Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup --- This is a list of smaller tools that might be useful in building your game/website/interactive project. Although I’ve mostly also included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools & toys that are as fun to use as they are functional. The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.

Darius Kazemi linked to this, and notes: "The only change I had to make was installing `babel-loader@7` and `webpack-cli` as dev dependencies."

Prefixing is one form of “namespacing,” which is just a fancy way of saying that names in this space belong to a specific project. However, prefixing (and suffixing, which is less common) is a hack from a time when no solution existed for the PHP language. PHP 5.3 introduced an official method of namespacing, so the standard has existed for years. Because WordPress 5.2 bumped the minimum PHP requirement to 5.6, it is time for developers to shed their old habits and catch up to the rest of the PHP world.

Discussing the CSS-Tricks article ‘The Great Divide’ (https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/) that discusses the difference between ‘full-stack’ and ‘front-end’ developers. I think my main problem with this article might be that its core premise is accurate -- the job market for frontend developers undervalues skills around markup, a11y, UX -- but it _reinforces_ the divide, rather than challenging it

Some good tips for getting started with Sublime Text 2 and using its many features.

Mixed into a story about the author trying to learn to program.

What we (try to) do at FamilyID.

I'm going to read and internalize all of this one day. Yes I am.

On programming well. Devote time to it, rewrite it completely, work without distraction. Echoes of "Getting Real."