december.md

December 2018

• It's 2019 and I Still Make Websites with my Bare Hands - https://medium.com/@mattholt/its-2019-and-i-still-make-websites-with-my-bare-hands-73d4eec6b7

• @webreflection's Wicked, a Custom Elements Alternative - https://itnext.io/a-wicked-custom-elements-alternative-6d1504b5857f

• Rosmaro framework for writing functions of state and action - https://medium.com/dailyjs/a-javascript-framework-for-functions-of-state-and-action-26b7789eeed0

• XML+XSLT in a browser - https://www.yegor256.com/2014/06/25/xml-and-xslt-in-browser.html

• "a JavaScript music utility library that contains small music notation related functions" - https://github.com/madewithlove/music-fns

• "Space Shuttle style" code convention: comment even the obvious, make it explicit as possible, "keep the space shuttle flying" - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e59395376fa191d7c56a74f53936b7653/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go#L54-L69

• Found it! Finally! Snippets, a Firefox Scratchpad-like console for Chrome - https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/snippets#create_snippet

• Five #ux tips for making form input fields better - https://medium.com/@martha.bergmann/lets-make-input-fields-better-5789f09c8f0

• Designing web layouts for screen readers - https://benrobertson.io/accessibility/designing-layouts-for-screen-readers

• Taking care of your (npm) dependencies - https://sirikon.me/post/taking-care-of-your-dependencies/

• Ana Tudor, DRY Switching: Advanced CSS Variables - https://css-tricks.com/dry-switching-with-css-variables-the-difference-of-one-declaration/

• Color name chart (plus other useful tools) on quackit https://www.quackit.com/css/color/charts/css_color_names_chart.cfm

• Crockford's color name test page http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/color.html

• How to use aria-live https://bitsofco.de/using-aria-live/

• (from 2014) Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize http://tojans.me/blog/2014/02/17/why-bad-software-architecture-is-easy-to-monetize/

  • Building a single framework to rule all your customers is just plain wrong. I did it in the past and now I know better.

  • If you opt for the cheap, short term solution, it will cost you a lot more money in the long run.

  • Software architecture can not be fixed, it needs to be tailored to your specific requirements, because writing software is a creative process with a lot of unknowns, which will grow exponentially in costs if you do not manage them properly.

• @chrisferdinandi on event delegation, bubbling, and capturing https://gomakethings.com/whats-the-difference-between-javascript-event-delegation-bubbling-and-capturing/

  • Related:
    • @webreflection on the handleEvent API method https://medium.com/@WebReflection/dom-handleevent-a-cross-platform-standard-since-year-2000-5bf17287fd38

• Accessibility = Innovation https://blog.prototypr.io/accessibility-innovation-20912107fc4e

• Thomas J. Sargent & John Stachurski, from Lectures in Quantitative Economics, Discrete State Dynamic Programming, https://lectures.quantecon.org/py/discrete_dp.htm

• Jeffrey K. Weber & Vijay S. Pandea, Percolation-like phase transitions in network models of protein dynamics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC445765

• JIRA is an anti-pattern https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/

• imaskjs ~ vanilla javascript input mask https://unmanner.github.io/imaskjs/

• forgJs ~ javascript object validator https://github.com/oussamahamdaoui/forgJs

• Uwe Friedrichsen from 2015, The Broken Promise of Re-use - https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2015/10/the-broken-promise-of-re-use/