Recently I built a web app for the Eurovision Song Contest. Here are the things I would like to have known 6 week ago. Some days into the project Lambda added Node 4.3 support. Previously the only supported Node version …

A tidy, linear Git history It’s challenging the keep the commit history clean when the team grows. This is one solution, Aron uses it at MixedZone and is very happy with it. How to Rebase a Pull Request Learn how …

Welcome back! What Is Functional Programming? Must read. Which Programming Languages Are Functional? Must read (continued). the changelog #187 With Dan Abramov, creator of redux.

GitHub Cheat Sheet While top 5 Ejmojis on GitHub are most important. :smile: RegExr v2.0 Very nice rework by Grant Skinner and his team. node core vs userland IMO the most important node paradigm. Only things that are very hard …

Our “weekly digest” is now “read later” – because it wasn’t really weekly and most of the links were older anyway. So, without further ado, here are the links: Edge conference videos are online “Relive every second of Edge with …

… or even more suitable: “plugin mess”. But I’ll start at the beginning. I wanted to take look at Grunt for a while now. Finally, a couple of weeks ago, I ran into a problem that I couldn’t overcome with …

This issue of our weekly digest has a bit of everything: performance, tools, security – audio, video, text … Happy reading, watching, listening.

Just yesterday I received an email from kickstarter telling me that their database servers were hacked and that someone was able to access all my account data: Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. …

This week’s digest is about optimization – how to get more out of mobile performance, Responsive Web Design, your tools, your daily working hours and JS in general. Happy reading.

There was a lot of buzz around YOU MIGHT NOT NEED JQUERY the last couple of days – we also mentioned it in our weekly digest #2 from last monday. YMNNJ is a collection of vanilla JavaScript snippets that can …

Second week of our link collection – some old, some new. But each one worth your time. Of course. Happy reading.

Nowadays, when you talk to a web developer about building a (mobile) website, performance is one of the topics that comes up quickly. This is absolutely great and we have to say ‘thank you’ to a bunch of people never …

Today we are starting a new type of post: a weekly digest of articles, videos or just links we stumbled upon during the last week. They don’t have to be brand-new, hyped or hot on Hacker News to get onto our list (link #1 is from 2012) … instead being great, entertaining or just full of good stuff helps a lot :)

We recently moved this blog from WordPress to Octopress. Static pages FTW! And because we have static pages we want to use every CDN power we can get. We choose to use AWS CloudFront. There are some fine tutorials on …

The biggest advantage of ebooks over printed ones is – of course – that there are no more fixed pages. Every device can decide how it wants to display the content. With digital books it is possible to have the same excellent user experience on a small smartphone screen as well as on a huge desktop monitor. But with all these advantages there also come challenges. One is positioning inside the book. So what to do, when you want to save the user’s current reading position, so that he can continue on the same “page” when he comes back? Since the user can read the text on different devices with different screen resolutions and different text settings (e.g. font size settings) you can not simply save “Page 36″.