Tasty Links #4

The past weeks, I came across some fascinating articles and videos, so I thought I'd share those with you. Grab a cup of your favorite hot beverage and enjoy!

• Check out flexbox in 5 minutes for an interactive introduction and overview.
• The authors of the Tower app wrote about app design for macOS Yosemite.
• "Imagine everyone's naked" is terrible advice! Better tips for public speaking.
• Check out these katas for learning ECMAScript 2015, one feature at a time.
• Saying hi to the coolest kid in school is just like the TCP protocol. Seriously!
• Want to use Git with Node? NodeGit provides asynchronous bindings to libgit2.
• Elon Musk is one of a kind and might just be the world's raddest man.
• Justine Musk describes what it takes to be as successful as her ex-husband.
• The Ionic framework for developing hybrid HTML5 apps has reached v1.0.
• Especially with programming language features, less is more most of the time.
• I literally couldn't stop laughing at Everyone's Upstairs Neighbors. Chapeau!
• Anders Hejlsberg is on the changelog podcast to talk about TypeScript and its future.
• Enough with the salts! Read about how to securely hash and store passwords.
• This little snippet detects whether the running JavaScript code has been minified.
• Sometimes, we need to stop using the shiny new things and love MySQL.
• Slightly vulgar, but useful: thef*ck corrects your previous console command.
• Haven't you always wanted to spice up all "scroll to top" links with elevator music?
• If you haven't done so yet, give Visual Studio Code a spin. It's a great text editor!
• ECMAScript 2015 adds a lot of useful features, especially for libraries like Lodash.
• Are you into little brain teasers? Then go ahead and try to find Cheryl's birthday.