A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Have you ever wished you could change some config parameter for your app without deploying a new version? Of course you have! Wouldn’t it be great if you had whole config for your app in the cloud and change it as you see fit? Of course it would! Well, go ahead, just put some config …
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The Chrome DevTools have this neat feature where you can “blackbox” JavaScript source files. Upon blackboxing a script the debugger will jump over anything contained in that file when stepping in/out/over code, and not pause on any breakpoints also contained in that file. A typical example would be to blackbox the script of the JS …
Flow is a static type checker for JavaScript. With it, you can add types to any existing JS code. Without flow: function foo(x, y) { return x.length * y; } With flow: // @flow function foo(x: string, y: number): number { return x.length * y; } When passing in a Number for the value of …
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We’re all doomed: In this paper, we propose a WiFi signal based keystroke recognition system called WiKey. WiKey consists of two Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) WiFi devices, a sender (such as a router) and a receiver (such as a laptop). The sender continuously emits signals and the receiver continuously receives signals. When a human subject types …
@supports)There’s a good introduction to @supports on Mozilla Hacks: With @supports, you can write a small test in your CSS to see whether or not a particular “feature” (CSS property or value) is supported, and apply a block of code (or not) based on the answer. Progressive enhancement in it’s finest form: /* fallback code …