For the Record

 

Dashed General web Almace Scaffolding [github/sparanoid] is a super-fast Jekyll framework. Dashbrew [github/mdkholy] is a Vagrant build that aims to provide a PHP development environment for developing both web and command-line projects on different PHP versions and configurations. (Thanks Mohamed!) Here’s a really amazing talk from Glen Maddern about creating mind-bending music GIF animation stuff [youtube/jsconf]. Here’s a post about shifting from a monolithic Ruby app to a bunch of Go microservices [sourcegraph]. Laughing Stock Design This is a really interesting, thoughtful post (originally a presentation) by Frank Chimero about responsive design, perception, edgelessness and a bunch of other things [frankchimero]. And here’s an AMA with Google’s VP of design [news.layervault]. Open Book SitePoint We wrote a new book: HTML5 and CSS3 For the Real World: 2nd Edition! And by we, we mean you too, as we crowdsourced a lot of the ideas for content updates. So, thanks for that/read the book! Then we take a look at parsing URLs with isomorphic JavaScript. And here’s a look at making the Bootstrap Carousel more interesting with CSS3 animations. Here’s a great little list of five free, fantastic-looking fonts. Good On Paper News/business Get a load of these cool new Ubuntu phones [theverge]. They’ll probably completely blow Apple and Android away, right? Chatlio [chatlio] is a service to allow your customers to chat with you from a widget on your site, with the chat getting piped to Slack or Hipchat or whatever your company uses (thanks Kat!). Paperspace [paperspace] is “a cloud-based computer you can access from anywhere” (that has a browser). It’s pretty slick and the company has even produced a cheap hardware puck thing you can use to connect to your computer. Google has (finally) updated and improved its contact manager [google]. Backchannel has 5 good ideas for Apple Watch apps [medium/backchannel]. For the Record Off-topic Here’s how the iPhone helped MacStories founder Federico Viticci achieve a healthier lifestyle after cancer treatment [macstories]. A really lovely post. This is a really good idea: Let’s back up the Internet Archive! [archiveteam]. Finally, this Chrome add-on [chrome.google] is a handy way to remind yourself that social media is a great way to communicate and an even better way to ruin your life (thanks Kat!). That's it for us today, we'll see you in line for a new Ubuntu phone!