Tvenge Design

1. Supercharge Continuous Delivery in Jenkins with the Workflow Plugin
2. FLIP Your Animations
   A way of checking your animations.
3. The WordPress REST API
4. 3 UX Errors to Avoid When Designing an Unsubscribe Flow
   You need to be very thoughtful with unsubscribe UX, because your user can just mark as spam and you have a whole nother issue.
5. Subtle Click Feedback Effects
   Brilliant as always from Codrops
6. Accessible toggle-style checkbox
7. israelidanny/ie8linter · GitHub
   A little tool to lint websites for IE8 compatibility, with warnings for possible pitfalls and suggested fixes.
8. Why I Don’t Use Compass Anymore
   I’ve moved away from Compass too. Truth be told, I only used it for vendor prefixes and autoprefixer does that (better) now.
9. Responsible Social Share Links — Jonathan Suh
   You’d be surprised what you can do without JS.
10. Frontend.md
    Documents your css and js.
11. The God Login
    All great things you should be doing in a login, some easier than others.
12. Experiment: Using Flexbox Today
13. Inline SVG with Grunticon Fallback
14. The 15 Commandments of Front-End Performance
15. RSCSS – Reasonable Standard* for CSS Stylesheet Structure.
16. Making a Single Page App Without a Framework
    Funny, as @GarthDB points out: “Making a Single Page App without a framework” “we will be using the jquery *library*”
17. Bouncy Navigation | Codyhouse
    Just one of those cool effects for a navigation overlay.
18. html5-boilerplate/CHANGELOG.md at v5.0.0
    Lotsa things have changed in the boilerplate.
19. Ol’ John Henry
    The idea of machines taking over our jobs has been on my mind for some time. Well put by Dave Rupert.
20. Combining Underscores With Bootstrap to Create a Theme Framework: Introducing Bootstrap
    Combining things I love and things I don’t.
21. What No One Tells You About Working From Home
22. Document Object Model
    Understanding the Document Object Model is integral to JavaScript and even css & html. Looking back, it really wasn’t until browser dev tools came out that it clicked with me.
23. Client-side MVC’s major bug

Some great stuff this week. A huge win for Net Neutrality and IE in the process of being sun-setted.

1. RodriguezCommaJ – Author Template
   This email template gives you a reset of sorts that looks good. It is $10, but worth it’s weight in gold if you’ve ever created an html email.
2. Transitioning to SCSS at Scale
3. Benchmarks: Internet Explorer 11 vs. Spartan vs. Google Chrome 40 vs. Firefox 35
   “Spartan (IE Experimental) offers a significant boost compared to IE11 although it was still not enough to beat Google Chrome 40 or Firefox 35 in some of the benchmarks.”
4. A Linux Developer’s Setup
   Working on a Unix-based system is key for a Web Developer IMO. Most of the points he makes in here apply to OS X as well, but as he points out, Linux has upsides to OS X. If Apple ever does anything to really make me mad, it’s comforting to know Linux will always be there to save me.
5. Grunticon
   Why have I not used this before? One of the keys to a lightweight page is using SVG’s for images (when possible). Grunticon just makes it easier.
6. Microsoft’s touch-friendly Office shows great potential for Windows 10 apps
   Microsoft really needed a touch-friendly overhaul to Office.
7. 11 Reasons to Care About Mobile Performance in 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
8. Net neutrality wins: the FCC will propose strong Title II regulation
9. This site shows how speed and efficiency should be done
10. Style Guide Generator Roundup
    I love styleguides, but by it’s nature of being a fairly new idea, it’s constantly changing.
11. 7 simple rules for mobile typography
12. jQuery event trigger namespace
    Clever
13. The Long Web – An Event Apart Video with Jeremy Keith
14. You can copy() from the console
    Cool!
15. Introducing the Codrops CSS Reference
16. Google Now takes a bite out of your privacy
    What’s new?
17. Getting Started with the WordPress Theme Customization API
    IMHO: The only way to add theme options to a WordPress theme.
18. Screencast: Building Smarter UI Interactions using :checked
    He does some pretty cool things to get this to work in pure css. He’s also using VIM mode ins Sublime Text, so that’s kinda cool to watch too.
19. What Makes Ecommerce Design Different?
20. Inside Microsoft’s New Rendering Engine For The “Project Spartan”
21. 10 free WordPress plugins for February 2015
    Lots of gems in here. I’m really digging the Post Type Requirements Checklist plugin.
22. Web publishers can delete stuff from archive.org
23. What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd? | TED.com
24. Examples of Animation in Web Design
    …and they aren’t just there for animation’s sake.
25. Chrome continues to fall apart at brisk pace
26. Microsoft to support Raspberry Pi 2 with a free version of Windows 10
    Hmm, cheap IE testing machine?
27. Optimizing Your Images for WordPress
    Optimization is something I love to do. There are some great tools in here including EWWW Image Optimizer. Every WordPress site should have that installed.
28. The best of January’s web design podcasts
    Some great picks
29. Optimizing Your Workflow
    I do like finding ways to streamline workflows on my computer. Be sure not to get too carried away. I spent about 2 hours on Monday creating shortcuts for Alfred Remote, which I haven’t really used all week. :/

Another week, another article roundup! I’ve been very intrigued with this debate over front-end MVC’s such as Angular, Ember.js and Backbone. You may see an uptick in articles about this subject over the next few weeks.

As always, if you have any feedback on Article Roundups, leave a comment. Thanks for reading!

1. AOL is shutting down its Apple blog TUAW
   As The Verge says “There goes another one.”
2. Simple CSS-Only Row and Column Highlighting
   clever trick!
3. Extensibility
   Jeremy on Web Components. I find myself aligning with his opinions.
4. Your favourite app isn’t native
5. Adobe is suing Forever 21 for pirating Photoshop
   duh. If you are a big company, spend $50/month.
6. 1 out of 6 internet users in the US don’t have broadband access
7. iPhone Screenshot Maker
   I’ve been looking for an iPhone screenshot tool for some time. This one adds a nice iPhone frame around your screenshot.
8. WordPress Theme Creation With Underscores – Tuts+ Course
   This is the defacto “blank theme” for developing WordPress themes from scratch. It’s in Tuts+, but they offer a 30 day free trial.
9. Introducing CockpitCMS – a CMS for Developers
10. @extend Wrapper a.k.a Mixtend
    interesting technique
11. Hobo for Mac – The best way to manage Vagrant and vagrantfiles on your Mac
    This is really dead simple. Easy enough where you could pass this VM onto a PM or Designer with no issues. One thing I’m not sure about is how you keep your WordPress code updated for those users.
12. How you can help to improve WordPress
13. YouTube drops Flash for HTML5 video as default
    Yah, standards!
14. Updates for the F12 developer tools in the Windows 10 January Technical Preview
    Some updates to the ever-improving F12 Tools in IE.
15. Microsoft reveals its Internet Explorer successor will support extensions
    Kinda have to these days.
16. My thoughts on Squarespace (and other site builders)
    ICYMI
17. Fun with line-height!
    Vertical rhythm is something I have really taken to, and line-height is fundimental to it.
18. CSS Level 4 Selectors to Watch Out For
19. The ultimate guide to SVG
    SVG is IE9 plus and polyfills are pretty easy. If you aren’t, you really need to be using SVG. No need for responsive images.
20. 5 Beautiful and Responsive Footer Templates
21. illustrator-svg-exporter · GitHub
    Exporting SVG’s in Illustrator kinda sucks.
22. Facebook’s new app for developing countries is just 252KB
    #optimization
23. Visiting an Angular site with Opera Mini.