Category Archives: Original Content
RE: The React is “just” JavaScript Myth
🗣 This was originally posted as a reply over at Dave’s blog. Unfortunately Disqus – the commenting system Dave uses – thinks it’s spam, so I’m posting it here as a full post instead. In his blogpost The React is … Continue reading
Using @supports to detect if a browser supports CSS Variables
As tweeted by Ire Aderinokun: @supports (color: var(–)) { /* has support */ } Not too surprising if you’ve used Feature Queries before, but what does surprise me is that you can make it work by only passing the prefix … Continue reading
Enabling experimental Developer Tools Experiments
Using chrome://flags/ it’s possible to enable “Developer Tools Experiments”. On the most recent Fronteers Conference, Umar Hansa showed that there are even more DevTools Experiments that one can enable: Enable “Developer Tools Experiments” via chrome://flags/ if you haven’t already In … Continue reading
Emoji Compositions — Create your own emoji by combining existing ones (👱♂️ + 🎩 + 🔎 = …)
Last Friday Max Lynch sent out this tweet: I'm still not over Apple killing the best emoji there ever was pic.twitter.com/gVOMhEP3Mn — Max Lynch (@maxlynch) March 15, 2018 Inspired by an idea that first came to my mind after seeing … Continue reading
Working with symlinked packages in React Native
For an RN app I’m co-developing we have several repos that work together. One of the repos acts a library for other repos to use. During development, in order to test a few things out, we sometimes need to have … Continue reading
Grid Time (or “Why are clocks in Europe lagging behind by 5 minutes?”)
Yesterday I heard on the news that clocks in Europe have started to lag behind on the official time. The culprit is a fluctuation in Europe’s electricity grid. Clocks, like the ones in your microwave, that are reliant on Grid … Continue reading
MySQL ST_Distance_Sphere Polyfill
One of the cool things about MySQL 5.7 is the fact that it sports a few spatial convenience functions (since 5.7.6), allowing one to do operations on geometric values. One of those convenience functions is ST_Distance_Sphere, which allows one to … Continue reading
React’s new context (React 16.3.0)
One of the new things in React 16.3.0 is a new context API: Typically, data in a React application is passed top-down (parent to child) via props. But sometimes it’s useful to pass values through multiple levels of abstraction without … Continue reading
ESNext: JavaScript “Nullish Coalescing Operator”
One of my favorite ECMAScript Proposals is the “Optional Chaining Operator”. Another proposal that forms great duo with it is the “Nullish Coalescing Operator” (sometimes also referred to as “Nullary Coalescing Operator”). Both proposals still are Stage-1, but don’t let … Continue reading