Happy Easter everyone! It was a slow week for me and thus it’s the shortest list since starting the Weekly Recap series, I apologise. Nevertheless, enjoy the links and don’t forget so spend some time with your family. Cheers!

• CSSconf EU 2014
  After the huge success last year, the CSSconf EU is coming back this year. I hope to be there this year.

• gulp – The vision, history, and future of the project
  Interesting background information on gulp.js.

• Picturefill
  Picturefill Version 2 (Alpha) with native picture element support by Scott Jehl is here.

• WordPress 3.9 “Smith”
  Version 3.9 of WordPress was released this week. It features easier image upload and editing and much more. I use it on this blog since it’s early alpha and recommend you update you blog, too.

• Hassle Free Responsive Images for WordPress
  Interesting and well done solution but I’m hesitant to using it because if one would ever disable this plugin, all the shortcodes and therefore all images won’t work anymore.

• IcoMoon
  If you work with icon fonts, this is THE web app for you. I use it all the time to create custom icon fonts.

It’s already sunday again, so here I am bringing you a bunch of hot links gathered over the past week. It’s a nice mix of technical posts and articles about meta topics concerning developers.

• Your Home Town Needs You
  Maybe Silicon Valley or Brooklyn doesn’t need another you. Maybe you even like your home town.

• Scroll performance / behavior in Atom Editor
  If you are, like me, having trouble with the very fast scrolling in Atom Editor this hack can temporarily fix this for you. I hope they’ll implement some kind of option or just make it behave like all the other apps.

• Dream on
  Mark Otto explains why Frameworks are not to blame for the problems of modern designers and developers.

• Pesticide
  Having trouble debugging your CSS layout? This little tool could help you.

• How To Be A Great Developer
  Very good advice.

• Fox fox’s sake!
  Christian Heilmann about what it’s like to work at Mozilla. Sounds like an awesome place to be.

• TouchyJS
  If you are doing a lot of work with touch events, this small jQuery plugin might save your day.

• Rethinking What We Mean by ‘Mobile Web’
  Whether you use a browser or an app. It’s all the web. Very good article by John Gruber.

• Ethan Marcotte on how responsive web design came about
  A conversation with Ethan Marcotte about responsive design and his career.

• Unleash the force of html5 apps – or why html5 apps aren’t that bad.
  Good article summarizing the differences between HTML5 and native apps. I have to agree but I don’t think that is example app at the end is particularly good. Or at least it has a lot of little nuances that I think are distracting and don’t have to be there – or shouldn’t be there.

• Twitter rolls out new facebook-like profiles

Here, have a few examples of Twitter's new web profiles: https://t.co/awV2NLZrsM https://t.co/fYkexzCp2c https://t.co/DsUZ4jr1FL

— Marcel Wichmann (@UARRR) April 8, 2014

Hello lovely readers. This week was a busy one for me so I didn’t manage to read a lot and thus the list is a little shorter than in the past. But there are still very good articles in here. Have fun!

• Bringing Responsive Images to Browsers
  We did it, we as a community funded the implementation of picture into blink and webkit.

• How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago
  Very good and interesting long form article on how Gmail came to be.

• List of Pseudo-Elements to Style Form Controls
  The kind of article that one should bookmark and be happy about when the time comes.

• The Values of the Web
  An ode to the web community by Brad Frost.

• CSS performance revisited: selectors, bloat and expensive styles
  A lot of insights into modern CSS performance.

• visibility: visible undoes visibility: hidden
  Interesting find by Jake Archibald.

• Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
  Shortly after becoming CEO, Brendan Eich steps down due to all the things surrounding him supporting an anti-gay marriage campaign financially in the past.

• Atom Editor Package: Mobile Preview
  This package shows a mobile preview right inside of Atom. I had trouble making the refresh work properly, but it’s a great addition to Atom if it works.

• Workspiration
  If you the kind of person who likes to read about how and with what hard- and software others work, this is for you. It’s kinda like The Setup.

Hello everybody! It’s sunday again and this means it’s time for some link tips for you guys. A lot of good stuff this week. Let’s do this:

• A Q&A on the Picture Element
  Read this to get an insight on the progress of the picture element implementation. Very interesting.

• WTF, HTML and CSS?
  A list of commonly frustrating HTML and CSS quandaries, miscues, and dilemmas. Curated by Mark Otto.

• Spring Editor Upgrades!
  CodePen updated their editor. Read about the changes and additions here.

• Choose tools you’ll use
  Short but important advice. Learn the basics first and then move on to tools.

• How to go freelance
  A guide and a lot of tips on how to go freelance.

• Our Enclosed Space
  Very important piece stating that and explaining why the gap between the “thought leaders” of the web and the reality of people doing great work for clients on often extremely limited budgets widens.

• Shop Talk Show Special: One on One with a Hacker
  Chris Coyier interviews the guys who hacked CSS-Tricks. This is a weird, interesting and awesome podcast episode. And it shows what a great guys Chris is. Must-Listen.

• 2014 State of Element Queries
  Tab Atkins summarizes the state of Element Queries and presents some ideas on how to make them work. (His site seems to offline as of publishing this article, but I hope it’s back up soon.)

• Device State Detection with CSS Media Queries and JavaScript
  Brilliant system by David Walsh. I’ll definitely consider using that in one of my next projects.

• Readmill Team gets acqui-hired by Dropbox
  Another Social Reading service gone. I’m likewise happy for the guys and sad because of losing the service/product.

Biggest news this week was probably GitHub working on a new text editor. The Atom Editor is currently in invite-only Beta. More on that one soon. Until then, have a nice sunday and enjoy the links.

• Sharing Podcasts
  Dave Rupert explains what the Podcasting Community might need to advance.

• Retrieve Twitter and Facebook Counts with JSONP
  A simple and easy to use solution by David Walsh for showing Twitter and Facebook Counts without their official Buttons.

• Posting Code Blocks on a WordPress Site
  Chris Coyier walks you through everything you need to know about blogging about code with WordPress. Highly recommended.

• Getting started with CSS sourcemaps and in-browser Sass editing
  This week I played around with Sass Sourcemaps and Chrome Workspaces and for some time only worked in Chrome. Editing, viewing, inspecting, saving, everything. No editor needed. It was pretty awesome and I’m curious to see where this is going. As far as I know Firefox also implemented Workspaces in a beta release.

• Introducing Atom
  Big News this week. GitHub is working on a text editor based on web technologies and they started a invite-only Beta. I managed to get an invite and I like what I see so far.

• Beyond Tellerrand Conference
  An awesome conference happening in May in Düsseldorf, Germany. Check out the speaker lineup and I’m sure you wanna go. I’ll be there and am looking forward to meeting you guys.

Hello fellow Weekly Recappers! This time my list isn’t very long and that isn’t necessarily because there hasn’t been published much good stuff over the past week. I just didn’t get to read a lot. Nevertheless, I think what I gathered for you is pretty good. Enjoy!

• Printing The Web
  This article by Hans Christian Reinl is not the newest but it nicely summarizes what is possible with CSS regarding printed output. It was really helpful to me this week.

• The web is the platform (or, the perils of esoteric setups)
  Not about development, but a good article on the topic of the web as a platform.

• Sublime Package Control
  Sometimes it’s nice to just browse the popular and trending sections to find new and interesting Sublime Text Packages. My newest addition: SideBarEnhancements

• Task Runners and Builders: Just Because You Can Does That Mean You Should?
  Hilarious. With a hint of truth.

• Making remote teams work
  Mandy Brown explains how remote teams can work best and why they might be superior to on-site teams.

• The Practice App
  A simple web app that suggests HTML, CSS and Javascript tasks to do and practice your skills.

• Mobile Menu AB Tested: Hamburger Not the Best Choice?
  Turns out, a simple Hamburger menu icon might not be the best solution. But have a look for yourself.

This week the links are all on very different topics. Hope you like it.

• A simple guide to responsive design.
  You are just getting started with responsive design and want an easy to understand introduction to some basic coding principles? Here you go, this is for you.

• InstantClick
  This Javascript library preloads links you are about to click, more precisely when you hover over a link. There are even options for only preloading on mouse down so you don’t have to waste requests and still get a small performance boost. This is a pretty clever idea which will makes your site feel faster even if it isn’t.

• Sublime Text Setup
  A simple starting guide to Sublime Text by Dave Rupert. Also lots of recommendations and tips in the comments.

• Mediocre ideas, showing up, and persistence.
  Although this article by Chris Coyier is from last year, it’s good to revisit it once in a while. Now is this time.

• Protecting Against Link Rot While Embracing the Future
  Making sure embedded content will always be accessible even if a service closes is a pretty good idea. Here is how you can do it with embedded CodePens. Even though we all hope we will never be without CodePen.

• Parent selector: On has() and ^
  Hugo Giraudel explains the two possible syntax options for the upcoming CSS parent selector. I’m with him, by the way.

• Multiple Simultaneous Ajax Requests (with one callback) in jQuery
  I’m still relatively new to Javascript, or jQuery, compared to HTML and CSS and am learning so much with every article I read on the topic. If you read this one, make also sure to read the comments, they provide an even simpler solution for the explained problem.

• Harry Roberts on big CSS, working for Sky, and being a home bird
  Nice, short interview with Harry Roberts. Worth a read.

This week I’ve got a lot of links to share with you. So let’s get started:

• As CNN mobile traffic hits 40%, editor calls web vs. apps debate ‘red herring’
  While the mobile web visitor numbers of CNN grow they decide to equally push their mobile website as well as their apps. Read about why they decide to do so.

• Sky parental controls break jQuery website
  A good reason for hosting jQuery or something similar yourself instead of relying on an external service like code.jquery.com.

• BBC News Responsive Beta
  This is a link to a responsive Beta theme of the BBC News. Looks pretty awesome.

• net awards 2014
  The voting is now open until March, 24th. Awesome people to vote for.

• IE and Chrome usage over time
  What a beautiful chart. Look at IE8.

• “Just”
  Brad Frost makes you think about the little word “Just”. Highly recommended read.

• What’s with putting the CSS in the head?
  Interesting article that advocates putting CSS in the head instead of storing it in a separate file. He makes convincing arguments. We just need a simple way to automate the transition from developing in separate files to including the CSS in the head in the final production site.

• Things I’ve Learned On Planet Earth
  Not development related but nevertheless a great list by Daniel Eden.

• Understanding the GitHub Workflow
  This is a nice and easy to understand explanation of how the GitHub Workflow works.

• YOU MIGHT NOT NEED JQUERY
  If you want to try staying away from jQuery and write pure Javascript, this site might help you. Related:

You might not need images. That's what is weighing down the average web page – not JS libraries.

— Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) January 31, 2014

• The first year as a themeforest author
  Very interesting article on selling themes on ThemeForest. Sounds fun, even though the earnings aren’t that much, considering they need to suffice for two people.

Hello and welcome to another Weekly Recap. This week is a nice mix of CSS, Javascript and general topics. Let’s dive in:

• Responsive Javascript
  Most of us know a lot more about responsive CSS than about responsive Javascript. So go ahead and have a look at this one-pager that answers questions like „What is Responsive Javascript?“ and „What are the Browser APIs?“.

• Use zero-width spaces to stop annoying Twitter users
  Harry Roberts has a simple trick for you how to write @import or other @-statements in tweets without mentioning users.

• CSS animation-fill-mode
  I recently searched for exactly that: Being able to stop an animation at 100% and don’t have it going back to 0%. Works in IE10 and newer and all the cool kids on the block. I also created a CodePen.

• Adaptive Backgrounds
  Cool jQuery plugin that extracts dominant colors from images and applies them to their parent elements.

• Single Line Comments (//) in CSS
  I’m writing CSS on a daily basis for years now and I wasn’t aware of CSS not really supporting single line comments. Probably because it always worked for me because I either didn’t minify my CSS in the past or Sass is now doing some magic for me which allows me to use single line comments. Either way, necessary read.

• DevSwag
  Need some new webdev related stickers or T-Shirts? Here you go.

• 30 years of Macintosh
  On Friday, January 24th 2013, the Macintosh turned 30. This is the video and page Apple put together to celebrate. Well done.

• Sitespeed.io
  This is an awesome tool to analyze your sites performance and get helpful tips how to improve it. You need to handle it via the command line but it’s really worth to learn it.

Hello and welcome to the second Weekly Recap. I like the format and from what I’ve heard, you like it too. So here we go.

• Vertical align anything with just 3 lines of CSS
  What was a real pain the ass in the past is now pretty easy. Awesome tip by Sebastian Ekström, which I already used in production.

• How fast is fast enough?
  »It depends«, says Tim Kadlec.

• Mac OSX Screensaver Clock
  Not exactly a Web Development topic, but I just wanted to share this really awesome looking Mac OSX Screensaver Clock with you. It’s made by Robert Padbury, a former Designer at Apple.

• Web Performance Waterfalls from 10.000 feet
  Patrick Meenan shows common patterns of waterfall charts and explains what they mean and how to solve the problems. An article to bookmark for reference.

• Official port of Bootstrap to Sass
  If you want to use Bootstrap and are a Sass instead of a LESS user, this is for you.

• JavaScript: The Right Way
  Javascript is a very flexible language and you can do with it, but you can also do very bad and trash the performance of your website. This is a nice guide to bring you on the right track.