Logged Everything you need to know about console logging.

Tick tock Understanding Node.js’ process.nextTick.

Responsive The Boston Globe shares their experience building UIs with responsive design. And I linked to this before, but might as well, a template to get you started.

Hack away The Hacker Way. Must read.

Results Titled as advice for CEOs, but I think anyone who manages people and products should watch this.

Attention Daming write up on the long term side-effects (or lack thereof) of Ritalin.

QotD strommen:

Real programmers aren’t afraid to check in edits to jquery.min.js

Tested On testing and testers:

I’m yet to see well-written test code in organizations that have testers separate from developers. Sadly, this is accepted as a fact of life when it doesn’t need to be.

Writing Just wanted to throw another recommendation for iA Writer. It’s my go-to tool for drafting anything on the Mac or iPad. If you liked WriteRoom before it bloated, iA Writer is that original vision, executer better and with … wait for it … Markdown support.

Up Using Up to keep your Node server running and for zero down-time deploys.

Sexy Beautiful Docs, a curated list of sites that have great documentation. And if you need beautiful docs without the hassle, you’ve got to try DocumentUp.

Care Why Most UX is Shite. Wonderfully summed in a 10-slide presentation, full text in the post. How about that for a good UX?

If you want better UX, stop looking at your design team and whichever new sexy UI you’ve seen this week, take a long hard look at your organisation and whether it caring about UX is part of its cultural make up and what evidence there is, beneath the interface, of this being true.

Research has shown … What scientists say in research papers vs. What they actually mean.

QotD badbanana:

For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction. Plus a social media overreaction.

Cool Binary Tetris, a simplified variant of the classic tetris game done in less that 140 bytes of JavaScript.

Reality bites Best explanation for the inevitable practice of always delivering late: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?

Weee! Playing around with Vagrant and can’t find Unbuntu 11.10? Learn how to build your own Vagrant box using Veewee.

Moar Another wonderful presentation by Zach Holman, Scaling Github.

Click to agree World’s best privacy policy:

We firmly believe that privacy is unimportant and meaningless to you. If it were not, you probably would not have a Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn account: and you certainly wouldn’t ever use a search engine like Google. If you’re one of those tin-foil-hat crazies that actually cares about privacy: stop using our services and get a life.

QotD Saša Tomislav:

99 bugs in the legacy code, 99 bugs in the code. Take one down, pass it around. 102 bugs in the legacy code.

QotD Tom Dale:

I use node.eps because I can use the same code on both the server and the printer.

Node.ref All new Node.js reference site, includes Node.js guide and JavaScript reference.

Sneak peek MongoDB indexing chapter from MongoDB in Action, which is a pretty good book.

GETSET Get started with Redis by reading The Little Redis Book.

Together ShareJS “lets you easily do live concurrent editing in your app”. Now I need an excuse app to use this.

What a diff What it says on the bottle: Git config powerup with aliases, diff & log.

Heros A great McSweeney’s: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.

QotD Conor McBride:

To those who say “Recursion is recursion.”, I say “Nonsense! Recursion is either trivial or only slightly more difficult than recursion.”.

HTML We Can Two killer presentations from Eric Bidelman: The Edge of HTML 5 and What’s New in HTML5 Media

Fan This week I installed Sensu on our servers. Sensu is a modern-day Nagios, if Nagios was Puppet, Sensu is the Chef. Recommended, even though the documentation is not quite there yet, and expect to spend some time digging into source code. Good place to start and get your hello Sensu running: Getting started with Sensu

Voyeur Taking a peek at the Trello tech stack.

pipe.json How about some command-line utilities for manipulazing JSON with UNIX pipes?

dash C Checking out iTerm 2 and tmux integration.

Off by one Brilliant: 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes – Developer Errors:

77X - Predictable Problems
  771 - Cached for too long
  772 - Not cached long enough
  773 - Not cached at all
  774 - Why was this cached?

QotD Eiríkr Åsheim:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use multithreading”. Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems.

Cheatsheet JSRef is a slick, alternative MDN Javascript documentation viewer

Red/green I’m curious to try this out. Sam Stephenson:

What if diff highlighting were flipped—green for removed lines and red for added lines? Code is debt. Removing it should be a celebration.

Snatched 365 days in the life of an outdoor bike in NYC. Related, “who pinched my ride?”

QotD DevOps Borat:

Is not metaprogramming if you are still understand it after 2 week.

UX An interesting look at usability, and how real users don’t play along with how the software was ‘designed to be used’. On the Usability of Codecademy.

Property of Keep this in mind, a JavaScript Object is not a true Hash/Map. But also read the first comment about ES5′s Object.create and ES6.

What a difference A telling comparison, if you ask me. The Ninety-Nine Problems written in Java, Scala, Clojure and Haskell.

Wat Hilarious five minute talk about some lesser known Ruby and JS WTFs.

All the time Garann Means:

Have you ever noticed how frequently people follow “I’m going to work from home” with “so I can get some work done”?

QotD isaacs:

JS is just like Perl in so many ways. Super ugly, super useful, huge prolific community, and version 6 will never happen.

Scale The Amazon whitepaper on running MongoDB on AWS is full of good info. Nothing earth shattering, just not anything you want to learn the trial & error way.

Yields Interesting read about co-routines, generators and JavaScript: Why coroutines won’t work on the web.

Worth repeating Life would be simpler if GET, PUT and DELETE were all, always, idempotent.

Uptime Turns out morning people and nightowls show different brain function:

“In morning people their cortical excitability actually decreased throughout the day. It was highest in the morning and lowest in the evening,” said Tamm. “It was the opposite for evening people; their brain activity was highest at 9 p.m.”

So true Art Taylor:

I have two new rules. 1) If your application is slow, add caching. 2) If your application is buggy, remove caching.

QotD Majd Jack Taby:

Appendix.js – You can take it out, and it won’t make a difference

Moar info Even though Zombie.js is a test tool, designed for people who write tests, you’ll be surprised how many people report issues without including a test case (hint: almost all). Or for that matter, how many bug reports are untestable. Kind of depressing. Maybe I should start linking to this page.

Vim Loving ctrlp - Fuzzy file, buffer, mru and tag finder for Vim

Intuitive The Quiz Daniel Kahneman Wants You to Fail. A great read on why intuition fails us so often (not just politicians).

QotD Kent Beck:

doing good engineering is not primarily making good decisions, it’s seeking good feedback which lets you quickly discard bad decisions

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Impress your boss Case study: How & why to build a consumer app with Node.js

Non blocking On the performance impact of loading JavaScript with insertBefore and async=true.

Think small Interesting tidbit from Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams:

QSM found another explanation for the huge cost differential between small and large teams. The defect rate for the large teams was five times greater than for the small teams.

/bin/sh To boldly go where no SQL has gone before: Relational shell programming.

QotD Coda Hale:

You don’t “beat the CAP theorem”. You “build distributed systems that don’t suck miserably”. At best.