Rodney Rehm

Shell scripts (often referred to bash scripting, even though it's not necessarily bash) are a great way to automate certain things. Every now and then those scripts have to be run with privileges - in order to, say, register a network interface alias or bind a low-port.

We use services like JSBin, JSFiddle, Dabblet and Codepen to quickly make examples and demos available online. We do this to show interactive things on our blogs and to provide a test-case when submitting issues. Some of us even use these services for development. All those services have one problem, though: including JSON files, scripts and resources from Github is not possible out of the box.

The other day I decided it was time to start using viewport relative units - for example height: 100vh;. According to caniuse my all of "targeted browsers" should've worked fine. While The usual suspects - Android Stock Browser and Internet Explorer - behaved formidably, iOS 7 did not.

Sebastian Golasch and I set out to run the Sass compiler in the browser. Why, you ask? because we can! Or, well, we couldn't - and that needed changing. We'd heard about Emscripten, but never really used it.

iScroll, the number one widget for managing scrollable panels, has been available in version 5 since October. This post documents my pain updating to iScroll 5.0.9.