magnASCII.dev Simone Magnaschi
Senior Full Stack Web Dev

How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

This Daily Mail piece by David Derbyshire is so profound it has been cited over and over: How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Four Generations: an interview with four generations of the same family about how far they were allowed to wander as kids. It comes from Britain but will sound familiar to
Saved on: 2017-02-02

CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square. | Web | Google

CSS Grid is a new layout system for the web.
Tags: #css #webdev
Saved on: 2017-02-01

Etsy Engineering | How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern

In April of 2016 Etsy launched Pattern, a new product that gives Etsy sellers the ability to create their own hosted e-commerce...
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Saved on: 2017-02-01

Guided meditation for beginners (for free) from QuietKit

Learn to decrease stress and increase focus with our simple guided meditation for beginners (for free).
Tags: #health #tools
Saved on: 2017-01-31

Front-end Developer Handbook 2017 · GitBook

Forget building and maintaining your own custom docs platform. With GitBook you get beautiful documentation for your users, and a branch-based Git workflow your team will love.
Saved on: 2017-01-31

CRAFT: Create React App From Template – Medium

CRAFT (Create React App From Template) is a command-line utility that helps you get started with your new React app using a starting point of your liking: one you created yourself or maybe one…
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A 6 minute Intro to AI | Snips

A 6 minute Intro to AI
Saved on: 2017-01-27

Progressive Web Apps with Angular 2

Progressive Web Applications have been the talk of the town in the past few months. In short, they use modern web capabilities to provide a user experience similar to that of mobile apps. Still a r...
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Blog

Saved on: 2017-01-18

The tech of PIXAR part 1: Piper – daring to be different | fxguide

In the run up to the Oscar Short film nominations, we invited guest writer Leif Pedersen to deep dive into the tech of Pixar's Piper.
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Saved on: 2017-01-18

Introduction

If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!
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Saved on: 2017-01-16

What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage

It's not about suspense; it's about survival.
Tags: #read-later
Saved on: 2017-01-15

Secure Headers for PHP

Recently I've been working on a drop in class to manage certain "Secure Headers" in PHP.
Saved on: 2017-01-08

I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life

It’s time to reexamine the cultural and legal restrictions we put on medical marijuana.
Tags: #read-later
Saved on: 2017-01-08

Andrew W.K. on Growth - VICE

In ways both real and imagined, how you see the world colors what you see in the world.
Tags: #read-later
Saved on: 2017-01-05

The Isdalen mystery - Dokumentar

A woman lies dead and severely burned in a scree slope outside the centre of Bergen. All clues to who she might be, have been removed. No one has made any progress in this case – until now.
Tags: #read-later
Saved on: 2017-01-03

PhospheneFX – Phosphene is a New York-based independent design and visual e

Phosphene® is a New York-based, award winning, independent design and visual effects studio.
Tags: #webdesign
Saved on: 2017-01-03

10 Useful Sar (Sysstat) Examples for UNIX / Linux Performance Monitoring

Using sar you can monitor performance of various Linux subsystems (CPU, Memory, I/O..) in real time. Using sar, you can also collect all performance data on an on-going basis, store them, and do historical analysis to identify bottlenecks. Sar is part of the sysstat package. This article explains how to install and con
Tags: #linux #server
Saved on: 2017-01-03

Twagios 2.0 – Nagios notifications revisited – EdVoncken.NET

In a previous blog post, I described how to use Twitter for Nagios notifications – dubbing it “Twagios”.
Saved on: 2017-01-02

CodePen - Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator

A quick way to sketch out musical chord progressions. uses my [Scale Generator](http://codepen.io/jakealbaugh/pen/NrdEYL/) and [Arpeggio Pattern Gener...
Saved on: 2016-12-29

Programming (mental) models

Terminology like this is sprinkled throughout programming blog posts, conference talks, papers, and text books. But don’t be turned off by this jargon. Let’s jump right in and break some of these…
Tags: #programming
Saved on: 2016-12-28

Print styles – A List Apart Sidebar – Medium

I really wanted to make sure that the print styles for Resilient Web Design were pretty good — or at least as good as they could be given the everlasting lack of support for many print properties in…
Tags: #css #webdev
Saved on: 2016-12-28

What to learn in 2017 if you’re a frontend developer – Medium

This post is a mix of my experience and my wishes for the New Year. I want to hear your suggestions as much I want share mine.
Tags: #books #webdev
Saved on: 2016-12-28

Learning Machine Learning: A beginner's journey

I have been learning about machine learning and deep learning (ML/DL) for the last year. I think ML/DL is here to stay. I don't think th...
Saved on: 2016-12-26

I migliori fumetti del 2016 - Francesco Boille - Internazionale

Gipi, Daniel Clowes, Jiro Taniguchi, Davide Reviati e Martoz. I cinque migliori albi a fumetti dell’anno e qualche escluso illustre. Leggi
Saved on: 2016-12-25

8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year

Update (December 2016): Version 2 of this guide is now available! Announcement post here. Links in this post are updated to send you to the latest and greatest version. Click here to download 8,760 Hours v2  The end of a year […]
Saved on: 2016-12-25

A practical introduction to functional programming

Many functional programming articles teach abstract functional techniques. That is, composition, pipelining, higher order functions. This one is different. I...
Saved on: 2016-12-25

Principles by Ray Dalio

Principles: Life & Work by Ray Dalio now available in hardcover and as an audiobook. Learn more at principles.com
Saved on: 2016-12-23

CSS Writing Modes ◆ 24 ways

Jen Simmons points us in the direction of a useful but less well known CSS feature that becomes increasingly important when designing page layouts for a global audience. Like the wise men following the Star of Bethlehem, sometimes the best direction is given to us, not chosen.
Tags: #css
Saved on: 2016-12-23

Front-End Performance Checklist 2017 (PDF, Apple Pages) – Smashing Magazine

Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist, with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and CSS/JavaScript techniques.
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Saved on: 2016-12-22

Flexbox Froggy - A game for learning CSS flexbox

A game for learning CSS flexbox
Saved on: 2016-12-22

How Xerox Invented the Copier and Artists Pushed It To Its Limits | Atlas O

The Xerox machine was a piece of technology that seemed to come out of nowhere.
Saved on: 2016-12-22

Building Jarvis

Saved on: 2016-12-20

Let Your Whole Family Watch This Internet Security Basics Course

As the holidays get closer, you’re probably going to spend a lot of time with your family, many of whom will get shiny new devices. If they want your
Saved on: 2016-12-19

I thought I was designing for SpaceX, I was actually designing for the Silk

I’ve held this personally close for a long time, to the point where some of my closest friends still aren’t sure whether or not I’m lying or telling the truth. I’m not sure if this will set the…
Tags: #later
Saved on: 2016-12-16

react-md

An accessible React component library styled with Sass/SCSS built to the the foundation for web applications. The default styles are based on material design.
Tags: #react-js
Saved on: 2016-12-16

Website Stalking - Uprising – Treviso JS – Medium

Come probabilmente molti di voi fanno, anche io quando mi imbatto in un sito web che considero d’impatto, non resisto alla tentazione di spulciarne il codice. Mi affascina l’idea di scoprire con…
Saved on: 2016-12-14

Force RGB mode in Mac OS X to fix the picture quality of an external monito

Force RGB mode in Mac OS X to fix the picture quality of an external monitor
Tags: #mac
Saved on: 2016-12-14

Jessica Hische - Client Emails Are Hard.

The portfolio and random thoughts of a crazy cat lady.
Saved on: 2016-12-14

“BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack : Longreads

How Inception changed the way we listen to movies.
Saved on: 2016-12-12

I am not a self-made man.

Saved on: 2016-12-09

On Getting Old(er) in Tech

After years of scoffing at talk of prejudice in the information technology field -- as a white male with good hair --, I'm starting to call prejudice against my being old(er). It’s true: age discrimination is a real thing.
Saved on: 2016-12-09

A package to fluently generate schema.org markup - murze.be

Schema.org is a vocabulary of microdata markup that aims to make it easer for search crawlers to understand what's on a webpage. The vocabulary is very extensive: here's the official list of things that can be described with Schema.org. This article on Tutsplus explains schema.org and structured…
Tags: #libraries
Saved on: 2016-12-09

Gomix

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Saved on: 2016-12-07

Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.
Saved on: 2016-12-06

Growing a Business Website: Fix the Basics First

Clear content, simple navigation, and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.
Saved on: 2016-12-06

Opulence | PHP Framework

A simple, secure, and scalable MVC framework for PHP 7
Saved on: 2016-12-06

My Favorite Books of 2016

Saved on: 2016-12-06

htop explained | peteris.rocks

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux
Saved on: 2016-12-02

How to Hide $400 Million - The New York Times

When a wealthy businessman set out to divorce his wife, their fortune vanished. The quest to find it would reveal the depths of an offshore financial system bigger than the U.S. economy.
Saved on: 2016-12-02

Setting Up and Deploying a Modern PHP Application - via @codeship | via @co

Master PHP application deployment with our comprehensive guide. Implement modern tools and best practices for scalable, efficient web apps today!
Saved on: 2016-12-01

Logojoy | Make a Logo Design Online

The easiest free logo maker and logo generator. The most 5-star reviews of any logo maker. Trusted by 20M+ businesses. Make your logo now!
Tags: #tools
Saved on: 2016-11-30

React Native Express

The all-in-one guide to React Native
Saved on: 2016-11-29

CyberChef

The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis
Saved on: 2016-11-28

Top Books on Amazon Based on Number of HN Users Linking them in Comments

This visualization shows the top 29 books ranked by the number of unique users linking to corresponding Amazon pages in Hacker News comments from Oct 2006 to Oct 2015.
Saved on: 2016-11-26

CSS Reference - A free visual guide to the most popular CSS properties.

CSS Reference is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.
Saved on: 2016-11-25

Material Design Lite

A front-end template that helps you build fast, modern mobile web apps.
Saved on: 2016-11-24

Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2016

Articles on frontend development and more.
Saved on: 2016-11-23

How to Solve It - Wikipedia

Saved on: 2016-11-23

Miyazaki Tribute - blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Ope

Read on Dono's experience using Blender to make this beautiful tribute to Hayao Miyazaki.
Saved on: 2016-11-19

Monitoring Processes with Supervisord - Servers for Hackers

Process monitoring is important to keep your applications alive after restart or error. Find out how to use the ultra-popular Supervisord.
Tags: #server
Saved on: 2016-11-17

FotoScan

Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future. Scan and save your favorite printed photos with the PhotoScan app from Google Photos.
Saved on: 2016-11-16

A pattern for Continuously Deployed, Immutable and Stateful applications on

If you are faced with the challenge of running a stateful application on AWS, you will recognize that many building blocks no...
Tags: #aws #webdev
Saved on: 2016-11-15

JS NICE: Statistical renaming, Type inference and Deobfuscation

JS NICE | Software Reliability Lab in ETH
Tags: #tools
Saved on: 2016-11-15
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