A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Good overview to get started with ES2015 by Zell Liew in case you’re still not using it (which you should; just do it!). As he puts it: JavaScript has progressed a ton in the recent years. If you’re learning JavaScript in 2017 and you haven’t touched ES6 ES2015, you’re missing out on an easier way …
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With Chrome 57+, the Node.js debugging feature is enabled by default. To start debugging, run your Node.js application [using Node 6.4+] with the –inspect flag. Like so: $ node –inspect <your_file>.js Open the outputted URL or visit chrome://inspect/ to open dedicated DevTools for Node to start debugging 🙂 Debugging Node.js with Google Chrome →
Justin O’Beirne kept an eye on how a specific area evolved on Google Maps and on Apple Maps over time: Patricia’s Green is the centerpiece of a vibrant and trendy neighborhood in central San Francisco, just blocks away from City Hall. I wrote a script that takes monthly screenshots of Google and Apple Maps. Thirteen …
This release marks months of hard work for the young, scrappy, and hungry CLI team, and includes some changes we’ve been hoping to do for literally years. npm@5 takes npm a pretty big step forward, significantly improving its performance in almost all common situations, fixing a bunch of old errors due to the architecture, and …
Nice work by the Ableton folks. A website to experiment with beats, melody, harmony, basslines, and song structure: In these lessons, you’ll learn the basics of music making. No prior experience or equipment is required; you’ll do everything right here in your browser. Right here in your browser™ Learning Music with Ableton →
It’s one of these things I too keep struggling with from time to time: do you organize your project files per type/functionality, or per feature? Alex Moldovan from FortechRomania: Our approach starts from the need to isolate the React code into a single folder — called views — and the redux code into a separate folder — called redux. Inside the …
Max Stoiber, on determining if you’re qualified or not for a specific (frontend) job listing: If you’ve built a side project with React.js and know your way around JavaScript in general, you’re at least as qualified as 90% of all other devs out there. I’ll tell you a secret: Nobody knows what the fuck they’re …
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Great work by Louis D’hauwe: PointerKit is a proof of concept framework to use a pointing device on iOS. This is done via a multipeer connection between a Mac and an iOS device. The pointer movement is captured by the Mac app, after which it’s send to the receiving iOS device (over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi). …
Allemansrätten – or the freedom to roam – is a principle protected by Swedish law that gives all people the right to be free in Swedish nature. It’s a place where you can eat berries from the ground, sleep under the stars, swim in the lakes and roam freely. To make this home available for …