Monthly Mentions: May 2015

Monthly Mentions

May 2015

Tesla Powerwall: A home battery that charges from solar panels or when utility rates are low.
Friends Chat: Chat app like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source.
restifydb: Expose your databases as REST web services.
HTML Arrows: HTML symbol codes and entities.
smartflower POP: All-in-one solar panels/system.
Leesa: Another online mattress manufacturer and retailer.
Brooklinen: Bed sheets and comforters without the middlemen.
Quark Shell for Mac: Create cross-platform menubar/tray apps using only HTML and JavaScript.
Sass Burger: A Sass mixin for creating hamburger icons.
Font Library: Open source project to organize Google Fonts.
Redacted: Mac app to hide sensitive details of an image.
Plein air à la carte: Travel guide for outdoor activities in Quebec.
BaliseQc: The reference for hiking in Quebec.
Clean Ride Mapper: Informing cyclists on Air Quality in Montreal.
Ember Hearth: Mac application to manage and run Ember projects.
Helium: A floating browser window for OS X — to watch media while you work.
C.H.I.P.: A $9 computer with 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB storage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Otium SoftRack: Foam-based car rack for hauling gear on your roof.
Tapiriik: Sync your fitness activities between various apps.
Ledger: A command-line accounting system.
The American Longbow: Beautiful handmade longbow from Best Made Company.
Grid by Example: Examples of the CSS Grid Layout Module. By Rachel Andrew.
One Sweet App: iPhone app to discover how much sugar is in the foods you eat.
Lily: Camera drone that you simply throw in the air to start shooting.
TripMode: OS X app that controls which apps have access to your Internet connection.
Justice.js: Embeddable script for displaying web page performance metrics.
Bone.io: A lightweight framework for building realtime HTML5 apps using websockets.
Nuts.com: Bulk & wholesale nuts, dried fruits, etc.
acl9: A role-based authorization gem with a concise DSL for securing Rails apps.
wego: A weather client for the terminal.
Hullo Pillow: Organic & All-natural buckwheat pillow.
ReadRemaining.js: jQuery plugin that approximates how long to read any text.
Keating Woodworks: Beautiful handmade furniture by Geoffrey Keating.
ScrollWatch: Add dynamic interaction based on scroll position.
Shuffle: Disposable phone numbers and email aliases.
Mark Boardman Illustration: Great illustrations by Mark Boardman.
Oru Kayak: Kayak that folds down into an easily storable case.
Lotus: An object-oriented web framework for Ruby.
Thousand Helmets: Nice looking bicycle helmets.
Yandex.Browser: New browser focused on privacy by Russia’s most popular search engine, Yandex.
Anyenv: Version manager — like rbenv — but for anything.
wrk: A command line HTTP benchmarking tool.
The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 3.0: PDF with up-to-date information on SEO.
Whois: A pure Ruby Whois client and parser.
Viewport.js: Reports the viewport scrolling position relative to sections.
Torba: A Ruby asset manager for Sprockets.
Solved by Flexbox: Showcases various layouts using Flexbox.
Spina: Open source CMS for Ruby on Rails.
Saw & Mitre Frame Co.: Great frames for your photographs.
Fruixi: Montreal mobile market for fruits & vegetables.
Bexar Goods Co.: Makers of durable leather bags and accessories.
Airdesk: Rent desk space by the hour without reservations.
cssnext: A CSS transpiler to use the latest CSS syntax today.
Rocket.Chat: Open source chat platform. Developed with Meteor.
ruby-patterns: Examples of patterns in Ruby.
Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools: Information about the developer tools in modern browsers.
Ajax-Include: Load snippets of HTML after the critical path.