An experimental Servo browser built in HTML. An astoundingly inspirational step forward by Mozilla.
In case you missed it a couple weeks ago – in our first weekly newsletter issue – you should definitely watch the GPU rendering in Servo with WebRender presentation they gave at a meetup last month.
A first version of their Servo browser is meant to be officially released in June. |  |
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In his latest book he’ll teach you all about writing declarative, fast, and reusable code to create beautiful data visualization components using d3.
There are several different purchasing options, you may even get 2 hours of consulting face time with Swizec himself! |  |
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Peter shares his point of view on the state of advertising on the web. His argument boils down to an interesting point regarding “free content entitlement”, or the fact that humans expect things to be free online. He goes on to point out how this is increasingly becoming a problem and takes this further into a level-headed and thought-provoking piece.
Well worth a read. |
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Addy walks you through so many things related to performance and the offline web that he can’t even fit all of them in the title for his article.
He covers all things ServiceWorker and Progressive Web Apps, and then some more goodies about web performance!
A must read, not unlike most stuff Addy publishes.  |  |
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How do you balance responsive web design without slowing down the experience for your mobile users? By following a thoughtful mobile performance strategy.
Danny walks us through a series of best practices such as defining a performance budget, peer reviews, performance optimizations, and more.
A must read! |  |
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Calvin has a different take on “JavaScript fatigue”, and he describes how it’s deeply rooted in how the language has evolved over the years.
An engaging read about the evolution of ECMAScript, too. |  |
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Phil shares lots of interesting stories about the job interview process, explaining what works and what doesn’t when it comes to interviewing candidates for engineering roles.
Worth a read if you’re looking to screen candidates – or to get hired. |
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A little website showing demonstrating the most commonly used Bootstrap layout. While effective, I tend to agree that sites using Bootstrap tend to look identical – which is why I always recommend using it only for internal administrator panels, if anything. |
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In this article I describe why I prefer writing plain JavaScript modules. as opposed to modules that rely on a framework like React or even a library like jQuery. Favoring small plain JavaScript modules is favoring reusability, composability, and portability.
Read this if you’re into authoring libraries! |
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Kent introduces you to git, contribution guidelines, forking and cloning, pull requests, rebasing, squashing, and generally everything you need to know before you can start getting your toes wet in the open-source waters of GitHub. |
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An important read.
Mike explains what constitutes good behavior when it comes to collaborating on pull requests on GitHub. It’s always important to stay nice to each other in order for a healthy community to prevail. |
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Kent again. This time he walks us through publishing an open-source library to GitHub and npm. He doesn’t stop there and he goes on to offer information about versioning, testing, automated deployments, code coverage, continuous integration, and even on using ES6! |
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