Links from 2014 (497 links)

Hierarchical node.js configuration with files, environment variables, command-line arguments, and atomic object merging

Reads a JSON file and generates a static folder structure that matches the JSON to allow data end points for simple apps without a server

Options.

You might think of it this way: with box-sizing: border-box the padding and border press their way inside the box rather than expand the box. The result is a box the exact width you set it to be and can count on.

Via jamesholloway.

Where have you been all my life.

Via ttscoff.

Playing with Ghost. Fun, but feels like overkill for solo blogging. Back to static for now, then. github.com/TryGhost/

Guide your users through a tour of your app.

Postcard club is for people who like to send and receive postcards.

Via russelldavies.

Dr. Mike is an interweb health hero.

...the definitive listing of.

Via jamesholloway.

Spend money on tools, basically.

git pull has two problems:

* It merges upstream changes by default, when it's really more polite to rebase over them, unless your collaborators enjoy a commit graph that looks like bedhead. * It only updates the branch you're currently on, which means git push will shout at you for being behind on branches you don't particularly care about right now.

Combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.

Via ttscoff.

Sleep, it turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is quite actively playing the part of mental janitor: It’s clearing out all of the junk that has accumulated as a result of your daily thinking.

The Node environment seems to have shifted from "use this for your one-off, high performance, I/O dominated real time service" to "hey, you know Javascript, build all your webapps in node, build your command line tools in node, build everything in node, since it's the lingua franca of the web." This latter trend sucks, and results in things that to me seem absolutely bonkers, like the Vows test framework.

Via monospaced.

A portable tool for managing a single set of dotfiles in an organized fashion

M*EAN (*MySQL, Express, Angular, Node) - A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for javascript web development with a relational database ORM