Interesting Snippets from 2015-05-22

• The Psychology of UX

  10 Things to About Human Psychology That Should Inform UX Design

• Architecting Websites For The HTTP/2 Era

  The arrival of HTTP/2 will require a bit of re-thinking how we handle websites (and webservers). This makes it a good time to reflect on what those changes can bring. This post is based entirely on theory (the HTTP2 spec), as HTTP/2 is hard to test today. Major browsers support HTTP/2, but very little servers do. And often, it's unclear which draft of the HTTP/2 spec they do support.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-05-05

• Vorlon.JS

  An open source, extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remotely debugging and testing your JavaScript. Powered by node.js and socket.io.

• timothycrosley/jiphy · GitHub

  Write your client side code in a Jiphy! Jiphy is a two-way Python->JavaScript converter. It's not meant to create runnable Python code from complex JavaScript files, or runnable JavaScript from complex Python projects. Instead, Jiphy enables Python programmers to more easily write JavaScript code by allowing them to use more familiar syntax, and even JavaScript developers to more easily write Python code.

• torodb/torodb · GitHub

  ToroDB is an open source, document-oriented, JSON database that runs on top of PostgreSQL. JSON documents are stored relationally, not as a blob/jsonb. This leads to significant storage and I/O savings. It speaks natively the MongoDB protocol, meaning that it can be used with any mongo-compatible client.

• The Workingest Boys - WSJ

  The Wright brothers worked together, ate their meals together, kept a joint bank account and even, according to Wilbur, ‘thought together.’

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