You Don’t Know JS: Automatic Semicolons

One of the most hotly contested religious wars in the JS community (besides tabs vs spaces) is whether to rely heavily/exclusively on ASI or not. Most, but not all, semicolons are &optional. […] Let me just share my perspective. […] Getting some flashbacks to 2012, when discussions about JavaScript’s Automatic Semicolon Insertion (ASI) were all …

Visits – Location history visualization

With visits you can browse your location histories and explore your trips and travels. Our unique map timeline visualization shows the places you have visited and how long you have stayed there. Add photos from Flickr to your visits and share your journey with your family and friends! Something else than the classic “pins on …

Landline – Simple SVG maps that work everywhere.

Landline is a JavaScript library that creates SVG maps from GeoJSON. It comes with Stateline, which makes creating responsive U.S. state and county maps easy. Also perfectly possible to load in your own GeoJSON file, packed with MultiPolygons. Landline Source (GitHub) → Landline Demo →

Welcome to Union Glacier

Union Glacier is located in the southern Ellsworth Mountains of West Antarctica. This is a documentary about a small team of people who live and work on the glacier during the Antarctic summer. There’s something very Wes Anderson like to this documentary. Must say I like it. A lot. Highly recommended and worth your time.

speedtest-cli

$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration… Retrieving speedtest.net server list… Testing from BELNET (193.190.130.xxx)… Selecting best server based on latency… Hosted by Cu.be Solutions (Diegem) [46.42 km]: 3.552 ms Testing download speed…………………………………. Download: 60.72 Mbits/s Testing upload speed………………………………………….. Upload: 58.91 Mbits/s Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net On OS X, install it via …

MySQL behaviour you should be aware of

I suggest changing the syntax for NOT NULL to “NOT” NULL. If you’re not checking all values in your code logic (viz. PHP code or something like that) before attempting to perform the database manipulation you can fix it by (manually) add triggers to your tables to actually prevent a faulty insert/update: mysql> CREATE TRIGGER …

Slate – Beautiful static documentation for your API

Slate helps you create beautiful API documentation. Think of it as an intelligent, responsive documentation template for your API. Slate – Beautiful static documentation for your API → Tutorial: Writing API Documentation with Slate → Related: Swagger, a dynamic documentation generator