A Clean Break

Not OverReact General web Coisas [github/fiatjaf] is a pure JavaScript CMS to use to create multipurpose pages in GitHub Pages. StarHub [stuff.hanula.com] is a quick way to access your (or someone else’s) GitHub favorites. mkcast [github/keyboardfire] is a tool for creating animated GIFs out of terminal usage. FastImage [github/sdsykes] is a Ruby gem to find the size or type of a given image using its URI and not much else. Here’s the full vid [youtube/facebookdevelopers] and an accompanying HN thread [news.ycombinator] unveiling ReactNative, Facebook’s new way to build native apps using ReactJS (thanks Kelle!). Speaking of things that happened at React.js, here’s fixed-data-table, a React component for presenting thousands (millions?) of rows of data (again, thanks Kelle!). And one more React thing: React Hot Loader [github/gaearon] lets you tweak React components in real-time. Spring [github/mengto] is a library to simplify iOS animations in Swift. Here are some koans to help you learn Go [github/cdarwin]. For some reason they’re not called Goans? A missed opportunity. And here’s a pretty comprehensive run-down of sytax differences across programming languages [rigaux]. PyDark [pydark] is a video game engine made for building for 2D, online multiplayer games. A Clean Break Design Design Break [designbreak] offers a selection of designer-centric games or sources of inspiration. The new Twitter video feature for its mobile app was pretty well-designed, according to Wired [wired]. Depthy [depthy] is a pretty cool tool for creating animated GIFs with 3D parallax out of Google Camera Lens Blur photos. UX Essentials [uxessentials] is a weekly newsletter with five UX-ey links every Sunday. Positive Image SitePoint First up in terms of SitePoint today, we’re proud to announce our support of Open Web advocate Molly Holzschlag [community.sitepoint]. If you’re not familiar with Molly, here’s her Wikipedia page [wikipedia]. Once you’re up to speed, consider donating to the GoFundMe campaign [gofundme]. Here’s a guide to making sure your WordPress images are lightweight and looking good. And here’s an intro to RAML, the RESTful API modeling language. Protection Money News/business Imposter Syndrome sucks, here’s a great piece on how to combat it [medium/the-year-of-the-looking-glass]. Google paid out $1.5 million in security rewards last year [googleonlinesecurity], and is looking to expand its security rewards programs. So go get that money! Here’s FiveThirtyEight with a short (16 mins) doco on Grace Hopper [fivethirtyeight], a brilliant programmer who worked on the world’s first computer, headed the team that created the first compiler, and generally kicked ass. The doco is also directed by Gillian Jacobs, of Community fame. Cutie Pi Off-topic SculptGL [stephaneginier] is a WebGL sculpting app which is really, really fun. The new Raspberry Pi [theregister] looks really cool. Finally, here are some desktop backgrounds for those of us with multi-monitor screen setups [twelvesouth]. That's it for us today, thanks for joining us once again. We'll be spending the rest of the day sculpting a virtual coffee mug, just because. See you again tomorrow!