A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
I like these little masterpieces by Marco Sodano. Pixel-art using LEGO, if you like 🙂
Self-Portrait, Vincent Van Gogh (1889)
Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1503–1506)
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665)
More artworks in the links.
Earlier this week SpaceX’s SN10 rocket took off, ascended to ±10km, and then after a free fall in the horizontal position turned vertical again to successfully land (only to explode a few minutes later).
While you can rewatch the whole thing online I’m more fascinated by this composite photo by Jack Beyer, visualizing the trajectory:
This is a composite image of SN10's launch and landing. I set this camera to shoot one frame a second, threw out any overlapping shots and stacked them all so we can see the trajectory better. @NASASpaceflight
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— Jack Beyer (@thejackbeyer) March 4, 2021
Cool! 🚀
A landscape, painted with CSS:
Click the image to go to the CodePen. Do note it’s quite heavy on resources (hence why I haven’t embedded it here).
👋 Psst, try changing the color of the sun 😉
script tagsWhen exactly is a script loaded and when is it executed? What about modules? This overview/cheatsheet sums it up nicely:
The cheatsheet was extracted from this tweet by Addy Osmani
This XKCD comic is right up my alley:
The projection does a good job preserving both distance and azimuth, at the cost of really exaggerating how many South Americas there are.
😂
— Sarah Sampsel (@sarahsampsel) January 9, 2020
Speaking of Push Notifications in the previous post, how about this Dark Pattern right here which I encountered recently:
Press Allow to verify that you’re not a robot
Pretty sure many users walk blindly into that trap!? 😞
var vs let vs constNice Doodle by Abhishek Kumar explaining the difference between JavaScript’s var, let, and const:
Good to see hoisting is also explicitly mentioned by name.
💁♂️ I personally always start with const. Only if I need to reassign a variable’s value (for example: a counter in a loop) I use let. I see no good reason to use var.