Links from 2014 (497 links)

Lots of interesting here.

Mono no aware (物の哀れ?), literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō?), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

Including "Disable “how to stage/unstage/add” hints given by git status"

Great new series from Ryan Irelan on JavaScript task runners (Grunt and Gulp). 10 videos, 90 minutes of information.

Via ttscoff.

[this is good]

Find newer versions of Node.js dependencies than what your package.json allows

Hunting for reliable budget headphones again

Design tips on how to get started on Sketch and migrate your icons, patterns and shapes from Photoshop.

Remembering how much I dislike Photoshop. Now even more with SVG. Seriously? creativedroplets.com/generate-svg-w…

This is really good.

Fabric successor.

A Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.

Everything that competes for your time, in one place Your events, to-dos and good habits all appear on your daily calendar.

With babies. Not on babies. Kind of.

Even if we don’t remember early events, they leave an imprint on the way we understand and feel about ourselves, other people, and the greater world, for better or worse. We have elaborate concepts about birds, dogs, lakes and mountains, for example, even if we can’t recall the experiences that created those concepts. ‘You can’t remember going ice-skating with Uncle Henry, but you understand that skating and visiting relatives are fun,’ Bauer explained. ‘You have a feeling for how nice people are, how reliable they are. You might never be able to pinpoint how you learnt that, but it’s just something you know.’

We use nvm to manage different node versions. We read the node version you set in your package.json and install the appropriate one. Default Version The default…

The longer I look at boilerplates, build tools, frameworks and ways to make my life as a developer easier, the more I long for the basics.

Half agree. Choose wisely.