devd ubersimple command-line HTTP server

Quick testing of web apps.

Cquence for really simple JS animation

Cquence looks useful.

Clappr: open-source media player

Here's a cool thing: Clappr is an open-source pluggable media player for the Web.

Stamplay: back-end development by drag-and-drop

Here we go, folks. The future. High-level descriptive language (visually expressed) for website construction by component. Exactly what I was thinking about three years ago, only done slicker than I would have managed.

Dynatables

Here's a neat jsQuery-based site component: the dynatable.

Tweetylicious

Microblogging in one Mojolicious file.

A useful catalog of easing animations

Easing and bounces in JavaScript - neat!

ionicons

A beautiful icon font.

Negative captcha

A Ruby framework for building forms that are more bot-proof. This is nice from the standpoint of technique.

Random user generator

Randomuser.me gives you a random user profile - "Lorem ipsum for people". (See how this ties back to the contact management thing?)

So here's a semantic pole for ya: people. They just keep coming up all over the place. And they often share a lot of things with one another. So why don't we have a range of tools like this one, for people, for companies, etc.?

Sort of a semantic toolbox kinda thing.

AppScale

An open-source Google Apps alternative. Groovy!

CloudFlare

Another piece on the architecture pile.

CloudFlare, by the way, runs Lua on nginx as their basic architecture - and compiles to Lua for some features. Just all kinds of cool.

Status page hosting

Here's a service that provides status-page hosting for your site.

Bounce rate for blogs

Here's an interesting tip for blogs and other sites where "conversion rate" doesn't really apply: check after a short time to see if the user is still there (using a JS snippet on the page with a timer).

Yet Another Blog Framework

Hexo.  Also Wintersmith. All in all frameworks are thick on the ground these days.

Simple online editor

Nice.  Integrates with Bootstrap.

Discourse: forum software

Discourse is a new open-source forum option.

Paymill

European payment gateway Paymill.

Syte: Personal site boilerplate (kinda)

Syte is a Github project that allows you to customize a few things and have a personal Django-based, mega-socially-interactive Website up on Heroku at breakneck speed.  You just fork it, run it, and customize it with its own tools.

Neat!

Another landing page tester

Here's a code-free landing page builder that gives you the ability to let customers select a pricing model preference during their interest registration.