Trailer for The Mandalorian, a Star Wars live-action series, due November 12 on Disney+: After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. “The Mandalorian” is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone […]
Category Archives: Elsewhere
How To Organize Team Building Retreats
UX studio, a Budapest based 30-person design company on how they plan their team retreats, how they keep the balance between fun activities and serious work during those retreats, etc: Every six months, our whole UX company travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about […]
Learn about security by hacking a fake bank using a real hacking method
Cool interactive site showing your how to perform a Server Side Request Forgery hack, based on a true incident: The following interactive tutorial is a reconstruction of Capital One’s data breach incident that exposed the records of almost 106 million customers. Paige Thompson is accused of breaking into a Capital One server and gaining access […]
Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters
Harry Roberts has done an extensive write-up on Time To First Byte (TTFB), an often overlooked metric when it comes to measuring the performance of websites. While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. To see what happens during your TTFB, […]
The ingredients of a classic house track
Another great video in the Vox Earworm series, a must see for any (house) music lover. Perfect fit to watch right after their previous “The Disco Invention that Changed Pop Music” video. On June 12, 1979, thousands of disco records were destroyed at Chicago’s “Disco Demolition Night”. Within one year, Chicago DJs and producers had […]
5 Tips to Help You Avoid React Hooks Pitfalls
Kent C. Dodds: As hot as it is, React Hooks require a bit of a change in the way you think about React Component Lifecycles, State, and Side Effects and it can be easy to fall into problematic scenarios if you’re not thinking about React Hooks properly. So let’s look a bit at what pitfalls […]
The Boy and the Sea
The Boy and The Sea, Willy Verginer, Sculpture, 2019. (via @netlash)
React DevTools 4.0
Version 4 of the React DevTools have been released, with a lot of improvements. At a high level, this new version should offer significant performance gains and an improved navigation experience. It also offers full support for React Hooks, including inspecting nested objects. The release notes hold a detailed list of changes, with example gifs. […]
Inside NASA’s facility where they keep the Moon Rocks
In honour of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing – which launched on July 16th, 1969 – Destin from SmarterEveryDay went to the NASA facility where they keep about 70% of the Moon Rocks that were ever collected (Apollo Missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). The video offers us a […]
Old Typewriter Text Effect
By randomly changing the opacity and adding a little text-shadow, one can create this old typewriter effect: Makes good use of currentColor for the shadow, so it can be applied on any coloured text. Old Typewriter Text Effect → 💁♂️ Don’t confuse this effect with a typing carousel which types the letters one-by-one.