The engineering team at WalmartLabs has been switching their (hybrid) web views to React Native: The data we’ve gathered is promising. It has shown that React Native is indeed a viable solution for mobile applications big and small. In the areas of graphical performance, RAM usage, and CPU, every measure we took was comparable to …
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Facebook Live Reactions
Facebook Live Reactions is a Linux script for creating Facebook Live Streams that contains interactive reaction counts. It also includes an interactive shoutout feature that gives live shoutouts to users who typed “shared” into the comment box. The livestreaming itself is handled through ffmpeg; whilst PHP takes care of the counting of all reactions and …
How the Circle Line rogue train was caught with data
Singapore GovTech data scientists share how they identified a rogue train as the cause of the recent MRT Circle Line disruptions: Singapore’s MRT Circle Line was hit by a spate of mysterious disruptions in recent months, causing much confusion and distress to thousands of commuters. From prior investigations by train operator SMRT and the Land …
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Polyfill.io
Interesting service by Polyfill.io. Just include their polyfill.js file and it’ll include a set of polyfills specifically for the browser used: <script src="https://cdn.polyfill.io/v2/polyfill.min.js"></script> Polyfill.io reads the User-Agent header of each request and returns polyfills that are suitable for the requesting browser. This one could come in handy for older projects that have gathered some dust …
Shipmap.org – Visualisation of Global Cargo Ships
JavaScript30 – Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials
Great, and free, video course by Wes Bos (whom you really should follow on Twitter). So, you’ve done a few courses and read a few books but still don’t feel great about your relationship with JavaScript. How do you get better? Build things. Lots of things. Build 1,000 things. Keep it up and don’t stop. …
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Δ now: realtime global deployments
Δnow allows you to take your JavaScript (Node.js) or Docker powered websites, applications and services to the cloud with ease, speed and reliability. Every time you deploy a project, Δnow gives you a unique URL to it (even before build processes are complete!). When it’s time to take your deployment to production, you simply pick …
Exponent – Write Android & iOS apps in JS
The bold beauty of content prototypes
Thomas Byttebier, after having joined a digital team at Base a while ago: It’s been a crazy six months. And in all honesty: I struggled. I struggled with process. I struggled with communication. I struggled with clients. Front end was too far from design and content only arrived when a project was nearly live. As …