Google Preparing Big Optimizations For Chrome 53, 47% Improvement On Motion Mark By WebKit

Chrome 53, due for stable release in September, is going to see some big optimization work; there's up to 47% improvement across the board, mostly due to GPU raster, CSS and WebGL optimizations on OS X, resulting in percentages that are multiple times better than Chrome 51, the current stable release.

Safari 10.0

An overview of new features introduced in versions of Safari.

npms

npms was built to empower the javascript community by providing a better and open source search for node modules.

Scality S3

S3 server implementation in Node.JS

gulp-standard-tasks

gulp-tasks is a opinionated set of tasks that can be registered with gulp to quickly enable building of static assets

Making your JavaScript Pure

Apply the principles of purely functional languages to your JavaScript to gain more reliable, self-documenting codebases.

Serverless Data Sync in Web Apps with Bit Torrent

Serverless Data Sync in Web Apps with Bit Torrent - Tales of a Developer Advocate

7 PostCSS Plugins to Ease You into PostCSS

Are you confused by PostCSS? Are you worried about complicating your build process? Don't be - Craig reveals how and why you should use it.

Form Validation UX in HTML and CSS

You can do and impressive amount of form validation with just HTML attributes. You can make the user experience pretty clean and clear with CSS selectors.

Pixel Density, Demystified

How pixel density works and how it affects your designs.

Enhancing Optimistically

Every so often, we come across ways to improve our more well-trodden core progressive enhancement patterns. Sometimes, we'll utilize a new web standard to address problems we'd previously approached in a less-optimized manner, while other times we'll make adjustments to address browser-or-network conditions that could be handled in more fault-tolerant ways.

How three dots changed JavaScript: spread operator and rest parameter

Spread operator and rest parameter are great additions. The article explains how they improve array literals, array destruction and function arguments handling.

JavaScript Object Creation: Patterns and Best Practices

Jeff Mott guides you through a step-by-step approach to JavaScript object creation—from object literals, through factory functions, ending with ES6 classes.

How Emoji Can Improve Your Code—Seriously

Who doesn’t love emoji? We, as developers, routinely look at large amounts of text—whether it’s code, production logs, commit messages, documentation, or whatever—and emoji inherently stand out in what is normally a wall of text.

Thank you, jQuery

The JavaScript library that led the way.

We Reward the Wrong Things

As an industry, in general we praise sites that look good, maybe with nifty animations, cool hover effects, and the mythical 60fps golden standard. That is all nonsense. Ego-stroking pointless fluff.

Node.js Examples - How Enterprises use Node in 2016

This article summarizes the best examples of Node.js usage based on the experiences of GoDaddy, Netflix and Capital One.

Fluid Particles

Fluid simulation is a GPU implementation of the FLIP method (with various additions). Particle rendering uses spherical ambient occlusion volumes.

Xchars.js

What is the smallest subset of characters than can be used to execute any JavaScript code?