Links from 2015 (401 links)

It’s all too easy to force push to the wrong branch, overwriting someone else’s changes with your own. Sometimes it results in losing work (unless you know how…

Apr 4th 2015 THE history of economics has been, among other things, a story of learning to care less about land. The physiocrats of 18th-century France saw it…

After 5 years, the time has come. This is my last week as Etsy’s CTO. Five years ago I joined a tiny site, with a struggling software product. I wasn’t sure how…

Toddlers and preschoolers can watch online kids movies safely and easily at the kids movie website ToddlerTube.co.uk Every kids film has been verified as…

This post is part of a sponsorship with VTech. I remember those last days before my second child was born. Besides worrying about the obvious labor pains,…

Key bits of the world’s infrastructure still run on a bunch of flimsy shell scripts that seem like they’d break all the time but don’t. If a computer program…

Sam Lambert joined GitHub in 2013 as the company’s first database administrator, and is now the company’s director of technology. In this interview, he…

AWS operations by cli should be simpler

The chef and cookbook author April Bloomfield invites T into her kitchen. Roast chestnuts until fragrant and beginning to split. Dissolve sugar in water over…

Always forget, for some reason.

Configurable React Components with great UX

Unsplash It unsplash Basic Usage Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder. https://unsplash.it/200/300 To get a…

As many of us move away from designing pages toward designing systems, one concept keeps cropping up: modularity. We often hear about the benefits of a modular…

this repo is no longer maintained - please see https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter-stylelint

SUIT CSS config for Stylelint

The secret key combination to drag a pane back to a window or to the tab bar is: command + shift + option, while dragging the pane body (not its header!).

Via infovore.

According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and senior lecturer at MIT, your “terrible twos” and those turbulent teen years are when the brain’s wiring is most malleable. As a result, traumatic experiences that occur during these time periods can alter brain activity and ultimately change gene expressions—sometimes for good.

In 2003, the CSS Zen Garden went live, and it spearheaded a revolution. At the time, many web designers were still using tables for layouts, and the battle for…

COMPUTING has always been a youngster’s game. The founders of Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft were in their teens or 20s when they started the businesses…

Transistor is a sci-fi themed action RPG that invites you to wield an extraordinary weapon of unknown origin as you fight through a stunning futuristic city.…

Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut is Harebrained Schemes’ biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now…

In 1992, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. In my defense, I had just graduated from college, this was pre-Internet, and I lived in Boulder,…

I recently offered to talk at the local primary school, about my job (or at least part of my job). I expected to be speaking to the older kids, and be able to…

For such a young, supposedly-innovative industry, I’m often amazed at what people choose to treat as immovable, unchangeable, carved-in-stone issues. Bloated, invasive ad tracking isn’t a law of nature. It’s a choice. We can choose to change.

npm has a great subset of functionality decidated to running tasks to facilitate in a packages lifecycle - in other words, it is a great tool for build scripts.

There are some fancy tools for doing build automation on javascript projects that I've never felt the appeal of because the lesser-known npm run command has…

Summary: Even as more sites mimic swiping gestures and incorporate horizontal scrolling in desktop designs, users remain reluctant to move sideways through content.

The relevant difference there is the "implied minimum size of flex items", a new feature in the flexbox spec. (or rather, a feature that was removed and re-introduced) [...] set `min-height:0` on specific elements.

TL;DR: Did you know that The Verge delivers you to around 20 companies for advertising & tracking purposes? I didn't. That might foul up your web experience a little bit. Maybe we should try something different.

Idle Words > Talks > Web Design: The First 100 Years This is the expanded version of a talk I gave on September 9, 2014, at the HOW Interactive Design…

When the robin was voted the UK’s national bird last month, we chose to celebrate half of a broken relationship. The robin evolved to make use of wild boar,…