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Always Must Go
Astronautalis, a touring musician who’s been on the road for quite a long time now: I do enjoy being home. But I am at my most comfortable when I’m gone. He doesn’t necessarily loathe being home; he wants to disconnect, escape the day-to-day life. That’s where his motorcycle comes in the picture: When you get …
Re-thinking reading on the Web
When we were introduced to the team at The Atlantic they were creating a series of articles about “Population Health”. They wanted to tell these stories in an interactive and visual way. The challenge was to create interactive visualizations based on industry concepts and make them accessible to both healthcare professionals and the a casual …
EarlGrey – iOS UI Automation Test Framework
New native iOS UI automation test framework from Google: With the EarlGrey framework, you have access to enhanced synchronization features […] which help ensure that the UI is in a steady state before actions are performed. This greatly increases test stability and makes tests highly repeatable. EarlGrey works in conjunction with the XCTest framework and …
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Testing React Native Apps on Android and iOS
These apps are regular native Android and iOS apps, and basically any test automation frameworks works for them: Robotium, Appium, Calabash, uiautomator, Espresso, Jasmine, UI Automation, TestNG, Frank, KIF and many others! Therefore, you do have a great freedom of choice when you build your apps based on React Native framework. Contains example scripts for …
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JavaScript Photo Sphere Viewer
See the Pen Photosphere Demo by Bramus! on CodePen. Photo Sphere Viewer is a JavaScript library that allows you to display 360×180 degrees panoramas on any web page. Panoramas must use the equirectangular projection and they can be taken with Photo Sphere, the camera mode brought by Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Photo Sphere Viewer uses …
Read EXIF thumbnail from JPG image using JavaScript
Little demo by @codepo8 which reads the thumbnail out of the EXIF data of an image: The code itself is very simple: it opens a FileReader and seeks for the second occurrence (*) of 0xFF 0xD8 (Start of Image) along with its following 0xFF 0xD9 (End of Image). All bytes in between are the thumbnail …
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The Worst-Designed Thing You’ve Never Noticed
Roman Mars is obsessed with flags — and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology — the study of flags — Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything. Worth your …
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Which Way Did He Go? Lateral Character Movement in Film
The future of loading CSS
It’s soon OK to link to stylesheets directly from anywhere inside the <body> without having FOUCs: The plan is for each <link rel="stylesheet"> to block rendering of subsequent content while the stylesheet loads, but allow the rendering of content before it. The stylesheets load in parallel, but they apply in series. This makes <link rel="stylesheet"> …