[[object saveAsync:obj] continueWithBlock:^id(BFTask *task) { if (task.isCancelled) { // the save was cancelled. } else if (task.error) { // the save failed. } else { // the object was saved successfully. SaveResult *saveResult = task.result; } return nil; }]; Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier. The first …
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The Frequency of Humanity
Every day on Earth, an estimated 371,124 people are born and 154,995 people die. When you ask Wolfram Alpha about these rates, the scientifically inclined site returns a curious corresponding quantity: the frequency in hertz. If you subtract the death rate from the birth rate, you get a net rate of 216,129 new people a …
The Sunday Times – Icons
The Psychology of Waiting, Loading Animations, and Facebook
Using the DevTools to get first in line to buy Tomorrowland tickets
All Friday night we were busy monitoring the different API-calls from the ticketpage to Paylogic. We found out that the ticket page refreshed every 2 minutes with a delay of 6 seconds to send back the answer. The trick was to refresh the ticket page in your browser at exactly 10h. 57m. 54sec., whereafter the …
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Air Hockey Robot
Threes
Web Theremin
The weight of rain
When I’m looking at data, I’m looking for little “Aha!” moments that I can point to, and say “Look here, something happened,” and then try to explain. Often those small moments can help lead a reader into the graphic, or help to explain the whole. And then he switches over to Mars Rover and Kepler …
The Amen Break
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Everything …