A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Lego Star Wars Hoth MOC – UCS Scale Hoth Base. This took me about a year to complete and uses over 16,000 pieces. It is a UCS Scale Hoth Base for the Millennium Falcon 75192. The main gates are motorized with power functions. Impressive!
Ow, this is nice. And apparently it’s called “Photogrammetry”. 💭 Reminds me of Microsoft’s Photosynth (RIP)
Embedded above, but also available as a transcript, is Scott Jehl’s talk “Move Fast & Don’t Break Things” on how to keep your website performant. The talk starts of with Progressive Enhancement (of course!) and covers things such as Responsive Images, Native Lazy Loading of Images, font-display: swap;, Paint Metrics, etc. Move Fast & Don’t …
At React Advanced 2019 Conference, Shawn Wang planned on giving a talk on writing your own React with Hooks from scratch. As he already did that (ace!) talk at JSConf.Asia (video here), he decided to swing things around and write his own React clone with support for Concurrent Mode:
The problem in business is we have lopsided metrics. We have a million-and-one metrics to measure someone’s performance, and negligible to no metrics to measure someone’s trustworthiness. 👉 You might know Simon from other videos such as Millennials (in the Workplace) or Why Leaders Eat Last. Totally worth your time.
Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they shouldn’t. 🤓 Also see Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones
