A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Good idea by Carly: Trello is a web application I’d used for project organization before, and I realized that with the assistance of the Custom Fields power-up, I could pretty much get every field needed to run a portfolio just from their API. Just on a standard card, I can input a title and description, …
Back in February, Rome – an experimental JavaScript toolchain – was pre-released by open-sourcing its code. Rome is designed to replace Babel, ESLint, Webpack, Prettier, Jest, and others. It unifies functionality that has previously been separate tools. Building upon a shared base allows us to provide a cohesive experience for processing code, displaying errors, parallelizing …
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The past few weeks I’ve been using Krisp during Zoom/Meet/Skype/etc. calls. It is a virtual microphone which uses artificial intelligence to filter out background noises. Once installed you select a microphone for it to filter, and then inside Skype/Zoom/Meet you choose the Krisp Virtual Microphone to use. While I was a bit sceptical at first, …
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By Adobe: React Spectrum includes three libraries: React Spectrum — A React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system. React Aria — A library of React Hooks that provides accessible UI primitives for your design system. React Stately — A library of React Hooks that provides cross-platform state management and core logic for your design system. …
Covered here before are Records and Tuples, two Immutable Datastructures most likely coming to JavaScript. Sebastien Lorber takes a look at how these will improve React. A whole category of React bugs are related to unstable object identities: Performance: can trigger re-renders that could be avoided Behavior: can trigger useless effect re-executions, and lead to …
useQueryParams – A React Hook for managing state in URL query parameters
Once you’ve set up a QueryParamProvider high up your component tree, you can start using useQueryParam to get (and set) querystring parameters import * as React from 'react'; import { useQueryParam, NumberParam, StringParam } from 'use-query-params'; const UseQueryParamExample = () => { // something like: ?x=123&foo=bar in the URL const [num, setNum] = useQueryParam('x', NumberParam); …
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George Cave takes a look at the UX of the LEGO Interface Panels These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different bricks, let’s see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces. The UX of LEGO Interface …
Small and lightweight, I like: import tinykeys from "tinykeys" tinykeys(window, { "Shift+D": () => { alert("The 'Shift' and 'd' keys were pressed at the same time") }, "y e e t": () => { alert("The keys 'y', 'e', 'e', and 't' were pressed in order") }, "$mod+KeyD": () => { alert("Either 'Control+d' or 'Meta+d' were …
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