AutoDraw: Fast Drawing for Everyone

After Quickdraw a few months ago – in which A.I. guesses what you are doodling – now comes AutoDraw from Google. AutoDraw is a new kind of drawing tool. It pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast. AutoDraw’s suggestion tool uses the same technology used in QuickDraw, …

Text Escaping and Unescaping in JavaScript with strutil

Today the package strutil came in handy, after receiving (*) this UTF-8 Quoted Printable text in my hands: =?UTF-8?Q?Test_=F0=9F=91=BB?= Thanks to strutil#unescapeFromMime() I was able to regain the original string: Test 👻 Upon further investigation of strutil it turns out that this package is really powerful as it can do a truckload of things when …

Copycat JavaScript Game

Fun little game in which you control more than one character at once in a level, all bound to the same controls. Using walls and other obstacles you can sync up the locations between characters in order for each character to reach its own target. The game itself is written in “vanillaJS”, sans external libraries, …

Getting ready for Symonfy 4.0

Fabien Potencier, founder and project lead of Symfony: Symfony 4.0 will be released at the end of November 2017. During the next few weeks, I will publish articles about my ideas and the main changes I want to implement for Symfony 4. So far 4 articles have been released by now, with more to follow: …