A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
node-notifier-cli$ notify -t “Hello” -m “My Message” -s –open http://github.com $ notify -t “Agent Coulson” –icon https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/master/example/coulson.jpg $ notify -m “My Message” -s Glass $ echo “My Message” | notify -t “Hello” Installation per NPM/Yarn: yarn global add node-notifier-cli TIP: As with many packages you can also run it using the aforementioned npx: npx -p …
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In JavaScript, when cloning an object via Object.assign({}, obj) or by destructuring it (e.g.{…obj}, only shallow copies are created. Surma has explored some unusual ways – other than JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj)); to create an actual deep copy: MessageChannel History API Notification API (told you they were unusual ;)) Deep-copying in JavaScript →
Talk by Hannes Van De Vreken, as given at the recent phpCE conference in Poland: Did you know your IoC container can do a whole lot more than just constructor injection? Besides that it is actually packed with features. Inflectors, resolving callbacks, aliasing, method invocation to name a few. In this talk you will learn …
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Yesterday I heard on the news that clocks in Europe have started to lag behind on the official time. The culprit is a fluctuation in Europe’s electricity grid. Clocks, like the ones in your microwave, that are reliant on Grid Time are affected by these fluctuations: Grid Time is a time measurement which is based …
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Whilst checking out the aforementioned IMcD23/TabView and a few other iOS/macOS libraries I could not help by notice the lack of CocoaPods and the presense of Carthage. Apparently the community is now leaning more towards the latter. Carthage is intended to be the simplest way to add frameworks to your Cocoa application. Carthage builds your …
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IMcD23/TabView – Easily add multiple tabs to your iOS app, styled similar to Safari for iPad.There are two primary view controllers in this library: TabViewController and TabViewContainerViewController. A TabViewController contains an array of tabs, a visible tab, and some methods to add and remove tabs. A TabViewContainerViewController contains TabViewControllers. IMcD23/TabView (GitHub) → (via Louis D’hauwe)
jest-puppeteerWith jest-puppeteer – and its included expect-puppeteer assertion library – it’s possible to use Puppeteer within your Jest tests. Writing integration test can be done using Puppeteer API but it can be complicated and hard because API is not designed for testing. To make it simpler, an expectPage() is automatically installed and available, it provides …
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