Postlight engineer director Gina Trapani tries to make sense of the modern JavaScript landscape.
Posted March 24, 2017
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Pump Six and Other Stories, by Paolo Bacigalupi
(Amazon link) A collection of brain-melting short sci-fi stories from a polluted and impoverished future that is a lot less depressing than I just made it sound. This has been out since 2010 but I recently re-read the whole thing. RIYL Ted Chiang, et al.
Posted March 23, 2017
Mare Internum (a webcomic)
Adventures beneath the surface of Mars, by Der-shing Helmer, author of The Meek, another webcomic I haven't started in on yet. Helmer's biology background makes for some interesting Martian fauna. Backed by me on Patreon.
Posted March 22, 2017
DUST: sci-fi short films
An independent streaming channel featuring short science fiction films. Also on YouTube.
Posted March 21, 2017
CSS Font Stack
Web-safe font stacks, complete with browser support. (Cue sound of designers weeping Helvetica support.)
Posted March 20, 2017
The three reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber
A post-mortem on the PewDiePie fiasco. The always-on, always-producing YouTuber culture sounds exhausting.
Posted March 17, 2017
entr(1)
A lightweight Unix CLI for automating tasks. Intended primarily for test automation but probably a useful replacement for the Linux-exclusive inotifywait. (Via)
Posted March 16, 2017
HTML5 Up
Tons of free and paid HTML 5 templates to use and dissect.
Posted March 15, 2017
Disabling auto-playing video on OS X
Hinges (a webcomic)
Meredith McClaren's charming adventure story about a city of clockwork people concluded in February. (I burned through it in one sitting.)
Posted March 14, 2017