A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
A simple JavaScript city builder with no simulation at all. No budget, no goals. Just build your tiny city. This would work on a phone, but it wasn’t designed with phones in mind. I especially like that the URL changes while drawing, so your designs are immediately shareable. IsoCity – A isometric city builder in …
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Speaking of Push Notifications in the previous post, how about this Dark Pattern right here which I encountered recently: Press Allow to verify that you’re not a robot Pretty sure many users walk blindly into that trap!? 😞
Looking forward to this Chrome 80 feature: To protect notifications as a useful service for users, Chrome 80 will show, under certain conditions, a new, quieter notification permission UI that reduces the interruptiveness of notification permission requests. Immediately after the Chrome 80 release, users will be able to opt-in to the new UI manually in …
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Matthew Somerville: I followed a link to one of those Guardian end-of-year quizzes on my phone, and had answered a few questions before realising that it was working entirely without JavaScript (I have JavaScript disabled on my phone). I found this very impressive, well done whoever worked on that, and so I thought I would …
Lego Star Wars Hoth MOC – UCS Scale Hoth Base. This took me about a year to complete and uses over 16,000 pieces. It is a UCS Scale Hoth Base for the Millennium Falcon 75192. The main gates are motorized with power functions. Impressive!
Nice tool to generate custom text effects such as underline, strikethrough, italic, small caps, circles, upside down, etc. The tool does not use custom fonts, but translates your entered text to other UTF-8 code points which have the effect built in — 🄻🄸🄺🄴 🅃🄷🄸🅂, 🄵🄾🅁 🄴🅇🄰🄼🄿🄻🄴 🚨 Before you go wild with it though, don’t …
Viacheslav Luschinskiy goes over the utils and libraries they use for building React apps. It is the opinionated set of libraries and technical approaches to quickly build scalable enterprise class applications in React. It also comes with the small demo app which can be used as a bootstrap kit. It includes all the mentioned libraries …
Now this will come in handy for testing: ⚗️ One of the most common integrations developers struggle to test is Guzzle. Fortunately, it has a `MockHandler` you can set up to return predefined responses. Since it uses the existing `Client` and `Response` objects, there's no need to change your implementation. — Jason McCreary (@gonedark) December …
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var vs let vs const
Nice Doodle by Abhishek Kumar explaining the difference between JavaScript’s var, let, and const: Good to see hoisting is also explicitly mentioned by name. 💁♂️ I personally always start with const. Only if I need to reassign a variable’s value (for example: a counter in a loop) I use let. I see no good reason …
String.prototype.replaceAll
UPDATE June 2020: This feature has advanced to Stage-4 and will be part of the ES2021 Specification! 🎉 An ECMAScript Language feature that’s currently in Stage-3 is String.prototype.replaceAll, a handy way to replace all instances of a piece of text in a string. ~ The Problem If you ever needed to replace a piece of …