So much for blogging regularly, eh? Here, let’s try this again…

PhoneGap & Cordova

• Important if you are using Crosswalk in your projects: Crosswalk 23 to be the last Crosswalk release
  • I wish the developers well and can’t wait to see what they do next.
• A fond farewell to the Crosswalk project (Jesse MacFadyen)

• PhoneGap’s commitment to Apache Cordova: Our continued Commitment (Jesse MacFadyen)

• PhoneGap Day EU 2017 — Last year’s PGDay EU was a blast, and I’m looking forward to this one (I’ll be presenting again — Yay!). Hope to see you there!

• Apache Cordova: the Road to Committership — A fantastic blog post by Audrey So. If you haven’t read it yet, read it now!

• Using Framework7? Like Vue.js? Check out Devgirl Weblog’s post: PhoneGap Apps with Vue.js? Yes please

• Releases:

  • [email protected]: https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2017/02/13/cordova-windows-5.0.0.html
  • [email protected]: https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2017/01/27/android-612.html
  • Tools release: https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/01/23/tools-release.html

JavaScript

• opentype.js — If you’re into typography like I am, well, this is awesome. Can parse, modify, and write OpenType and TrueType fonts. How cool is that?

• Be sure to read this if you’re using Webpack: webpack2 and beyond

• And if you’re using SystemJS: SystemJS 0.20 — Aligning with browser modules

• Achieving 60 FPS Mobile Animations with CSS3 via Mobile Web Weekly #145

• I’ve been looking into the Web Audio API, and this library looks particularly interesting: Tone.js

Programming

• Introducing The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming journal

Presentation tools

• Looks promising in the future: DevDecks
• I’ve been having a blast using (and hacking on) this one: Marp

Art

• Use 375,000 images from the Met however you want, for free — Careful — you might end up lost in the collection!