBeacons. Should be compatible with Beecon for automating things at home.

Manage, detect and range iBeacons around you. Create multiple regions and define actions that are triggered when you enter or leave them.

Ultra fast, for Modern Software Development Teams that love Continuous Delivery & Simplicity.

Over time, my laziness spurred me to write a set of Git aliases that streamline this flow for me. In this post, I share these aliases and some tips on writing your own. These aliases start off simple, but they get more advanced near the …

keeps tabs on GitHub pull requests across repositories, directly in OS X Notification Center.

Pretty amazing, comprehensive, cross-linked checklist for all the things relevant to UX in a project.

Add serverless video chat and data transfer to your website

Did you know that localStorage fires an event? More specifically, it fires an event whenever an item is added, modified, or removed in another browsing context.

Cloud-based web scraping via dynamically injected JS on the remote URL.

ustomizable date (and time) picker. Opt-in UI, no jQuery!

7 minute workout, plus an advanced version, with voiceovers to walk you through actually doing them.

Some of the Cordova APIs for adding native elements to hybrid web apps.

A pair of scripts that make it easier to manage the development of a WordPress plugin in Github, and then periodically deploy to the WP.org plugin repo (SVN).

Easily reveal elements as they enter the viewport.

Exoskeleton is a faster and leaner Backbone for your HTML5 apps.

Scotch Box is a preconfigured Vagrant Box with a full array of LAMP Stack features to get you up and running with Vagrant in no time.

Swarm is a reactive data sync library and middleware. Swarm synchronizes your app’s model automatically, in real time.

“Welcome to engineering management. It’s fun, it’s exhausting, it’s rewarding — but most importantly it’s new! What worked for you before won’t work now. You’ll have to acquire a new set of skills, and shed some bad habits in the process. …

Nice quick summary of a few of the very common/successful mobile design patterns that can contribute to a well-received app.

Material Design for Bootstrap is a theme for Bootstrap 3 which let you use the new Google Material Design in your favourite front-end framework.

Tips and hacks for camping in the fall (most are suitable for whenever you like though).

a minimal, ui-focused programming language for web designers

Create High-Performance Interactions for the Mobile Web

Good collection/model for breakpoints when doing mobile web development.

HTTP API for controlling Lifx lights. Finally.

CSS boilerplate and pattern for handling off-canvas UI, esp for mobile.

A new code editor – different by behavior

The beautiful, open source front-end framework for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5.

The missing Javascript smart persistence layer. Unified localstorage, cookie and session storage JavaScript API.

Tensō is a REST API facade for node.js, designed to simplify the implementation of APIs. It will handle the serialization & creation of hypermedia links, all you have to do is give it Arrays or Objects.

Vertically adjust a textarea based on user input and control all presentation in CSS. No clone or ghost elements used.

simple gestures for mobile web browsers

Test your wifi speed, but also search hotels based on their recorded wifi speed test results (e.g. find somewhere with fast internet).

Epic collection of links to tools of the trade for folks who work on the web.

Really nice little tutorial on accessing/manipulating the DOM via JavaScript.

Trumbony is a light, translatable and customisable jQuery plugin. Beautiful design, generates semantic code, comes with a powerful API.

Turn your spreadsheets into APIs effortlessly.

boilerplate markup (a blank HTML document template) for HTML5-capable web pages.

Simplest possible examples of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

a utility for generating map overviews using GeoJSON and HTML Canvas.

Vert.x is a lightweight, high performance application platform for the JVM that’s designed for modern mobile, web, and enterprise applications.

The client-side scraping companion

This specification defines the WebFinger protocol, which can be used to discover information about people or other entities on the Internet using standard HTTP methods. WebFinger discovers information for a URI that might not be usable as a …

Nice cheat-sheet for the text version of emoji on platforms which support them.

Boilerplate & Tooling for Multi-Device Development

HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement. http://httpie.org

Small JSON file database for Node.js

A jank-free module to do logic on the onscroll event without performance regressions in a @media-query like conditions.

The Open Source OS for the Internet of Things

randomColor generates attractive colors by default. More specifically, randomColor produces bright colors with a reasonably high saturation. This makes randomColor particularly useful for data visualizations and generative art.

Asynchronous browser storage with multiple back-ends (IndexedDB, WebSQL, localStorage)

Super lightweight script (1kb) to detect via Javascript events like ‘tap’ ‘dbltap’ ‘swipeup’ ‘swipedown’ ‘swipeleft’ ‘swiperight’ on any kind of device.

A javascript library for formatting and manipulating numbers.

JSON Schema tools and doc generation for HTTP APIs

HTTP API design guide extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API

Marker Clustering plugin for Leaflet

Velocity is a jQuery plugin that re-implements $.animate() to produce significantly greater performance (making Velocity also faster than CSS animation libraries) while including new features to improve animation workflow.

Cross-platform desktop application shell

The MacGap project aims to provide HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing Native OSX Apps that run in OSX’s WebView and take advantage of WebKit technologies. The project also exposes a basic JavaScript API for OS …

The Mac App for Homebrew.

nodejs server for sending Apple APNS push notifications

A collection of cool hidden and not so hidden features of Git and Github.

Vis.js is a dynamic, browser based visualization library. The library is designed to be easy to use, to handle large amounts of dynamic data, and to enable manipulation of and interaction with the data.

aka Spotifious — a natural Spotify controller for Alfred

Excellent list of tools which are recommended to students studying Javascript.

Full Featured HTML Framework For Building iOS7 Apps

iOS and Android prototypes made from your existing screen designs.

A ranty, opinionated series of easily digestible tidbits

Modern IRC client built with web technologies and node.js for OSX, Linux, and eventually Windows.

Remote TextMate/SublimeText 2 implemented as shell script

Objectives and Key Results.

Build mobile apps with simple HTML, CSS, and JS components.

Pebble controller for LIFX bulbs. UAlberta CompE Club Hackathon 2014 project.

An open source javascript image cropping plug-in

Hilarious mini-web series about a weed dealer in NYC and the random, neurotic people he deals to.

Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space.

My Mind is a web application for creating and managing Mind maps. It is free to use and you can fork its source code.

Spark gives you the tools to connect everyday electronics to the internet over Wi-Fi.

Spawn a Node.js process and restart it if it crashes.

Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach

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