Sunday, December 12, 2021

Bit Slicer

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Bit Slicer is a universal game trainer for macOS, written using Cocoa and Mach kernel APIs. It allows you to cheat in video games by searc...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Git: Stacked Commits

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All development is done as commits on local main (aka master ) - see below for some benefit Everything is done through regular old comm...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Webrecorder

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Webrecorder project builds tools to specializing in a ‘user-driven’ form of web archiving, where the user is able to direct the archiving pr...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Questions for a new technology

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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

microstates.js

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Composable State Primitives for JavaScript
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Handles are the better pointers

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Dynamic memory management in C and C++ that replaces raw- and smart-pointers with "index-handles".
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

OSStatus

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Look up Apple API errors.
Thursday, August 2, 2018

SVG Path Editor

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SVG Path Editor lets you edit and optimize SVG's path element. It takes only one path element. You can edit viewport, scale, flip, rotat...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

UIDebuggingInformationOverlay

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UIDebuggingInformationOverlay is a private UIWindow subclass created by Apple, presumably to help developers and designers debug Apple’s o...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Checking if we're running with a user gesture

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function isUserInteraction() { const detectionElement = window.document.createElement('audio'); detectionElement.play(); retur...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

The things I hate (and you should know) about Apple Universal Links

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Thursday, January 12, 2017

SampleViewer

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A primitive viewer application for macOS 'sample'-files taken with the Sample command line tool or the Activity Viewer utility.
Monday, December 5, 2016

WKWebView and NSURLProtocol

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There's a private browsingContextController property that can be used to make WKWebView trigger NSURLProtocol s for HTTP and HTTPS.
Monday, November 7, 2016

Deploymate

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Deploymate helps you identify unavailable, deprecated and obsolete API usage in your Xcode projects.

iOS WebKit Debug Proxy

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The ios_webkit_debug_proxy (aka iwdp) allows developers to inspect MobileSafari and UIWebViews on real and simulated iOS devices via the Chr...

TouchBarScreenshotter

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Very simple background app to save a screenshot of the currently active Touch Bar to the Desktop. It floats as an overlay over all apps, and...

Touch Bar Demo App

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Touch Bar Demo App allows you to use your macOS Touch Bar from an iPad (through USB connection) or on-screen by pressing the Fn-key. It show...
Monday, October 24, 2016

OSStatus

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Look up Apple framework errors by code, name, etc.
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Snipposé

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A simple macOS tool for briefly hightlighting a small portion of a screen, zooming and centering it on the screen until dismissed. Great for...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

httpstat

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httpstat visualizes curl(1) statistics.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Browser Bug Searcher

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Search for bugs across all the major browser vendors.
Monday, September 12, 2016

Scroll jank due to touch/wheel handlers demo

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Thursday, September 8, 2016

JSCompiler Debugger

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AST dumps and whatnot.
Friday, July 29, 2016

flow-remove-types

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Turn your JavaScript with Flow type annotations into standard JavaScript in an instant with no configuration and minimal setup.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

stress

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stress is a deliberately simple workload generator for POSIX systems. It imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, and disk stress...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Paw

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Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and generate client code.
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Git Extras

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Repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more.
Friday, January 22, 2016

Knuff

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Application to send test Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) messages.
Friday, January 15, 2016

git-land/git-land

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Git extension that merges a pull request or topic branch via rebasing so as to avoid a merge commit.
Thursday, January 7, 2016

mention-bot

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The mention bot will automatically mention potential reviewers on pull requests. It helps getting faster turnaround on pull requests by inv...

Sickle

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Sickle processes TypeScript and adds Closure Compiler -compatible JSDoc annotations. This allows using TypeScript to transpile your sources,...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Codepoints

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Codepoints.net is dedicated to all the characters, that are defined in the Unicode Standard. Theoretically, these should be all characters e...
Monday, December 14, 2015

dariusk/corpora

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A collection of small corpuses of interesting data for the creation of bots and similar stuff.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Drool

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Drool is an automation layer that is used to measure if a set of "clean" actions results in a DOM and or Listener leak.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

MaximAbramchuck/awesome-interviews

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A curated list of lists of interview questions.
Sunday, November 29, 2015

FLIP Your Animations

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Instead of animating “straight ahead” and potentially doing expensive calculations on every single frame precalculate the animation dynamica...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

source-map-explorer

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The source map explorer determines which file each byte in your minified JS came from. It shows you a treemap visualization to help you debu...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Rewind

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Rewind efficiently and continuously records your Mac's screen so at any moment you can rewind to see an "instant replay" movie...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

DataLoader

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DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application's data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various ke...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Unicorn

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Unicorn is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework.
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Adding edge swipe to SFSafariViewController

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Subclass SFSafariViewController , add a view on the edge, and add a UIScreenEdgePanGestureRecognizer to it.
Monday, October 5, 2015

Aspects

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Library for aspect oriented programming. Think of Aspects as method swizzling on steroids. It allows you to add code to existing methods per...

Flexbugs

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A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

velocity-react

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React components for interacting with the Velocity DOM animation library.
Monday, September 28, 2015

BBEdit Expert Preferences

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There are a number of behaviors in BBEdit for which there are no UI controls in the Preferences window; this is typically because the settin...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

asciimoo/memspector

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Inspect memory usage of Python functions.
Monday, September 21, 2015

facebook/pfff

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pfff is a set of tools and APIs to perform some static analysis (e.g. to find bugs), dynamic analysis, source code indexing, code search, co...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Bridgy

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Bridgy is a service that pulls comments, likes, and reshares on social networks back to your web site. You can also use it to post to social...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

TIS-100

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TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code s...

react-strict-prop-types

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A higher order component that raises an error if a component is used with an unknown property. A property is considered unknown when it is n...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Cosmos

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Cosmos scans your project for React component fixtures and loads them inside ComponentPlayground , enabling you to: Render your components...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Six Speed

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Performance of ES6 features (as implemented natively and via transpilers) relative to the ES5 baseline operations per second.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

v8-perf

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Notes and resources related to v8 and thus Node.js performance.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Delivering high scroll performance

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To diagnose jerky scrolling in their iOS app, Facebook measures the frame rate and when it drops below a certain threshold it has a watchdog...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

@import Frameworks into LLDB

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Can now say expr @import Foundation (or UIKit or Cocoa ) to get access to Foundation/UIKit/AppKit methods in the Xcode debugger.
Monday, May 18, 2015

jscodeshift

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jscodeshift is a toolkit for running codemods over multiple JS files. See also js-codemod , which contains a collection of codemod scripts...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

ngrid

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ngrid is a tool for interactive browsing large tabular datasets in a text-based terminal enviroment. ngrid is to tables as less is to text.

Otto

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A JavaScript interpreter in Go.

Favicon Generator

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Generate the favicon pictures and HTML code that work on all major browsers and platforms.
Monday, May 11, 2015

lz-string

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JS compression library meant to make storage of data in quota-limited localStorage more manageable.

ramjet

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Morph DOM elements from one state to another with smooth transitions.
Thursday, April 30, 2015

ClangFormat

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ClangFormat describes a set of tools that are built on top of LibFormat . It can support your workflow in a variety of ways including a stan...

foursquare/FSQCellManifest

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A UITableView and UICollectionView delegate and datasource that provides a simpler unified interface for describing your sections and cells.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

A Complete Guide to Flexbox

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paulirish/memory-stats.js

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Gauge for JS heap size. See also stats.js for an FPS display.

Detecting Element Resizing

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sdecima/javascript-detect-element-resize and KyleAMathews/element-resize-event both appear to use two <div> and scroll events to d...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Animating SVGs With CSS Transforms

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Necessary for hitting 60 FPS on mobile.
Monday, February 2, 2015

NuclearMail

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NuclearMail is an experiment of writing a webmail client using React and the Flux architecture. It runs completely in the browser and uses t...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

UIKit Debug Mode

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UIKit has hidden, useful debug flags for gesture/touch/animation logs, enable "InternalBuild" mode to switch them on.

fishhook

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fishhook is a very simple library that enables dynamically rebinding symbols in Mach-O binaries running on iOS in the simulator and on devic...

Towards declarative touch interactions Slalom

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A system with prototype implementation for concisely describing and implementing a class of touch interactions.
Friday, January 2, 2015

Xcode Consolation

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Tips on using the Xcode debugging console (i.e. LLDB), notably on using regular expressions to add lots of breakpoints to trace execution.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Hopper+lldb for iOS Developers: A Gentle Introduction

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Tutorial on how to use Hopper to find out how Apple frameworks work.
Monday, December 8, 2014

HeapInspector

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HeapInspector is an iOS debug tool that monitors the memory heap in your app. You can discover memory leaks, no longer needed living objects...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Quill - A Rich Text Editor with an API

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ContentEditable-based extensible rich text editor
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

widged/kinetic

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Kinetic Scrolling with JavaScript
Monday, November 3, 2014

Immutable Data Collections

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Immutable data cannot be changed once created, leading to much simpler application development, no defensive copying, and enabling advanced ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

FrameViewer How-To

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Good overview of about:tracing and of Chrome's rendering pipeline in general.
Monday, June 2, 2014

scribe/BROWSERINCONSISTENCIES.md

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contentEditable browser inconsistencies that The Guardian ran into while developing their Scribe library .
Thursday, May 1, 2014

GitHub Cheat Sheet

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A collection of cool hidden and not so hidden features of Git and GitHub.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

facebook/chisel

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Chisel is a collection of LLDB commands to assist in the debugging of iOS apps.

Lesser-Known JavaScript Debugging Techniques

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debug() , monitor() , monitorEvents() and a Chrome extension to extend these to native methods and custom events.
Saturday, March 29, 2014

ImageFiller

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Quickly fills your iPhones Photo Album with thousands of random images from lorempixel.com .
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

LICEcap

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LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). Sort of r...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Clipping Magic

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Instantly create masks, cutouts, and clipping paths.
Monday, February 24, 2014

BBUDebuggerTuckAway

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Xcode plugin for auto-hiding the debugger once you start typing in the source code editor.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

JavaScript Memory Profiling

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Deep dive into the Chrome/V8 heap profiler.

fseventer

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Observes filesystem changes using the same underlying API as Spotlight and provides a graphical representation of the file activity.
Thursday, January 2, 2014

MachOView

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MachOView is a visual Mach-O file browser. It provides a complete solution for exploring and in-place editing Intel and ARM binaries.
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Library Inspector

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Library Inspector is a simple tool for inspecting the contents of compiled object code, archives, dynamic libraries (dylib), frameworks and ...

Hopper

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Hopper is a reverse engineering tool for OS X, Linux and Windows, that lets you disassemble, decompile and debug (OS X only) your 32/64bits ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Avoiding repaints due to :hover selectors while scrolling

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...by disabling pointer events during the scroll.
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Reverse engineering Xcode with dtrace

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Sample dtrace scripts for tracing Objective-C message sends (with filtering and indentation to make flows easier to follow).
Monday, October 7, 2013

paulirish/break-on-access

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Simple Dev Tools snippet for adding breakpoints when JavaScript changes property values (including ones for built-in objects).
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Python Memory Leaks

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Object graph visualization library, as described in these blog posts: Hunting memory leaks in Python Python object graphs Object graphs ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

SimFinger

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Helper tools (fake apps, fake carrier, tap indicator) for recording iOS app screencasts. See this blog post for more details.
Friday, June 7, 2013

PonyDebugger

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PonyDebugger is a remote debugging toolset. It is a client library and gateway server combination that uses Chrome Developer Tools on your b...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Clear in the iCloud

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Clear uses a custom system built on top of iCloud File Storage and it works in a similar fashion to Operational Transformation. The post pro...

NS: Poor Man’s Namespacing for Objective-C

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Preprocessor hack that works around the lack of namespaces in Objective C.
Friday, April 26, 2013

Alternative UIWebView to Objective-C communication paths

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WebViewJavascriptBridge ( and similar libraries ) rely on loading a custom URL scheme in an iframe and intercepting the request in should...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Tuneup JS

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Tune-up is a collection of JavaScript utilities that builds upon and improves the UIAutomation library provided by Apple for testing iOS app...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

JavaScript Madness: Keyboard Events

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Summarizes the results of some browser tests done while attempting to implement key stroke handling code in JavaScript. It documents inconsi...
Friday, April 19, 2013

CSS Table Border Conflict Resolution

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Explains why this works.
Thursday, April 18, 2013

iOS WebKit modifications

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Apple does code dumps on their open source releases site. For iOS, this contains WebCore and JavaScriptCore (because of LGPL), but not We...

MiniXcode

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Plugin that makes it easier to run Xcode without the main toolbar. It adds keyboard shortcuts for selecting the active scheme and device (Ct...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

FastClick

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FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing of a click event on mobile ...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Deep JS object comparisons

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Micro-benchmark comparing doing manual object property traversal and using JSON.stringify and string comparison of the result. One might t...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Array loop iteration style

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So long, for (var i = 0, p; p = a[i]; i++) {...} . Also related are these tests of Array.prototype.splice() performance .
Monday, January 28, 2013

Screenshot Uploader App

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Minimal iOS app that uploads screenshots to a designated folder in Dropbox. Once configured, it should just be a matter of briefly launching...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Automating iOS Screenshots

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Post describing the use of a self-driving screenshot mode for apps (uses WaxSim for a CLI interface to the simulator). See also the origin...
Friday, January 4, 2013

View chunk-level diffs of PNG files

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Download zlib and build it with ./configure and make . Download pngcheck . Make sure that the zlib directory is called zlib and is a s...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Clutch.io

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Clutch.io is two projects: Native A/B testing for iOS and Android A toolkit for developing hybrid native/HTML applications for iOS
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Animated GIFs the Hard Way

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Python development in Pants

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Pants makes the manipulation and distribution of hermetically sealed Python environments painless.

Word wrapping/hyphenation using CSS

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

iOS Runtime Headers

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iOS Objective-C headers as derived from runtime introspection. Generated using RuntimeBrowser .
Sunday, November 11, 2012

ssh-copy-id

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ssh-copy-id installs your public key in a remote machine's authorized_keys . It should be in the contrib of the OpenSSH repository . T...

GPU Accelerated Compositing in Chrome

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Background and details on the implementation of hardware-accelerated compositing in Chrome.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Chromium Setup

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Links: Chromium SVN Credentials Chromium Git Setup Mac build instructions Setting up Ninja Some things in the faster Linux builds pa...

Mailing lists that mihaip@chromium.org was on

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If I ever want to re-join: apps-dev chromium-apps chromium-apps-reviews chromium-dev chromium-extensions chromium-html5 size-reducti...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Disable +1 buttons in Google Reader

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Reload Reader or mark an item as read (so that the command token gets refreshed) and then run the following in the DevTools console: var ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Vector Art in Photoshop

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Vector shapes in Photoshop CS6 Helpful actions Aligning pasted vectors
Friday, October 19, 2012

Xcode Tips

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Xcode 4 splits , Adding a delay to auto-completion and Chromium's tips .
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Deploying at GitHub

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Deploying is a big part of the lives of most GitHub employees. We don't have a release manager and there are no set weekly deploys. Deve...
Friday, October 12, 2012

codesearch - Indexed regular expression-based search

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Code Search is a tool for indexing and then performing regular expression searches over large bodies of source code.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Status Boards

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Panic's and Cultured Code's .

Hybrid Mobile Apps

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Tumblr for iOS : Uses a JSON API and Mustache templates like a mobile site would, but does template evaluation on the native side, with the ...

Commute Tracker iPhone App

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iPhone app that automatically keeps track of your commute and helps you detect patterns. Using geo-fencing, it could keep track of when you ...

Feed filtering Stream Spigot tool

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Build a Stream Spigot tool for filtering of feeds. Unlike Feed Rinse or Yahoo! Pipes , it wouldn't involve taking a feed URL, giving i...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

App Reload Helper Chrome Extension

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To make the Chrome Apps edit-reload cycle faster (especially when there's a build/compilation step), a helper extension could be writte...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Code Explorer (Packaged) App

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Turn Source Quicklinks into a packaged app. It can use <browser> to embed the Chromium code search and have a custom toolbar that al...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Credit card reader Chrome extension

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The Square card reader converts the magnetic stripe on a credit card to audio. Using the getUserMedia() API from WebRTC, it should be poss...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Atop

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Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes (even if processes have finished...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

What are some time-saving tips that every Linux user should know? - Quora

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What are some time-saving tips that every Linux user should know?
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Git BBEdit Package

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A BBEdit package to make working with Git easier.

Foundation Icons Fonts

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Custom icon sets that are stored in a handy web font.
Friday, May 18, 2012

Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac OS X

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Mosh

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Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Lights Out

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iPhone app that lets you put nearby Macs to sleep (discovery can be handled via Bonjour). Unlike iShutdown or Control! , it shouldn't r...
Monday, April 23, 2012

apt-file and finding Ubuntu packages

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apt-file can find which packages include a specific file. Ubuntu Packages Search also provides a web UI.
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Freeze inactive background Chrome tabs

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In the vein of the Firefox extension Dormancy , build a Chrome extension that frees up resources used by background tabs that haven't be...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Derby

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MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.
Monday, March 12, 2012

Pretty-print inline diffs in emails

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Rietveld (and presumably other code review tools) inline diffs in emails. Even if they don't, they generally have a URL that points at ...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

TodoMVC

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TodoMVC is a project which offers the same Todo application implemented using MV* concepts in most of the popular JavaScript MV* frameworks ...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Aleph

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Google has shut down Code Search and the Social Graph API . Replicating those services outside of Google is hard; they presuppose a scalabl...
Monday, February 27, 2012

The Locker Project

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A Locker is a container for personal data, which gives the owner the ability to control how it's protected and shared. It retrieves and ...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

MVC Framework for Node — Matador

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Matador is a clean, organized framework for Node.js architected to suit MVC enthusiasts. It gives you a well-defined development environment...

krillapps

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CodeRunner: Edit and run code in any programming language with just a single click. Write and test code, run scripts, work with algorithms, ...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Building Games with Web Tools

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Code Editors Cloud9 IDE Resources jswiki microJS Sound Music Noteflight  ( brief tutorial ...

dpup/surface - GitHub

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Surface is a JS library intended to help manage single-page applications (or "Ajaxy" apps). It promotes decoupling of components a...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

PhantomJS and confess.js

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PhantomJS provides a headless, yet fully-featured, WebKit browser that can easily be launched off the command-line, and then scripted and ma...
Monday, December 12, 2011

benvanik/node-airplay

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node-airplay is a client library for Apple's AirPlay remote playback protocol. It implements a simple AirPlay device browser using mdns ...

CodeKit

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CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. ...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Ugorji Nwoke: Dev Tool for GO AppEngine

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Alternative development runtime/SDK for Go App Engine that relies less on the Python SDK.

Responsive IMGs

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Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 on images delivered using the HTML IMG tag that come from different sources depending the screen size. See als...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

UILayer

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UILayer provides a JavaScript API on top of WebKit for working with the concept of layers. Instead of manipulating DOM elements using a myri...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

glfx.js

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Adjust photos in your browser in realtime with glfx.js, an image effects library powered by WebGL. It uses your graphics card for image effe...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

ProdEagle - Welcome

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ProdEagle allows you to monitor your (App Engine) web applications in real-time using beautiful graphs and alerts without harming the perfor...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Workshop / Chrome Experiments

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dat.GUI : A lightweight graphical user interface for changing variables in JavaScript. Rather than modify variables manually in your code, ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Border Transition Effects

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Bootstrap, from Twitter

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Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, fo...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

TameJS

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Tame (or "TameJs") is an extension to JavaScript, written in JavaScript, that makes event programming easier to write, read, and e...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Glyphish

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Icons for mobile apps

NounProject

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The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share ...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Performance Data from our Fieldrunners WebGL Demo

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Using custom events in Google Analytics to gather client-side performance data.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

nowjs for Node

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Directly call remote functions in Javascript: NowJS creates a magic namespace 'now', accessible by server and client. Functions and ...
Monday, July 18, 2011

SceneJS - WebGL Scene Graph Library

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SceneJS is an open source 3D engine for JavaScript which provides a JSON-based API for defining and manipulating 3D scenes on WebGL.
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Cocos2D JavaScript

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Cocos2d-javascript is a 2D game/graphics engine based on cocos2d-iphone but designed to run in the web browser. It uses the latest features...
Monday, July 11, 2011

NClosure

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Server-side Google Closure with Node.js. A fork of node-goog (which seems dormant).
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Google App Engine Mini Profiler

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gae_mini_profiler is a quick drop-in WSGI app that provides ubiquitous profiling of your existing GAE projects. It exposes both RPC statisti...
Friday, June 24, 2011

SocketStream

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SocketStream is a new full stack web framework built around the Single-page Application paradigm. It embraces websockets, in-memory datastor...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Perceptual Image Difference Utility

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PerceptualDiff is an image comparison utility that makes use of a computational model of the human visual system to compare two images.
Monday, June 6, 2011

Sitebricks

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Sitebricks is a simple set of libraries for web applications. Sitebricks focuses on early error detection, low-footprint code, and fast deve...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

Apache Lucy

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Apache Lucy is full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages. It is a 'loose C' port of Apache Luce...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

youtube-dl

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Small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites.

jiminoc/goose - GitHub

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HTML content/article extractor
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Scrollability

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Native scrolling for mobile web apps... or at least the closest thing to it! Scrollability is a single script, it's small, and it has no...

The Dynamics of Scrolling | MacResearch

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"This got me wondering how difficult it would be to reproduce Apple’s momentum scrolling on your own in JavaScript. Is the reason no we...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Google App Engine Blog: Introducing ProtoRPC for writing App Engine Web Services in Python

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ProtoRPC makes it easy to write consistent, reliable web interfaces that can be used, for example, to do the following: Create AJAX URL e...

MTR

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mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool. As mtr starts, ...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Crafty - JavaScript Game Engine

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A lightweight, modular JavaScript game engine to easily produce high quality games. Includes a large variety of components such as animation...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

MaxSquare: a fast and simple algorithm for maximizing photo thumbnail sizes

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MaxSquare is an algorithm which calculates the optimal grid size for a collection of n images such that each image is allocated the largest ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Coded Exposure Photography (Flutter Shutter Deblur, SIGGRAPH 2006)

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In a conventional single-exposure photograph, moving objects or moving cameras cause motion blur. The exposure time defines a temporal box f...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Remote git diffs with bbdiff

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See previous post about key exchange. Add the following to .gitconfig : [diff] tool = "bbdiff" [difftool] prompt = fal...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Google Application Utilities for Python

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Same set of utilities used to build and run internal Python apps at Google: Simple application startup integrated with python-gflags . S...
Friday, March 25, 2011

xStats

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xStats provides simple charts to help monitor your code performance. FPS: Frames rendered per second. The higher the number the better. ...

Editing files remotely

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See previous post about key exchange and get_source_machine Install FUSE and SSHFS . Ideally, mount the remote directories you're in...

Growl notifications from other machines

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Install growlnotify Set up public keys so that the other machine can SSH into the Mac without prompting Add the following to .bashrc : ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Using the Google V8 Javascript Engine in Java

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V8 Java Bridge that allows any JavaScript code to run and call back to any provided Java methods.
Monday, March 14, 2011

JVM Crash in Development App Engine server after Mac OS X Java SE 6 Update 4

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Restoring the previous JDK (from Time Machine) to /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.3.jdk and pointing Eclipse at it worked fo...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Backbone.js

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Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with ...

Underscore.js

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Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Proto...

CoffeeScript

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CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has ...
Friday, March 11, 2011

d3.js

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D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a triv...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

iOS UI Patterns

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Monday, March 7, 2011

Chef - Opscode

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Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
Thursday, March 3, 2011

boilerpipe

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The boilerpipe library provides algorithms to detect and remove the surplus 'clutter' (boilerplate, templates) around the main textu...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

visionmedia/express - GitHub

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Fast (and small) server-side JavaScript web development framework built on node and Connect.
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Varnish: Notes from the Architect

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"I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occatio...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Watir

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"Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests th...

Graphite - Enterprise Scalable Realtime Graphing

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Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. As a user, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you...
Friday, February 4, 2011

ack 1.94 -- better than grep, a source code search tool for programmers

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"ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code."

Unicode code converter

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Convert input text to various representations and escaping levels. Also related: Text Escaping and Unescaping in JavaScript .
Friday, January 21, 2011

List of JavasScript Game Engines

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List of JS Game Engines (community effort) : javascript
Sunday, January 16, 2011

sam-mccall/node-plate

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Syntactic sugar for running async functions in sequence. Also Do .
Friday, December 31, 2010

web-page-replay

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"Record web pages using a local DNS and a local web server which act as proxies and records performance metrics in addition to the actu...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Node Inspector

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dannycoates/node-inspector - GitHub : "Node Inspector is a debugger interface for nodeJS using the WebKit Web Inspector."
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Introducing Knockout, a UI library for JavaScript

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Knockout is a JavaScript library that makes it easier to create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML, using observers...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

CSS Timing Bookmarklet

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This bookmarklet loads this script which uses querySelectorAll on all the selectors in loaded stylesheets and then sorts their eval time.
Thursday, November 25, 2010

DNode

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substack's dnode at master - GitHub : "DNode lets you expose a JavaScript function so that it can be called from another machine us...
Monday, November 15, 2010

creationix's step

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A simple control-flow library for node.JS that makes parallel execution, serial execution, and error handling painless.
Monday, July 5, 2010

JSRegexTeststand v2

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Simple single-page app that assists in dynamically developing and testing JavaScript regular expressions. Think of it as a REPL for JavaScri...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

jsctags

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ctags-compatible code indexing solution for JavaScript
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float

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Awesome concise explanation of CSS positioning

Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python

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WebKit Internals

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WebKit Page Cache I – The Basics WebKit Page Cache II – The unload Event Ruby Rendering in WebKit How WebKit Loads a Web Page

Twurl

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curl-like tool for the Twitter API And oacurl is a more general OAuth curl-like tool

Bit.ly command line fu

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Akihabara

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Set of libraries, tools and presets to create pixelated indie-style 8/16-bit era games in Javascript.
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Node.js

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Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Jetty

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http://codeshal.tumblr.com/post/203700970/jetty-embedded-mode http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Tutorial/Embedding_Jetty http://wiki.eclipse.o...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Easy Performance Profiling with Appstats

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Easy Performance Profiling with Appstats
Monday, March 29, 2010

App Engine JavaScript SDK

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"App Engine for JavaScript! With App Engine, you can build web applications using the JavaScript programming language, and take advanta...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Recipe: CloudKit

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" CloudKit is Jon Crosby’s neato web app that vends schemaless-but-versioned JSON objects via a RESTful web API."

objectify-appengine - Project Hosting on Google Code

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"Objectify-Appengine provides the thinnest convenient layer which addresses these issues, yet preserves the elegance of get, put, delet...

MongoDB

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JSON key-value store
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Using a Caching Proxy Server for Web Demos

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Simple python caching proxy server: run your test once against the proxy server in 'record' mode, and then after that you can use th...

Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

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Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

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Alternative Mercurial guide.
Friday, March 19, 2010

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

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For when I want to actually learn a DVCS: Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Gecko Memory Profiler

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Add-on appears to be stuck at Firefox 3.5-only though. Labs/Memory Profiler - MozillaWiki : "Memory Profiler is an experimental Labs...