Weekly Watercooler #108

4K news this week

The Web Chefs published some great posts this week:

• Todd shared takeaways from his recent sabbatical in his recent HuffPo column piece — Pruning the Oak Tree: How My Sabbatical Benefitted Everyone.
• Ian reached out to friends, colleagues, and mentors and asked them, “What’s your advice to those who want to get started in {open source} web development?“. Check out the responses if you’re looking for inspiration or know someone who’s asking similar questions.
• Taylor wrote an excellent tutorial on the proper use of CSS’s :nth-child and :nth-of-type selectors. See, you do need to use Algebra in real life, and yes you’ll need to show your work.

We also held our monthly 4K Labs, a show-and-tell event where the Web Chefs show what they’ve been working on in their spare time.

• Peter gave a presentation on some build and deploy scripts he’s been writing for Drupal projects. Check out the code on Github.
• Patrick gave an introduction to building applications in Meteor using a boilerplate he created and open-sourced. Check out the slides, too!
• Taylor shared his talk — an introduction to the Singularity grid system — which he previously presented at November’s ATX Sass meetup.

Around the watercooler

• Styleguides.io is a great collection of resources and examples for web style guides (it’s open-source too!)
• A designer’s Sublime Text setup
• Instagram stars had their inflated egos bruised when the service purged millions of spam bots this week, thus killing their inflated follower counts.
• And finally, fallout from the Sony hacks hit close to home this week when Austin’s cinema-hero Alamo Drafthouse set out to show Team America in response to the cancellation of The Interview, only to have Paramount cancel those screenings as well.