The Universal

AWS-um General web require-navigator [github/lxe] is a Chrome extension for making navigating Node require()s in GitHub easier. focusable [github/zzarcon] is a JavaScript library for adding focus to a given DOM element on your page. firefox.html [github/paulrouget] is an experiment in implementing the Firefox UI in HTML. Here’s a guide to using ECMAScript 6 proxies [2ality], a meta-programming feature. aws-go [github/stripe] is an experimental set of automatically-generated AWS clients written in Go. Lastly for this section, Dante [michelson.github] is a WYSIWYG editor built to look and work like Medium’s.

The Universal Design Here’s a look at some core CSS animation skills: Gravity, Squash and Stretch[demosthenes]. And here’s an article about keeping design universal [medium]. And an article about famed UI designer Bret Victor [medium].

Hyperextension SitePoint It’s been a while since we sent this here newsletter out, so here are a few of the great articles released in our absence. Here’s a great look at how to keep your mobile apps in people’s minds. Then some advice about avoiding Sass’s extend directive. And a summing up of an interesting and dynamic year in mobile.

Pretty Vacant News/business Here’s a really interesting post from Travis CI’s “director of bacon relations” (seriously) Mathias Meyer on how their “open vacation” policy had unintended consequences, leading to a new “minimum required vacation” policy [paperplanes]. Then there’s an article about the moral dimensions of technologies [thefrailestthing]. Kind of heavy-sounding, but excellent. Then there’s a quick read with five common ways to mess up your PR strategy [thenextweb]. Lastly for this section, British spy agency the GCHQ has launched a cryptography app aimed at students [thenextweb].

Christmas Gif Guide Off-topic You can now create animated gifs from YouTube videos [arstechnica]. You can also create real lenticular prints from animated gifs [gifpop]. So you can now take a video, upload it to YouTube, convert it to an animation, then make a print. Our heads hurt. Related: here are seven tips for designing decent animated gifs [blog.invisionapp]. Useful for your next print.  Christmas is next week, but it might not be too late to get someone something special, like this cool Raspberry Pi laptop you can build yourself [pi-top]. Finally, Workflow is a really clever new automation app for iOS 8, here’s a review and explanation of how it works [macstories].

That's it for us today. Apologies for the intermittent newsletter sending last week. We're back to a normal schedule for this, our last week of the year! More info about that later this week.