rtoal

JS First

About This Manifesto

Have you ever argued for or against teaching language X as the first language in a university computer science curriculum? If so, I hope that your arguments:

• were first and foremost about students, considering the question “What do we want students to gain from their experience with a first language?”, not “Is language X better than language Y?” because the latter question requires too much context and isn’t really answerable;
• kept in mind that ultimately we want to train polyglots, so the first language is never the only language; and
• took into account previous work from computing educators, and education theorists and practitioners in general.

mrmrs

How not to scale css

Several years ago I got curious about how css worked at scale. When I first started out, there weren’t nearly as many learning resources as there are now. CSS zen garden was amazing, at the time it showed how much you could change a design without altering the html.

In the beginning, that’s what people sold me as a feature. By writing css, you could make a change one place and have it propagate everywhere. In principle this sounds pretty good. I’m lazy so I like doing things one time. But eleven years later, my experience on both large and small teams is that this is the most terrifying thing about css.

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/493790680397803521

In the past few years a lot of very smart people have been thinking more about CSS and this has lead to some fascinating discussions around how to build ‘scalable’ ui and how that relates to CSS. When I first started to think about scalability I naturally started to read every blog post and watch every tech talk I could get

paulirish

/* bling.js */

window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);

Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
  this.addEventListener(name, fn);
}

NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;

ericelliott

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

othiym23

#!/bin/sh

set -e
set -x

for package in $(npm -g outdated --parseable --depth=0 | cut -d: -f3)
do
    npm -g install "$package"
done

garybernhardt

(Chapters marked with * are already written. This gets reorganized constantly
and 10 or so written chapters that I'm on the fence about aren't listed.)

Programmer Epistemology
  * Dispersed Cost vs. Reduced Cost
  * Verificationist Fallacy
  * Mistake Metastasis
  The Overton Window
  Epicycles All The Way Down
  The Hyperspace Gates Were Just There

gruber

#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/javascript_bookmarklet_builder

use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8);
use open  IO  => ":utf8",		# UTF8 by default
		  ":std";				# Apply to STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR

jrcryer

module.exports = (grunt) ->

  require('time-grunt')(grunt)
  require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach grunt.loadNpmTasks

  grunt.initConfig
    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON 'package.json'
    paths:
      images: "img"
      js: "js"

Mulkave

# update
sudo yum -y update

# install nginx -- the web server to be used with this installation
# for virtual host configuration visit https://gist.github.com/Mulkave/6103129
sudo yum install nginx

# install php and mysql
sudo yum -y install mysql mysql-server php54 php54-cli php54-gd php54-intl php54-mbstring php54-mcrypt php54-mysql php54-pdo php-pear php54-xml php54-xmlrpc

don1138

/* Modern Font Stacks */

/* System */
font-family: system, -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", "Roboto", "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;

/* System (Bootstrap 5.2.0) */
font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";

/* Times New Roman-based serif */
font-family: Cambria, "Hoefler Text", Utopia, "Liberation Serif", "Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular", Times, "Times New Roman", serif;