A javascript regular expression editor.

As a programmer in the U.S. for 30 years now I have spent some of that time working more than 40 hours in a week, which is not all that common in this industry, and when I was salaried I rarely if ever got more pay.

No more, I now find the whole idea nauseating.

Decouple app. architecture w/module,facade & mediator patterns. Mods publish msgs, mediator acts as pub/sub mgr & facade handles security.

Finally, a sweet tool to make a sensible diet plan.

Page for testing responsive sites.

As more of the tools we live with every day become digital instead of physical, our opportunity – and responsibility – as designers is multiplying.

Reading the umpteeth ‘Son, you need to learn to code if you’re going to be a web startup founder’ article I knew it was the first step I had to take. After all, it makes perfect sense right?

Here are thirty five things I’ve learned in thirty five years.

swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters.

Hurl makes HTTP requests.
Enter a URL, set some headers, view the response, then share it with others.
Perfect for demoing and debugging APIs.

Lightview allows you to easily create the most beautiful overlay windows using the jQuery Javascript library.

This boilerplate is the product of much research and frustration. Existing boilerplates exist that modify Backbone core, don't have a build process, or are very prescriptive; this boilerplate changes that.

Fortunately, ECMAScript 5 has gotten plenty of things to move the language in the right way, and it's on those sweet features that this article will expand. I'll also cover the drawbacks of JavaScript's design, and do a little comparison with the classical model here and there, where those would highlight the advantages or disadvantages of the language's implementation of prototypical OO.

A simple online tool that converts static Markdown text files located in your Dropbox, into a beautiful web log.

Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites

Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!

To test your htaccess rewrite rules, simply fill in the url that you're applying the rules to, place the contents of your htaccess on the larger input area and press "Check Now" button.

Ember.js is what happened when SproutCore decided to be less Apple Cocoa and more jQuery. The result is a web framework which retains very important high-level concepts such as observers, bindings and state charts, while delivering a concise API.

This is a document with best practices in Backbone. This is a massive work-in-progress.

Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css.