Justin Allen

Download at the Speed of Typing With the cURL Command

Download at the Speed of Typing With the cURL Command

These days starting any front-end tinkering you’re likely to go down a rabbit hole just getting the frameworks set up and included in your HTML file. Do you go with Grunt, Gulp, Bower? How do you just jump in as quickly as possible? Well, nothing’s...

The Vanual

An Online Guide to Vandwelling Freedom The Vanual is a high-design guide to vandwelling freedom. A beautifully rendered, personal ode to life on the American highway and the details that make it possible, designer / digital nomad / filmmaker...

Counting Words With JavaScript

Counting Words With JavaScript

Recently I needed to find a way to count the words in a paragraph and chop it if it’s too long. There’s a quick way to do this in JavaScript using the native split method. Working on the Node.js command line gives you a nice way to see how...

Sounds of Digital Bamako

Wonders From Mali’s MP3 Underground In Mali, there’s a thriving digital music scene based on hand-shared MP3’s, cybercafes where téléchargeurs curate collections and load them onto USB sticks or mobile phones, and street recordings...

WTF Are Canonical URLs?

WTF Are Canonical URLs?

A canonical URL is an exact, specific version of a website’s URL which is picked and deemed to be the authoritative one, so other slightly different versions can be regarded as equivalent.