The best links of 2014
2014 was a really busy year for me, i collected over 850 bookmarks worth mentioning, and i curated that list over 8 hours to get the most valuable links for the last year.
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Front end development
Large scale javascript development
50+ Awesome Free Tools For Web Developers
bleacon — A node.js library for creating, discovering, and configuring iBeacons
10 Things You Should Know about Tokens
every javascript project you should be looking into
Useful Learning Resources For Web Designers
JavaScript Promises … In Wicked Detail
A compatibility table showing the available default system fonts across different mobile platforms
7 Pattern Libraries That Will Help Improve Your Web Development Skills
A modern JavaScript router in 100 lines
How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers
Effective pull requests and other good practices for teams using github
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
Create useful .gitignore files for your project
Code Guide by @mdo Standards for developing flexible, durable, and sustainable HTML and CSS.
browser specific CSS and JavaScript hacks
Starling — The Cross Platform Game Engine
A collection of my 6 favorite JavaScript one-liners
Pro Git 2nd edition (book)
JavaScript Patterns Collection
The definitive source of the best JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and plugins.
PageSpeed Insights Rules by Google
A List of Foundational JavaScript Tools
Book of Modern frontend tooling
MapStylr is a free online tool that helps you create, store and publish unique google map styles. (service)
Toolboard — The most comprehensive list of Web and Startup Tools (resources)
HTML5 UP makes spiffy HTML5 site templates
Black Tie — Free Handsome Bootstrap Themes
CodeKit helps you build websites faster and better.
The missing font generator for Mac OSX.
Entreprogrammers — The podcast for developreneurs
Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook (video)
App.js — Mobile webapps made easy. (library)
Give your pages some headroom. Hide your header until you need it.
A color generator for JavaScript.
Animate.css — Just-add-water CSS animations
Angular.js : Advanced Design Patterns and Best Practices
Browserify lets you require(‘modules’) in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.
The Friendly & Fun Javascript Fullstack for your next web application
egghead.io — Learn AngularJS with Tutorial Videos & Training
Flux | Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
Exploring canvas drawing techniques
Optimising for 60fps everywhere
Must-watch videos about javascript
“How To Be a Creative Coder Without Losing Your Soul” by Mike Tucker at push.conference 2014
!! A a curated list of curated lists of awesome lists. !!
Fast browser fingerprint library. Written in pure JavaScript, no dependencies.
Learn to build an application using Angular.js
Build Fully Responsive Email In Just Minutes. (free tool)
A new modular browser entirely written in Javascript. Free. Hackable.
Transactional HTML Email Templates
High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS
Download test VMs of IE for OSX, Linux or Windows
Are you bad, good, better or best with Async JS? JS Tutorial: Callbacks, Promises, Generators
A Better Way to Learn AngularJS
PLAYBOOK Written by thoughtbot
A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.
You Don’t Know JS (book series)
UX/UI
Marvel — Free mobile & web prototyping for everyone
scrollReveal.js — Easily reveal elements as they enter the viewport.
Prototyping with Facebook Origami
UX Crash Course: 31 fundamentals
UX Crash Course: User Psychology
Outdated UX Patterns And Alternatives
Pttrns is a curated library of iPhone and iPad user interface patterns.
User Interface Design patterns
A list of Style Guides and UI Guideline
MobileMozaic is a gallery of the very best designed iphone applications
lovely UI — collection of mobile ui elements
Unlock your creativity with free online classes and projects. — Skillshare
A bunch of feedback ideas for your buttons. — UI Feedbacks
Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People (video)
SVG icon font generator — glyphter
Hack design — design lessons for developers
Prototyping 101 — Quartz Composer
Fuel UX extends Bootstrap with additional lightweight JavaScript controls
Fontello — icon fonts generator
The Right Way To Ask Users For iOS Permissions
A simple Photoshop plugin to translate your text layers to a different language.
Learn Quartz Composer &Origami through Video (course)
Sketch 3
Learn iOS design and Xcode. Build a news reader app from Sketch to the App Store.
Framer — Prototype Interaction and Animation
The Ultimate Trends for UI Inspiration: Animated Concepts, Menus, SVG graphics and more
A super simple plugin manager for Sketch.app.
Curated resources for everything creative
User Interface Design patterns
The ultimate guide to email design
sketchdesign.io — master class video tutorials
picjumbo — totally free photos for your commercial & personal works
Carefully Crafted UI Design Assets
Over 200 Sites, Apps & Books Recommended for Any Designer
Prototyping with Facebook Origami
Quartz Composer and Origami tutorial — create a simple button animation
UX Axioms by Erik Dahl (@eadahl)
Daily tips for user experience design, mobile design, and software product design
Curated resources for everything creative
UX How-To with Luke Wroblewski
Design a product that users want
TETHR — The Most Beautiful iOS Design Kit Ever Made — by InVision
Best Free Photos In One Place.
Dark Patterns: fighting user deception worldwide
A library of 206 seminars by experts in all things UX design
Learn User Experience (UX) Design online
Ui Gradients — Beautiful colour gradients
How to design for thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens
Photoshop vs Sketch — Photoshop Secrets
A Guide to Discernible Web Design in Photoshop
Create a landing page for your iPhone app, using the info you’ve already submitted to the App Store
How to give me really useful feedback
Coolors — The super fast color palettes generator!
Enterpreneurship
Sam Altman — Super successful companies
101 Startup Failure Post-Mortems
How to get a busy person to respond to your email
A 3-step process for naming a project/product. (And some resources)
Startup funding : bootstrapping vs fundraising
Idea to Paying Customers in 7 Weeks: How We Did It
App Marketing Tools For Developers — Apptamin
6 Steps to Launch a $1,000,000 Crowdfund
startup{ery gathers and organizes the best resources to help you build your business.
Create your agreements, in multiple languages, in just minutes (service)
Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned (slide)
The Entrepreneur’s Handbook: 101 Resources for First Time Entrepreneurs (resources)
The ideal length for everything on the Internet
How Startup Funding Works Infographic
A Minimal Viable Product that works
A Practical Guide to Web App Success
Curated Content, Events, and Jobs in the App Industry
The Dead Simple Way Google Ventures Unlocks Great Ideas
Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
Using Trello for Agile Software Development: The Complete Guide
Reddit Marketing: The Complete Guide to Using Reddit
How I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident
Startups, this is how design works
List of Resources for YC applicants
Seven lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr
The Ultimate List of Ultimate Marketing Lists
What was your best passive income in 2014?
BlockShelf — Insights for Entrepreneurs | BlockShelf
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Startups List — Collections of the best startups in different places
Gibbon — Playlists for Learning
Save $9, Here Are The TechCrunch Staff’s Email Addresses
100 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Blogging
Other
The smartest way to send your tracks files
Homebrew — The missing package manager for OS X
likeastore.com — social bookmarks and favorites
Compressor.io — optimize and compress your images and photos
Focus — Steal back your productivity
Unforgettable brands 2014 (video)
Hubs
Front-end Front — Basically, front-end news
GrowthHackers — A Community for Growth-Focused Marketers
Back end development
Brad Frost — Atomic Design (video)
HTTP security headers you should always be using
Design and development standards to align and guide your project.
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
Hand picked developer screencasts
15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes (video)
Build podcast — screencasts on tech tools (videos)
Design Patterns Quick Reference
PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server for software developers
Set up your development environment in 30 seconds flat. — bowery
HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
1436 Top Resources for Designers and Developpers — Agile Designers
ack 2.14 is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
What every web developer must know about URL encoding
How Dropbox Uses C++ for Cross-Platform iOS and Android Development
Elasticsearch.org Open Source Distributed Real Time Search
HTTP API design guide extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API
Introducing vtop — A Terminal Activity Monitor in Node.js
Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin — Architecture: The Lost Years (video)
A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
Useful utilities in Unix for developers
Discover tools and frameworks in the DevOps landscape.
Physical Web — Walk up and use anything
How I finally learned to build stuff with Rails
Hacker’s Guide to Setting up Your Mac
IOS Development
Tools of the Trade: iOS Development
75 Essential Tools for iOS Developers
Damn Vulnerable iOS Application (DVIA)
the best place to find objective-c categories
Turn drawings into code with PaintCode 2
Code4App.net : iOS App Development Libraries, Controls, Examples and Tools.
Octave: A free library of UI sounds, handmade for iOS.
100 Great Resources for iOS Developers
Spika is the world’s first open source mobile messenger solution.
100 Great Resources for iOS Developers
Turn drawings into code with PaintCode 2 (tool)
A collection of animation examples for iOS apps.
iOS Hat — turn Photoshop layers into Objective-C or Swift.
An extensible iOS and OS X animation library, useful for physics-based interactions.
The Swift Programming Language book
Weekly bite-sized screencasts on iOS development.
Average App Store Review Times
11 Insanely Great iOS Developers Sites
The talks from UIKonf 2014, in full!
World-Class Command Line Utilities For iOS Development
Common App Rejections — App Store — Apple Developer
Android
Android Development Tips For iOS Devs
Pixl — The new tool in Android Design
The Android Arsenal — A categorized directory of free libraries and tools for Android
