This release marks months of hard work for the young, scrappy, and hungry CLI team, and includes some changes we’ve been hoping to do for literally years. npm@5 takes npm a pretty big step forward, significantly improving its performance in almost all common situations, fixing a bunch of old errors due to the architecture, and …
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Learning Music with Ableton
Nice work by the Ableton folks. A website to experiment with beats, melody, harmony, basslines, and song structure: In these lessons, you’ll learn the basics of music making. No prior experience or equipment is required; you’ll do everything right here in your browser. Right here in your browser™ Learning Music with Ableton →
Scaling your Redux App with ducks
It’s one of these things I too keep struggling with from time to time: do you organize your project files per type/functionality, or per feature? Alex Moldovan from FortechRomania: Our approach starts from the need to isolate the React code into a single folder — called views — and the redux code into a separate folder — called redux. Inside the …
Nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.
Max Stoiber, on determining if you’re qualified or not for a specific (frontend) job listing: If you’ve built a side project with React.js and know your way around JavaScript in general, you’re at least as qualified as 90% of all other devs out there. I’ll tell you a secret: Nobody knows what the fuck they’re …
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Use a mouse on iOS with PointerKit
Great work by Louis D’hauwe: PointerKit is a proof of concept framework to use a pointing device on iOS. This is done via a multipeer connection between a Mac and an iOS device. The pointer movement is captured by the Mac app, after which it’s send to the receiving iOS device (over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi). …
Allemansrätten – Sweden on Airbnb
Allemansrätten – or the freedom to roam – is a principle protected by Swedish law that gives all people the right to be free in Swedish nature. It’s a place where you can eat berries from the ground, sleep under the stars, swim in the lakes and roam freely. To make this home available for …
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The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power
Nice piece by Vox on nuclear energy. Nowadays we generally associate nuclear energy with bad things like disasters and mushroom clouds … but producing nuclear energy is also carbon neutral, and the production process can be made safer and more efficient. Doesn’t that make it part of our future energy strategy? We have startups building …
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Using react-devtools with React Native
The “React Developer Tools” is a very handy browser extension which lets inspect and manipulate the React component hierarchy along with their props and state. There’s also a standalone version, to be used with React Native. To use it, install it as a project dependency: npm install –save-dev react-devtools And then adjust the scripts section …