Changelog

Have you ever seen a rad D3 visualization and wondered what the data that created it looks like in its raw form? You're in luck! D3 Deconstructor, a Chrome extension from UC Berkeley's VisLab, does exactly that.

Purplecoat.js is a cool little JavaScript library from Elle Kasai (her first JS project) that lets you create labeled overlays that can be triggered with a click. Why might you want to do this, you ask? In Elle's case, she demonstrates the editable sections of her Jekyll theme with it.

CSS Dig gives you a new way to analyze your CSS (using Google Chrome). Consolidate, refactor, and gawk at the 37 shades of blue your site somehow ended up with. CSS Dig is a Chrome Extension that looks for stylesheets and style blocks on the webpage it's run against and groups declarations together for easy inspection. For example, you can see how many colors are used and how often. This can help you consolidate your styles and help with refactors. The homepage is helpful to get started, but the code is on GitHub.

Does Addy Osmani's new command line tool to compare the image weight of your pages with others on the web have a great name, or the greatest name?

If you're a 1Password user and a terminal (iTerm 2) junkie, sudolikeaboss might just make your day. Check it out in action:

Speaking of PostgreSQL, ToroDB is a JSON database that runs on top of Postgres. 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. MongoDB client compatibility. Smart. Still early days, though: ToroDB follows a RERO (Release Early, Release Often) policy. Current version is considered a "developer preview" and hence is not suitable for production use. However, any feedback, contributions, help and/or patches are very welcome.

PostgreSQL is — hands-down — my favorite persistence engine. However, it has long lacked the tooling of its alternatives. Tools like pgweb are changing that story. This is a web-based browser for PostgreSQL database server. It's written in Go and works on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows machines... This project is an attempt to create a very simple and portable application to work with PostgreSQL databases.

ProgressBar.js is yet another JS lib that makes good use of SVG: With ProgressBar.js, it's easy to create arbitrary shaped progress bars. This library provides a few built‑in shapes like Line, Circle and Square but you can also create your own progress bars with Illustrator or any vector graphic editor.

The list of languages that compile to JavaScript just keeps growing. This time around Go gets the treatment with GopherJS. In case you are wondering: yes, you can even bring your Goroutines along for the ride. Give it a Go (spluh!) on the GopherJS Playground.

Pageres is an Awesome CLI (and JS API) from Sindre Sorhus & Kevin Mårtensson that captures screenshots of websites at different resolutions. Looks like a great way to make sure your site is adequately responsive. Check it.

Want to quickly analyze your website's asset loading performance? Add PerfMap to Chrome's bookmarks bar, load up your site, and trigger the bookmarklet to see a heat map similar to the one below:

Great idea and solid execution on a less intrusive responsive Lightbox: Strip is a Lightbox that only partially covers the page. This makes it less intrusive and leaves room to interact with the page on larger screens while giving smaller mobile devices the classic Lightbox experience. Check out the demos on the Strip homepage to see what the buzz is all about.

SweetAlert is an easy way to turn those boring, built-in browser alert() and confirm() dialogs into something much shinier and user-friendly. Check out more of what SweetAlert has to offer on the Demo Page.

If you think building your email templates with Mustache and Stylus sounds cool, check out Gleemail. It'll inline CSS styles for you, send test emails, export templates to MailChimp/Eloqua/etc, and much more.

Go Package Store is a web app that displays updates for the Go packages in your GOPATH replete with changelogs and update buttons.