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Getting Closure on React Hooks
Ace talk by Shawn Wang: The design of React Hooks requires a good understanding of closures in JavaScript. In this talk, we’ll reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React! This will serve two purposes – to demonstrate the effective use of closures, and to show how you can build a Hooks clone in …
The deadly race to the South Pole
From the “Vox Darkroom” series: Robert Falcon Scott was a British explorer who dreamed of being the first person to reach the South Pole. In 1912, he reached the Pole only to learn that his Norwegian rival, Roald Amundsen, had beat him to it. Caught by freakish weather and a string of bad luck, his …
The Raspberry Pi 4, the Ultimate iPad Pro Accessory?
Rob from Tech Craft has been wild about using a Raspberry Pi 4 along with his iPad Pro. Never thought of this use case, but I was nodding in agreement whilst I was watching this. 😴 The video only gets interesting halfway through; feel free to skip the first part
Paper Phone – A printable paper phone which helps you take a break from your digital world
Nice experiment by Google: A lot of people feel that they spend too much time on their phones and struggle to find a balance with technology. Paper Phone helps you have a little break away from your digital world by printing a personal booklet of the key information you’ll need that day. Paper Phone →
Automatically correct color distortion in underwater photos with “Sea-thru”
When diving you’ll notice that the colors start acting up: everything will become more washed out (and look more green/blue) from the moment you look down in the water, and everything will become darker as you descend. Colors like red go first: at a depth of 10m it looks brown. To correct this, underwater photographers …
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Faster JavaScript Apps with JSON.parse()
A performance trick that’s been doing rounds on Twitter, now available as a video: Because the JSON grammar is much simpler than JavaScript’s grammar, JSON can be parsed more efficiently than JavaScript. This knowledge can be applied to improve start-up performance for web apps that ship large JSON-like configuration object literals (such as inline Redux …
How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days
At the most recent edition of Fronteers Conference – a conference which I’ve been attending for over 10 yeras by now – Jeremy Keith & Remy Sharp did a two-person talk on their rebuild of the original WorldWideWeb application back in February. Join (Je)Remy on a journey through time and space and code as they …
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Building Better Interfaces, a talk by Hakim El Hattab
At CSS Day 2019, I was fortunate to see Hakim El Hattab bring his talk Building Better Interfaces. A recording of his talk – and all other talks – are available on YouTube: This session is a deep-dive into the areas of interface design that Hakim has specialized in for over a decade—interactivity and animation. …
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Boston Dynamics Spot hands-on: new dog, new tricks
An update on Spot / SpotMini, by The Verge: Boston Dynamics is putting Spot to work. The company has announced a new leasing program for its Spot robot (formerly SpotMini), which is aimed at construction, entertainment, and other automation-friendly industries. But is the world ready for this semi-autonomous quadruped? Boston Dynamics’ Spot is leaving the …
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