These small, humane prompts are only going to get more important.

The Burka brothers' unique take on everyone's Hello World app.

Humans need consistency in order to be able follow their second nature habits. When habits or repetitive functions are established, they are effortless.

Chrome has a new animation inspector! Here is a simple gif showing how you can use it.

This newsletter's development section editor was incredibly annoyed by the multitude of lame, handwringing thinkpieces about npm's left_pad debacle and how we must have all forgotten how to program. But this newsletter's development section editor still tips his hat to the troll who wrote is-thirteen in response. Read the source for a good smirk.

Sometimes you need to reference a process but can't because it was started by a Supervisor (or Poolboy). A process registry can help with that.

Finally, the Year of Linux on the Desktop. (This is actually really, really cool. We've linked up the best write-up we found on the subject, from someone with the expertise to tell you how it really works.)

A conversation with Ryan Freitas of Uber: the power of platforms to take opinionated products and distribute them for adoption.