A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
UPDATE 2017.08.03: This should be fixed with the release of HAXM 6.1.1. Make sure you’re running the latest version of Android Studio On a recent project I was working on, I wasn’t able to start the Android Emulator/Simulator anymore from within Android Studio. Every time I launched it from Android Studio it would start, but …
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I’m not sure which update exactly broke it, but recently I got this when trying to launch the Android Emulator from the CLI: $ emulator -list-avds Nexus_5X_API_25 $ emulator -avd Nexus_5X_API_25 [140735953220544]:ERROR:./android/qt/qt_setup.cpp:28:Qt library not found at ../emulator/lib64/qt/lib Could not launch ‘../emulator/qemu/darwin-x86_64/qemu-system-i386′: No such file or directory Apparently there’s some relative path linking happening, which of …
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Thanks to some absolute positioning, hue-rotation, and even some clipping you can create nice split emoji: I especially like the experiments near the lower part of the demo, where one emoji is used as a modifier for the other (e.g. the 🎩 is placed on top of 😁, yielding a new emoji). They remind me …
Array#map(), reduce(), and filter()In The Trouble With Loops I found these nice and simple examples covering Array#map(), Array#reduce(), and Array#filter(). const dollars = [32, 45, 50]; // map(): When you want to translate values in an array into another set of values. const euros = dollars.map(eachAmount => eachAmount * .93); // reduce(): When you want a total based …
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Speaking of Rogue One: Maple Films have released a fan edit of Rogue One, entitled “Rogue One: The Battle of Scarif”. If you’re in the mood to watch Rogue One but would rather skip the attempts at character development and Forest Whitaker’s pet tentacle monster, pull up Rogue One: The Battle of Scarif and jump …
Really looking forward to this one: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada, and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. Back in December I was in Brussels to see an IMAX showing of Rogue One. One of the trailers preceding the main feature …
When using Stateless Components throughout your React app, the lifecycle events (componentWillMount, componentDidMount, etc.) are still executed. Developer Philippe Lehoux found a way to bypass these, resulting in a 45% speed improvement: What if we could skip React internals for these components? Instead of mounting them as components, let’s just call them as what they …
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