Interesting Snippets from 2016-01-04

• From the Ground Up: Reasoning About Distributed Systems in the Real World – Brave New Geek

  Distributed systems literature is abundant, but as a practitioner, I often find it difficult to know where to start or how to synthesize this knowledge without a more formal background. This is a non-academic’s attempt to provide a line of thought for rationalizing design decisions. This piece doesn’t necessarily contribute any new ideas but rather tries to provide a holistic framework by studying some influential existing ones.

• The Website Obesity Crisis

  Let me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps. This talk isn't about any of those. It's about mostly-text sites that, for unfathomable reasons, are growing bigger with every passing year.

• Split.js

  Split.js is a lightweight, unopinionated utility for creating adjustable split views or panes.

• A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial) - JavaScript | MDN

  Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript is notorious for being the world's most misunderstood programming language. It is often derided as being a toy but, beneath its layer of deceptive simplicity, powerful language features await.

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