A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
A video-version of How tracking pixels work by Vox: In this video, we explain how cookies work and what you should know about how they’re being used. And we get a little help from the man who invented them. Spot on “Finding Dory” analogy. One thing where they do go off a bit is that …
Chrome 80 recently got released, with some nice new features. To me the highlights are: Support for Optional Chaining SVG favicons, which also support prefers-color-scheme BTW New in Chrome 80 → 💁♂️ Also on my list of highlights is Linking to text fragments using a special URL fragment in the form of :~:text=[prefix-,]textStart[,textEnd][,-suffix]. It’s a …
Valeri Karpov on how JSX is transformed into JavaScript: The JSX compiler parses all the element types, props, and children, and passes each of the nodes in the tree through a pragma. The pragma is just a fancy term for the function that JSX calls on each node. In the case of React, React.createElement is …
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Chris White, on creating really fast HTTP requests in PHP, by manually building an HTTP request and sending a payload: Hand-crafting HTTP requests seemed like an unreliable method at first, but after some pretty extensive testing I can vouch for it reliably sending the requests and the remote server receiving them in full. It can …
Mathias Verraes on Technical Debt: The problem isn’t technical debt, it’s unmanaged technical debt. In any company, the CFO knows exactly how much financial debt there is. There are spreadsheets, quarterly reports, payment plans, and options to refinance or sell debt. But ask your CTO how much technical debt your organisation has, and you’ll get …
Nice Star Wars fan film depicting Obi-Wan Kenobi as he lives in seclusion on Tatooine, all whilst keeping an eye out for a young Luke Skywalker who’s living with his aunt and uncle.
Interesting new product (Beta) from the Puppet folks: Project Nebula automates continuous deployment of applications to multiple cloud-native targets. Our objective is to dramatically simplify continuous deployment of cloud native applications and infrastructure by composing the tools and workflows your developers already use into simple, repeatable deployment workflows. Project Nebula →Simplify continuous deployment with Project …
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useEffect(fn, []) is not the new componentDidMount()
Brad Westfall from React Training on why the React hook useEffect(fn, []) is not the same as componentDidMount(): When developers start learning hooks having come from classes, they tend to think “I need to run some code once when we mount, like how componentDidMount() works. Ah, I see that useEffect with an empty dependency array …
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Nice demo/explainer by Louis Hoebregts on how to generate a pattern of Connected Vertices using p5.js 💁♂️ Use the included slider to advance the steps.