Elevenses #19
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News & Opinion
- What happens when packages go bad?
- GitHub announces unlimited prive repositories - big, big news (well, for me)
- One Planet York: Data Breach Update via RapidSpike - how not to handle a security report …
- Building Your Color Palette
Development
- Visual Studio - What’s New in Visual Studio 2019
- Staticman: Static sites with superpowers - Give your static github/jekyll blog dynamic data … kinda
- Polyfill.io - Get only the polyfills you need
- CheatSheets collection - Markdown one is worth a look alone
- CheatSheets collection for Google Cloud
- Amazon makes its machine learning courses available for free
- Building C# 8.0 via .NET Blog
- Introducing GitHub Actions via CSS-Tricks
- Guess.js - machine learning driven libraries for the web
- Marko
- Handling Time Zones in JavaScript
- Bracket Pair Colorizer for VS Code May be useful if you’re ReactJs kind of developer …
SQL
- dbatools – best practices and instance - *Collection of Powershell MSSQL scripts *
Cloud
JavaScript / Angular2+ / Ionic2+ / ReactJS
- Why Facebook’s api starts with a for loop
- Building Interactive Lists with Angular Material (drag ‘n’ drop)
- JAMstack - JavaScript, APIs, and Markup - this weeks new framework - if you’re using a CMS, it’s an architecture worth looking at - imho
- Angular #7 - new features
- Avoiding subscription memory leaks in Angular
- Angular inline template support in VS Code If you use Angular, you want this!
- Ionic 4 - Ionic for everyone Now built with web components, available to all JS frameworks (kinda) …
Libraries / Plugins / Components
Data / APIs
- Google+ based authentication deprecation- Does your website use Google+ for authentication?
- Paul Miller — Using dark mode in CSS
UI & UX
- A look at the recent CSS-Tricks redesign
- CSS Only Floated Labels with :placeholder-sho - Interesting, but lacking in browser support :sad:
Tools
- Remove Background from Image – remove.bg
- Fancy Border Radius Generator
- Duotone - Create beautifully toned images
- Google Earth Studio - create animated Google Earth fly-through type-stuff
- Microsoft moves to Chromium for Edge
- Squoosh - Very nice web app for compressing images, showing live comparison, and output to a variety of formats
- Analyse your HTTP response headers
- Snibox - Self-hosted snippet manager
- Content Security Policy generator via Mozilla Labs
- ImgBot · GitHub Marketplace - GitHub app that optimises images and send a pull request
- AngularDoc for Visual Studio Code - Visual
Pingdom
With Pingdom closing it’s free plan I’ve been looking at alternative providers, which I thought were worth sharing:
For reference, I’m trying StatusCake out. Only been using it for a few days, but looking good so far.
Testing
Performance
Security
- Don’t fall victim to the Chromecast hackers
- Secure your .NET Core codebase
- AJAX Security Cheat Sheet via OWASP
- SQLite creator fires back at Tencent’s
- Google Maps scammers put their own phone numbers onto bank listings
Misc
- One year countdown before Windows 7 is out of support
- Nick Craver - Stack Overflow: How We Do Monitoring
- Sharing Github projects just got easier!
Social / Fun / Cool
- Chuck Norris - Google Search
- Twine - Open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories- Charlie Brooker used it to create the Bandersnatch episode of Black Mirror
- Killed by Google - Google Graveyard -
Funky code things
- SVG Filters 101 via Codrops
- Footer with CSS Grid
- Crossy Road with three.js - Frogger … in a pen … kinda
- Flame in the wind
- One div flame 🔥
- Guitar Strings
- Sky scene
- CodePen - flashlight 🔦 effect at haunted house
- CSS Only Floated Labels with :placeholder-sho - Interesting, but lacking in browser support :sad:
- CodePen - Pure CSS Moustached Nanny
Lifestyle
- Gladys - Your home assistant - Open source Raspberry Pi home automation
- Crash Magazine Archive : Free Texts :
- CRASH 4 - Index
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