What started a short list became quite a big description, more details inside the post.
Best Practices for Building a Microservice Architecture. Looks like a wide set of questions covered.
PHP CLI helper Climate allows you to easily output colored text, special formats, etc.
php-resque PHP port of resque (Workers and Queueing)
Waves JavaScript click effect inspired by Google's Material Design.
Nick's Playbook to Build Apps with PhoneGap and Famo.us by Nicholas Reed - free ebook with series of best practices and patterns for building a PhoneGap application.
Elementary OS Freya Beta 1 released. Really works quite stable (for some internet surfing usage :) ).