In iOS6, POST requests over XHR seem to be cached quite aggressively. Luckily, it’s fixable: After a bit of investigation, turns out that Safari on iOS6 will cache POSTs that have either no Cache-Control headers or even Cache-Control: max-age=0. The only way I’ve found of preventing this caching from happening at a global level rather …
jQuery Stick ‘em
jQuery plugin to mimic the new and upcoming CSS position: sticky; position: sticky is a new way to position elements and is conceptually similar to position: fixed. The difference is that an element with position: sticky behaves like position: relative within its parent, until a given offset threshold is met in the viewport. jQuery Stick’em …
BananaBread
BananaBread is a 3D first person shooter that runs on the web. It takes the Cube 2: Sauerbraten engine, which is written in C++ and OpenGL, and compiles it using Emscripten into JavaScript and WebGL so that it can run in modern browsers using standards-based web APIs and without the need for plugins. Be amazed. …
Office for Mac 2011 Retina update not working — Fix!
Today Microsoft released a Retina update for the entire Office for Mac suite. After installing it however the apps still opened in non-retina mode. A reboot didn’t help either. Turns out Microsoft forgot to change the modification date of each Office for Mac app, a date which Finder uses to detect any changes — such …
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Pushover — Simple mobile notifications for iOS and Android
Little app that is built only to receive notifications on your smartphone. Notifications can be sent from any (non-smartphone) app you build by doing a simple HTTP request. Also works with IFTTT curl -s \ -F “token=abc123” \ -F “user=user123” \ -F “message=hello world” \ https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json Pushover →