I love this kind of stuff: fictitious maps of the America that voted for Trump, and the America that voted for Clinton. The Two Americas of 2016 → (via)
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Getting ready for PHP 7.1
In short: Catching multiple exception types Curl HTTP/2 server push support Support class constant visibility Void return types Generalize support of negative string offsets Allow specifying keys in list() and square bracket syntax for array destructuring Warn about invalid strings in arithmetic Deprecate and remove mcrypt() Upcoming changes in PHP 7.1 → Don’t forget about …
Does code need to be perfect?
Andreas Creten, founder of Made With Love, on different needs in code quality depending on what type of product (POC, MVP, …) you are making. Until your MVP really gets traction you can run on shitty code or even do things manually to prove you have a product/market fit. Only once you nail it and …
deck.gl – Large-scale WebGL-powered Data Visualization
New open sourced project by Uber Engineering, for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets: At Uber, the many GPS points we process every day serves needs across the company. If we have a problem in our platform, we can diagnose it by exploring historical geolocation data. If there’s an accident on the road, we …
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TopoJSON
TopoJSON is an extension of GeoJSON that encodes topology. Rather than representing geometries discretely, geometries in TopoJSON files are stitched together from shared line segments called arcs. […] TopoJSON eliminates redundancy, allowing related geometries to be stored efficiently in the same file. For example, the shared boundary between California and Nevada is represented only once, …
CSS Architecture for Design Systems
Excellent post by Brad Frost in which he explains how they’ve combined class prefixes with BEM. In addition to a global namespace, we added prefixes to each class to make it more apparent what job that class is doing. Here’s what class prefixes we landed on: c- for UI components, such as .cn-c-card or .cn-c-header …
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Westworld’s multiple timeline theory
The HBO series Westworld is tricking fans into thinking the story takes in chronological order. However, a close look reveals that what we’re seeing is a nonlinear timeline. Two of the main storylines — the Man in Black in one, and William and Logan in the other — are actually separated by at least 30 …