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Book Review: The Hard Thing About Hard Things

I read "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz so you don't have to.

When to Level Up Your JavaScript

Some applications use lots of JavaScript, others not so much. When to add things like testing and an MVC framework are hard choices to make. I'll help you!

How to Work With 3rd Party Developers

Deciding if you want, need, and can afford to hire outside technical help can be a quick decision fueled by a need to firefight, but there are some strategic...

Measuring Technical Success (Is Hard)

Measuring a developer's success is tricky. It's well documented that any kind of performance measuring is ripe for being gamed. What should you do as a manager?

How to Perform a CSS Audit

This audit process assesses how organized the project's CSS is, how up to date the pipeline for evaluating and building it is, and how well structured and di...

Analyze Boulder: CSS Scraping and Analysis

Page Speed Overview Part 3

Page Speed Overview Part 2

Page Speed Overview Part 1

Breaking Websites for Focus and Profit

I made a browser extension that degrades distracting websites the longer you're on them.

Measuring Your Shell History

A quick command line demo that shows you how you have used your shell in the past

Scraping and Analyzing .vimrc Files

.vimrc files are where vimmers keep their configuration settings. While learning vim I thought it would be fun to scrape a few thousand of these from GitHub ...

(Обещают Библиотеки в JavaScript) Promise Libraries in JavaScript

The JavaScript Pyramid: Leveling Up JavaScript

jQueryTO: Widening Your JavaScript Pyramid

Deferreds and You: How To Tame Your Asynchronous Code

I .promise() to show you .when() to use $.Deferreds

Making your zsh prompt awesome

Having an informative prompt makes your time in the shell more productive. I show you how to add battery life to yours.

ASCII Loading Indicators

Some demo loading indicators using just characters to provide the animation effects