Surma shows off Houdini, a new spec that introduces worklets where we can alter the fabric of reality and how CSS is rendered. Houdini introduces the ability to add custom CSS properties, layout primitives, transition animations and more, all via a JavaScript API powered by Houdini’s worklets. Such magic!  |
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We just opened up the Call for Speakers to NodeConf Argentina. Travel and accommodation are covered. We’re looking for crazy hacks, hardware, realtime, offline web, and all the awesome stuff you’ve been doing lately! |
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Joshua made an open-source music recommendations app powered by Spotify and React. It’s sort of like the not-inbred brother of music-manager, a CLI utility I’ve published recently that offered random recommendations from a list of 60,000+ artists. The big hit in Panther Audio is that you enter an artist you like and it suggests three similar artists. Super easy to use and super well designed too! |
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Axel points out six interesting ES6 tricks, such as better required function arguments, mixins, templating, and more. |
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Carving out the fast path is not enough. We need to make our applications resilient. |
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In this screencast, Matt walks you through creating a game for the web using the Ember framework. There are plenty of other talks published by the Global Ember Meetup group if you want to learn more about Ember. |  |
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Jake gave a talk at Google I/O last week on Progressive Web Apps, offline-first, and all the good stuff. Highly recommended! |  |
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Jeremy is one of the few bloggers out there who strongly advocate for progressive enhancement, something I firmly believe in as well. In this article, he reflects on the opportunities we can seize to build a web that works for everyone. Let’s build a web that works for everyone. That doesn’t mean everyone has to have the same experience. Let’s accept that there are all sorts of people out there accessing the web with all sorts of browsers on all sorts of devices. |
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Talk videos from NodeConf London are up! These are very fresh, so take advantage of some of the most recent talk videos in the industry! |
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Heiko introduces you to Content-Security-Policy – CSP for short. CSP is a security feature that can greatly improve your app’s security by blocking undesirable content from running on your pages. Beware that CSP is not for the faint of heart, as it can also cripple your app if implemented in a rush, blocking resources your application actually needs in order to run properly! |  |
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David highlights a pretty useful script Sindre wrote to run npm install as a git hook whenever package.json files change. Quite handy when working with feature branches where not all branches may have the same dependencies installed! |
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An introduction to Google’s Firebase technology for backend-less website development. |
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Mediachain is a metadata service that sits on top of a blockchain and helps attribute works to their original authors, by way of ipfs for decentralization. Works can be photographs, videos, or any other media type. Check out the links near the end of their article for more details about the protocol or a concrete example of how it can be applied in the wild. |
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Houdini – Demystifying CSS 
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