Double Shot #1896
- How the Web Became Unreadable - The trend towards stupidly-light gray text is just the most recent step in a journey that started with Windows. Well, that's my theory, anyhow.
- The year of poop on the desktop - Introducing the Poop Separated Values (PSV) format, a crazy idea that just might be...no, wait, it's just crazy.
- Zen Rails Development Environment - A quick way to spin up a new box with Vagrant, VirtualBox and Ubuntu with some development tools & shortcuts preconfigured.
- LiveStyle - Automatically refresh a browser with the latest changes to your CSS. Lots of tools do that, what this one adds is that changes made in the browser's tools can be automatically synced back to your editor.
- High-performance webpack config for front-end delivery - If you know what you're doing, you can make webpack 3 put your JS through some impressive hoops.
- The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs - Being a person who routinely has a few hundred tabs open, I'm pleased to see the performance work in this area.
- Upgrading Shopify to Rails 5.0 - How to upgrade a million lines of Rails code on a running application. Amazing.
- Elixir 1.5.0 - ...is now released. A writeup of the changed.