A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
pipcorn
With pipcorn you can spawn a picture-in-picture YouTube player on your Mac without installing anything! Install it globally using npm, or run it directly using npx: npx pipcorn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Basically it’s a wrapper around ytdl (to get the MP4 URL) and open-pip-cli (to open a PIP player). Love the name, too. pipcorn Source (GitHub) →
When automating the publishing of an NPM package, 2FA can get in the way, as you can’t really automate entering a 2FA auth code off a cellphone. Enter Wombat Dressing Room from Google: With Wombat Dressing Room, rather than an individual configuring two factor authentication in an authenticator app, 2FA is managed by a shared …
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Philip Walton on how to progressively enhance your site by leveraging Service Workers to fetch partial HTML content and replace it in the DOM: On this site, after a user visits once and the service worker is installed, that user will never request a full HTML page again. Instead the service worker will intercept requests …
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The Apollo docs sports a very complete tutorial, combining TypeScript, GraphQL, and Apollo (of course): In this tutorial, we’ll build an interactive app for reserving a seat on an upcoming SpaceX launch. Think of it as an Airbnb for space travel! All of the data is real, thanks to the SpaceX-API. To populate the views, …
Caleb Porzio‘s “Project X” recently got its official name: Alpine.js. Alpine.js offers you the reactive and declarative nature of big frameworks like Vue or React at a much lower cost. You get to keep your DOM, and sprinkle in behavior as you see fit. It, like Vue which was one of its sources of inspirations, …
Simple and to the point article, with a few commands included, by Dirk Hoekstra: In a nutshell, you give Google’s Cloud Run a Docker container containing a webserver. Google will run this container and create an HTTP endpoint. With Google’s App Engine however you tell Google how your app should be run. The App Engine …
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Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash Dan Abramov on how he once overnight refactored a piece of WET code written by a colleague, but then got called out for doing so: My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was …
From the folks at Basecamp, a guide on how/when/why they use chat/face-to-face/e-mail/… when communicating. Below you’ll find a collection of general principles we try to keep in mind at Basecamp when communicating with teammates, within departments, across the company, and with the public. They aren’t requirements, but they serve to create boundaries and shared practices …
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Kent C. Dodds lists 5 JavaScript Features he uses every day on JavaScript January Destructuring Modules Value defaults Arrow functions Promises and async/await I’d like to add Spreading and Template Literals to that list. 5 Modern JavaScript Features I Couldn’t Code Without →
Harry Roberts on how to set a Performance Budgets if you really don’t have a clue where to start: Time and again I hear clients discussing their performance budgets in terms of goals: “We’re aiming toward a budget of 250KB uncompressed JavaScript; we hope to be interactive in 2.75s”. While it’s absolutely vital that these …
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