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A REST API testing framework built on node.js and Jasmine that makes testing API endpoints easy, fast, and fun.

http-server for node.js is very convenient, and is a lot faster than Python's SimpleHTTPServer.

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I think I'd quite like it if designers started using Sketch.

A JavaScript library that helps to construct difficult regular expressions.

Though many Web teams consistently test their products on mobile browsers, few test on the embedded browsers found within the World's most popular native mobile apps. These experiences not only behave differently but are an increasingly significant part of mobile Web browsing activity.

Arguably, Norway has one of the top five most incredible terrains in the known universe. Now you can create your own 3D-printed genuine gypsum heirloom mantelpiece display replica of your favorite part of this formidable landscape in two easy steps!

I've come to believe that it's time for us to take a stand, and refuse to cooperate with this apparatus of secrecy. We've already seen Lavabit, in an act of great moral courage, throw away ten years of hard work rather than acquiesce to blanket monitoring of its users. But the fact that Ladar Levinson wasn't even able to give the reasons for shutting his project down, that we had to infer them from his silence, demonstrates the problem.

A tool that automates your testing of JavaScript across browsers.

Urbex is not for everyone. Let me put that differently: urbex is hardly for anyone. Participation is high in profile but small in number (perhaps 20,000 globally), and the thrills are niche. Not for urbexers the sturm und drang of mountains or the arid elegance of desert exploration. Their epiphanies are mucky, their metaphysics mephitic. The short-term risks are grim: drowning in sewage, falling from girders, gralloched by razor-wire, skewered on scaffolding. Longer-term dangers include respiratory problems from exposure to dusts and gases. I know, I know: why would you? Who would? It is a hugely strange scene, and – occasional claustrophiliac with an intermittent taste for decay that I am – I find myself rather gripped by it.

“Smart quotes,” the correct quotation marks and apostrophes, are curly or sloped. "Dumb quotes," or straight quotes, are a vestigial constraint from typewriters when using one key for two different marks helped save space on a keyboard. Unfortunately, many improper marks make their way onto websites because of dumb defaults in applications and CMSs. Luckily, using correct quotation marks and apostrophes today is easier than you think.

Ideas on how to survive unpleasant projects as a consultant

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Easy epoch/Unix timestamp converter for computer programmers. Includes epoch explanation and conversion syntax in various programming languages.

Install these choose-your-own-adventure style lessons and learn how to use node.js, npm and other related tools by writing code to solve realistic problems.

How to use Amazon IAM to create a new user for deployments that has restricted access to your account to help tighten up security.

Not just jekyll, mind. Generic, simple S3 instructions.

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We use RequireJS for dependency management, Jasmine for testing, and jQuery. Our framework is light, and is founded on a simple instantiation pattern: modules are marked up using data attributes, anything with a data-require attribute is deemed to be a module. On page load, our app finds these modules in the DOM, ‘requires’ them and their dependencies, instantiates them and starts them.

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