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Landing Gear
Landing Gear is a responsive HTML5 construction set designed specifically for building single-page landing pages. It has a simple drag-and-drop editing interface, automated color-matching between site theme colors and photographs, and even features like animations, parallax, and transitions.
Landing Gear
The CSS Will-change Property
Currently, when you perform certain CSS operations (like transforms and animations) on an element, the element and its contents might seem to flicker as they are drawn onto the screen layer-by-layer. Now, however, the will-change property means that you can tell the browser about the element’s changes ahead of time. This way, the browser has some time to prepare for these changes, so when they do occur, the element’s layer will be ready and the function can be performed smoothly.
Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property
Lyric
Lyric is a “smart thermostat” similar to Nest. It does boast a few features that Nest is missing, however. For starters, Lyric includes a feature called “geofencing,” which detects whether you’re at home or out based on your smartphone’s location, and regulates the temperature accordingly. It also allows you to control the humidity in your house, sends you alerts and reminders, and has a motion-sensing display.
30 Incorrectly Used Words
Jeff Haden’s recent Time article goes over 15 pairs of easily-confused words (e.g. affect and effect) that you don’t want to get wrong in the business world. The list includes some common errors (your vs. you’re) as well as some mistakes that you don’t think about or use as frequently, like discreet vs. discrete, and number vs. amount.
30 Incorrectly Used Words That Can Make You Look Horrible
Lumo Lift
Lumo Lift is a small wearable device that tracks your daily activity and helps you improve your posture. It measures how many steps you take a day, how many calories you burn, and how much time you spend standing or sitting with good posture. Lumo Lift also vibrates if you do slouch, sending you reminders to keep your posture straight and tall.
Forge
Forge is an instant PHP platform on the cloud of your choice (these choices include Linode, DigitalOcean, AWS, and Rackspace). It’s a way to host sites on a consistent, predictable, and flexible environment. Forge is reasonably priced, too: for a flat rate of $10/month, developers get unlimited servers, sites, and deployments via Forge.
Docker 1.0
Docker is an open platform developers can use to build, ship, and run applications. The very first version came out over a year ago–in March of 2013. Now, after millions of downloads and thousands of beta Docker apps, Docker 1.0 is finally out. It’s a great tool to use for distributing/collaborating on an app with a team, and for managing an infrastructure.
Lifetramp
Lifetramp is a site designed to help people find and explore their passions. The site will ask you what your interests are as you set up your profile. Then it matches you with mentors who can spend an hour or two with you, talking about their take on that industry and what you can do to excel.
AppSignal
AppSignal is an online tool that can provide detailed monitoring services for anyone with a Rails application. It offers features like error and performance issue alerts, deployment tracking, and background job monitoring.
Type Sample
Type Sample is a tool for identifying and sampling webfonts. You simply add the Type Sample bookmarklet to your browser, then click that button anytime you’re on a page where there’s a font you want to identify. Then you hover over any text on the page and Type Sample tells you the name, size, and weight of the font.