A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Deno is a brand new JavaScript runtime, similar to Node.js. Use it to develop secure server-side apps with built-in TypeScript support, ES modules, and promise-based APIs. 📝 If you’re looking for a more extensive write-up on Deno, check Deno 1.0: What you need to know
Johnny Harris, whom you might know from the Vox Borders series, on how we can possibly measure the distance to things a quadrillion km away.
In his book Arcade Game Typography designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts. In this video from the Vox by Design series he’s interviewed and asked about his favorite 8-bit fonts. Video game designers of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s faced color and resolution limitations that stimulated incredible …
Back in 2012 at dotJS – which I attended – Brian Leroux gave his talk WTFJS. Somehow the video of that talk got recommended on YouTube to me. It was fun watching this again 🙂 Gotta love coercion 😍 Also: Wat?
Video from Kai Sassnowski’s talk at Laracon EU 2019: The goal of this talk is to explain how dependency containers work by building our own. We start out by building the simplest DI container possible to demonstrate the underlying concept. Most people will be surprised about how little code this actually takes (3-4 effective lines …
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Talk by Robert Zhu, member of the GraphQL Working Group (amongst other things). Since the formation of the GraphQL Foundation last year in March, we have been working on creating a resilient process to govern the GraphQL ecosystem and language evolution. In this talk, I will discuss the roles and responsibilities of the GraphQL Foundation, …
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Tom Scott has uploaded a video to YouTube whose title reflects the number of views the video has. The title of this video should change with the times. But nothing lasts forever: here’s the story of how I made it work, why it used to be easier to make that work, and how it all …
I sometimes like to rewatch pieces from the Vox Earworm and Vox Borders video series. I especially liked this one on John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” from the Vox Earworm series, for which they won the Emmy for “Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture”: John Coltrane, one of jazz history’s most revered saxophonists, released “Giant …
If you’re looking for a good video on the possibilities of Modern CSS (“CSS X”?), check out this talk by Rachel Andrew. She’ll get you up to speed with things: Over the last few years, rapid browser implementation of advances in CSS have given us the ability to do many of these previously impossible things. …
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