My Macbook Air is about two years old now, and has travelled around the world caked in dust, snow and rain... At full charge it still shows around 14 hours battery life, and easily gets me through a few hours in an airport lounge and an international flight.

My only advice is to monitor (and limit) any battery intensive apps, and to do a clean format and install every twelve months or so.

These pictures of ducks, trees, fences and garbage bins are super helpful to capture that 'black' vibe...

http://beta.blackstockimages.co/collection/category/scenery/http://beta.blackstockimages.co/collection/category/structures/http://beta.blackstockimages.co/collection/category/objects/http://beta.blackstockimages.co/collection/category/creatures/

They're in beta, so I'm willing to cut them a little slack, but I can't help but notice the majority of their photos don't contain anyone of color.

Metalsmith is by far the best I've used.

If you're a javascript dev you'll appreciate it's functional approach. Simply chain 'plugins' together to make your perfect workflow.

http://www.metalsmith.io/

www.7dayabs.com

I gave Scribus a try earlier today but sadly found it pretty clunky.

Fingers crossed Affinity Publisher will finally give us a decent alternative to InDesign.

I didn't see the previous post, but perhaps it was http://niceportfol.io/ ?

• http://daneden.github.io/animate.css/
• http://julian.com/research/velocity/
• http://daniel-lundin.github.io/snabbt.js/
• http://bouncejs.com/
• http://facebook.github.io/rebound-js/docs/rebound.html
• https://visionmedia.github.io/move.js/

I was in your position about five or six years ago.

My advice would be to initially pick one, and focus on building something non-trivial.

My first few years learning back-end code felt really slow. I was watching every online course I could get my hands on, which gave me a good understanding of the fundamentals, but it wasn't until I actually knuckled down and built something real that things started to stick.

Pixelmator supports both pixel and vector.

http://www.pixelmator.com/

I cannot recommend Frontend Masters enough.

https://frontendmasters.com/courses/