Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
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.
plantuml.com
Open-source tool that renders UML and several non-UML diagram types from a plain-text description language.
banque-info.com
How a banker reads a company balance sheet, and which economic and financial signals decide creditworthiness.
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.
foundation.zurb.com
ZURB's framework for building responsive HTML emails that render consistently across the major email clients and devices.
github.com
Python wrapper around curl that visualises where an HTTP request spends its time — DNS, TCP, TLS, server processing and content transfer.
tedgoas.github.io
Cerberus — a small set of solid, reusable patterns for responsive and accessible HTML email that survive almost every email client.
foundation.zurb.com
Gallery of eleven customisable responsive HTML email templates from Foundation for Emails.
github.com
Screenshot web service built on Express and PhantomJS, taking viewport and user-agent parameters over HTTP; archived read-only since 2018.
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.
eloquentjavascript.net
Marijn Haverbeke's book on JavaScript and programming, readable free online with in-browser exercises and a code sandbox.
github.com
FSA-compliant promise middleware for Redux, dispatching a promise's resolved value as the action payload.
tonyhb.gitbooks.io
GitBook documenting the Redux patterns and conventions used to build applications at Docker, Inc.
github.com
Frontend framework for building browser admin applications on top of REST services, using ES6, React and Material UI.
a16z.com
How startup equity works — cap tables, financing rounds, dilution and liquidation preferences — and what each does to the value of employee options.
infoq.com
Report on the service load balancing added in Docker 1.12, which routes traffic to Swarm service replicas through DNS and IPVS instead of manual container aliases.
