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Furtive CSS For the Win
I’ve found Furtive CSS really useful for my side-projects. Although it offers few components, its clarity is straightforward. Every width, height, etc is defined in rem. So, by updating the <html> element’s font-size, everything resizes perfectly on the fly. On one of my last projects (which is an UI for my WordPress.com-based site) I hadContinue reading “Furtive CSS For the Win”
Sagrada Familia – 2026
It seems to me the only explanation for new towers hiding existing beautiful towers is that Gaudí thought of building it with a Continuous Integration approach. The whole building is beautiful and functional (sunlight everywhere inside) on each stage even when it’s unfinished.
Markdeep
http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ For writing text that will look good in any web browser. It supports diagrams, common styling conventions, and equations as extensions of Markdown syntax.
How to modularize a socket.io intensive app using middleware
… so this is that post for modularizing apps that rely largely on socket.io events. This is for the ones that believe on the single-reponsibility principle and don’t find an example for this when trying to fit socket.io in an app that starts demanding some structure. tl;dr You can create socket.io middleware functions and exportContinue reading “How to modularize a socket.io intensive app using middleware”
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npm packages for accessing properties of objects using dot-path notation
Two alternatives to accessing properties of objects using dot-path notation. Access properties of nested objects using dot-path notation https://github.com/deoxxa/dotty 15 forks. 121 stars. 13 open issues. Recent commits: Docs: Update examples with expected output, Michael Stramel Update License for GitHub, Michael Stramel 0.1.0, Stramel Add NPM version badge, Michael Stramel 0.0.3, Michael Stramel and https://www.npmjs.com/package/mpath
https github com zapty forever service Amazing And…
Provision node script as a service via forever, allowing it to automatically start on boot, working across various Linux distros and OS https://github.com/zapty/forever-service 53 forks. 560 stars. 39 open issues. Recent commits: Update README.md, GitHub Fix for foreverpath, Thanks to @brokenmass., Arvind Agarwal Merge pull request #64 from brokenmass/foreverpath-fixAllowing use of –foreverPath option even ifContinue reading “https github com zapty forever service Amazing And…”
OSGeo
I’m happy today because I was nominated yesterday as an OSGeo chart member by mmiranda and Jeff McKenna. Two great open source geo developers and advocates from the OSGeo Foundation. I’m glad to be part of the supporting community for this foundation. The nomination per-se is not a big deal. I won’t have too muchContinue reading “OSGeo”
Three usage scenarios with browserify
Some prior words on browserify debug mode First of all, remember that browserify will, by default function in debug mode. That is why the first time you try browserify you’ll see a lot of gibberish characters appended to the browserified file. Every scenario described here, has its own way of disabling the debugging (i.e. disabling sourceContinue reading “Three usage scenarios with browserify”