Date: 21 July 2015 (If you are reading it on any other date then everything below is outdated) Good news everyone: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/07/20/announcing-typescript-1-5.aspx Changes to note: 1. ES6 module syntax. It is official and will be with us in the following years: // math.ts export function add(x, y) { return x + y } export function…

WebStorm is great for front end development, I use it every day. I tried Sublime, VIM and even Visual Studio Code but none of them made me as productive as WebStorm does. But one thing in WebStorm puts me off. Is its support for Stylus.

04.05.20015 Good news, everybody, Microsoft has released a technical preview of Windows that works on Raspberry Pi 2. Luckily I have an 8 inch Windows tablet with Atom processor, that I can use for experiments with Microsoft tech, because you need a physical device running a latest version of Windows…

photo by https://unsplash.com/joshuaearle Update (2018) It’s been a few years since I wrote this tool and since then it has been superseded by Yarn and offline mirror feature. …

I just wonder who infected designers with the idea that clicking is hard? Who came up with the idea that hovering a menu or a button is an improved user experience? How far from real users should you be to design a menu popping down when user hovers a button? …

Damn, and I was doing bloody Medium code blocks with CMD + ALT + 6 which is a huge pain. var a = 1;

Looks like we are witnessing a new way of delivery of styles for the web content. At least for the Single Page Applications. https://github.com/jsstyles/jss JSS by Oleg Slobodskoi Dynamic stylesheets for web components.slides.com A slightly more complicated but in a way similar approach is taken by React developers: https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js It is not the first one I’ve heard of and…

http://www.copyright-free-images.com/full-image/space-copyright-free-images/hurricane-from-space-satellite.jpg-royalty-free-stock-photograph.html Imagine a situation when a picky designer wants to use a fancy font for a banner or a promo page. It is a one time job and you don’t expect this fancy font to be used again.

Update January 2015: Web is moving too fast and anything you read below may be (is) obsolete or common knowledge. There is a relatively new module/bundling system for the Web called webpack http://webpack.github.io/. The most useful feature is how easy it is to not only refer modules of your JavaScript…