This is a great way to organise code snippets—listed by use case, and searchable too!
Next time you’re stuck on some DOM scripting, before reaching for a framework or library, check here first.
Google’s pissing over HTML again, but for once, it’s not by making up rel values:
A new way to help limit which part of a page is eligible to be shown as a snippet is the “
data-nosnippet” HTML attribute onspan,div, andsectionelements.
This is a direct contradiction of how data-* attributes are intended to be used:
…these attributes are intended for use by the site’s own scripts, and are not a generic extension mechanism for publicly-usable metadata.
At Clearleft, we’re always saying “Everything is a tiny lesson!”, so I love, love, love this bit of Manuel’s website where notes down short code snippets of little things he learns.
If you really, really have to add Google Analytics to a sites, here’s a way to do it in a more performant way, without the odious Google Tag Manager.
A tiny snippet of JavaScript for making an animation of a talking emoji face.
A social network for snippets of JavaScript effects in canvas, written in 140 characters or fewer. Impressive!
Some more useful snippets of JavaScript. The functions and helpers are particularly handy if you’re weaning yourself off jQuery.
One of many code-snippet sharing sites out there but this one has some nice features like tagging and popularity. The interface is yuck though. dpaste,com is nicer but more ephemeral.