September 2016

firstround.com

Noah Weiss of Slack on designing and timing mobile push notifications so they stay useful instead of eroding user trust.

a16z.com

How startup equity works — cap tables, financing rounds, dilution and liquidation preferences — and what each does to the value of employee options.

github.com

Frontend framework for building browser admin applications on top of REST services, using ES6, React and Material UI.

tonyhb.gitbooks.io

GitBook documenting the Redux patterns and conventions used to build applications at Docker, Inc.

github.com

FSA-compliant promise middleware for Redux, dispatching a promise's resolved value as the action payload.

eloquentjavascript.net

Marijn Haverbeke's book on JavaScript and programming, readable free online with in-browser exercises and a code sandbox.

material.google.com

Material Design's colour system — picking primary and secondary colours with light and dark variants, and applying them to signal hierarchy and interactivity.

github.com

Screenshot web service built on Express and PhantomJS, taking viewport and user-agent parameters over HTTP; archived read-only since 2018.

foundation.zurb.com

Gallery of eleven customisable responsive HTML email templates from Foundation for Emails.

tedgoas.github.io

Cerberus — a small set of solid, reusable patterns for responsive and accessible HTML email that survive almost every email client.

github.com

Python wrapper around curl that visualises where an HTTP request spends its time — DNS, TCP, TLS, server processing and content transfer.

foundation.zurb.com

ZURB's framework for building responsive HTML emails that render consistently across the major email clients and devices.

searchengineland.com

Search Engine Land's guide to search engine optimization, covering how search engines work, ranking factors, and the on-page, technical and off-page sides of the practice.

dataquest.io

Tutorial building a live Twitter stream consumer in Python with tweepy, storing tweets in a database and running basic sentiment analysis on them.

blog.ladder.io

Five steps for validating a business idea — customer interviews, strategy mapping, landing pages and paid experiments — before leaving your job.

banque-info.com

How a banker reads a company balance sheet, and which economic and financial signals decide creditworthiness.

plantuml.com

Open-source tool that renders UML and several non-UML diagram types from a plain-text description language.

martinfowler.com

Martin Fowler's write-up of Leonard Richardson's four levels of REST maturity, from plain HTTP tunnelling through resources and verbs up to hypermedia controls.

github.com

Interactive command-line HTTP client with autocomplete and syntax highlighting, built on HTTPie and prompt_toolkit.

a16z.com

Glossary of venture capital economics — limited partners, carried interest, the J-curve, clawbacks — and how a fund's returns get distributed.