I read something about that...

Links, blog articles and videos of technological interest, curated by a fan of WordPress, JavaScript and the Open Web.

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Interesting utilities available to let you write JS with some of the sugar/techniques from ClojureScript

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Dave Rupert outlines what the "deliverables" for a web design have come to look like in the era of multi-screen, responsive websites and applications

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Reflog is a life-saving (well, work-saving) tool hidden within the Git version control system; this article explains how it works, and how to use it to recover lost commits after an ill-advised reset.

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View arbitrary text in the awesome fonts used in old arcade games!

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Not tech, for once: This was a recommended set of Cinema 4D tutorials

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This Bash beginner's guide entry walks through all the comparator and file status flags that can be used inside square brackets in Bash scripts

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I've been writing a lot of bash scripts in the last week (take that, know-it-all college dorm-mates and your "I know bash" superiority!), and this guide to exit statuses has made writing branching logic paths much easier.

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Draggabilly is a new drag-and-drop library from desandro; h/t to Tim Branyen for the link.

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If services on your Vagrant box are configured to use configuration files within a /vagrant shared directory, those files will not be available on boot. This article (shared by @gnarf) gives some ways to start your services *after* that shared folder mapping has occurred.

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npm start and npm test are special scripts you can define in a node package, but you can also define arbitrary custom scripts in your package.json file, then invoke them with npm run

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The official word on JavaScript memory profiling in Chrome

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A helpful article explaining how to write good commit messages so that you can retrace your steps when you need to. This may be the original source of the "as soon as you look away, you're debugging" concept:

Any software project is a collaborative project. It has at least two developers, the original developer and the original developer a few weeks or months later when the train of thought has long left the station.

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The DevTools Heap Profiler and Timeline Memory view can be used to diagnose memory leaks on both desktop and mobile... however, they can feel like a little like a black box, requiring some trial and error to correctly master.

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A quick demonstration of how Angular can be used to build a lightweight spreadsheet

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Nicholas Zakas walks through a JavaScript implementation of a doubly-linked list

A doubly-linked list is similar to a single linked list except that it has bidirectional links between nodes. Instead of just having a next pointer on each node, there’s also a previous pointer and instead of just tracking the head of the list, you also track the tail (the last node).

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This Build New Games article explains how to avoid GC penalties in your code to ensure a smooth framerate. It was written for games, but I've used these tips for traditional applications as well!

If you want your game to run at 60 frames per second, 16 milliseconds is all you have to get everything done... you’ll quickly discover that one area of substantial impact to performance is object construction and subsequent garbage collection.