Tag: javascript
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TRRTL - Logo on Coffee
TRRTL.COM: CoffeeScript-powered Logo-like turtle graphics. On the Web.
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Bassoontracker - Release 0.3.0 is out!
Steffest Digitale Pulptuur (steffest.com)
During the past months I have been tinkering along on Bassoontracker - My browser based Retro Music Tool.
Today, it's ready for a next big release: Version 0.3.0 is out!
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Steffest
This is just about the coolest thing in the world. I played with Scream Tracker and a handful of other trackers … -
CSS-driven console graphics
There's an Easter egg in danq.me which you can see in your browser's debug console.
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Pong
Yesterday was World Digital Preservation Day, so Dan reimplemented Pong for the video wall at the Bodleian.
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Pong on the Heritage Window
Testing a few days prior to public display.
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When to use CSS vs. JavaScript
CSS before JS #
My general rule of thumb is…
If something I want to do with JavaScript can be done with CSS instead, use CSS.
CSS parses and renders faster.
For things like animations, it more easily hooks into the browser’s refresh rate cycle to provide silky smooth animations (this can be done in … -
Push without notifications
On the first day of Indie Web Camp Berlin, I led a session on going offline with service workers. This covered all the usual use-cases: pre-caching; custom offline pages; saving pages for offline reading.
But on the second day, Sebastiaan spent a fair bit of time investigating a more complex use of service workers with the … -
The thing about ad-blocker popups
I’ve been, in the past, a firm distruster of ad blocking software. I still am, to a large extent. I don’t trust any company whose finance model is based on inserting exceptions for advertisers they like. But I installed Ghostery, whose model is to use the stats of what gets blocked to offer consultancy to …
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Salty JavaScript analogy
JavaScript is like salt. If you add just enough salt to a dish, it’ll help make the flavour awesome. Add too much though, and you’ll completely ruin it.
Similarly, if you add just enough JavaScript to your website, it’ll help make it awesome. Add too much though, and you’ll completely ruin it.
Andy Bell
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What's The Longest Word You Can Write With Seven-Segment Displays?
Tom Scott (YouTube)
From now on, when I try to engage junior programmers with the notion that they should make use of their general-purpose computers to answer questions for them... no matter how silly the question?... I'll show them this video. It's a moderately-concise explanation of the thought processes and programming practice … -
How Much of My Graticule is Covered With Water?
How much of an advantage do inland geohashers have over island ones? Dan attempts to quantify the answer in the hackiest way he can think of.
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The Bullshit Web
The Bullshit Web (pxlnv.com) My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember …
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Dwitter
Dwitter is a community of <canvas> artists who write Javascript programs of no more than 140 characters to produce beautiful graphical output. Some favourites: Bluer waves, d/3697, d/4388. If the demoscene were invented today, this is what it might look like. -
Lunar Lander
Back in 1997 Dan made a "Lunar Lander" game in Turbo Pascal. Twenty years on, he's re-implemented it in Javascript.
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How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 – Hacker Noon (hackernoon.com)
No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article.
The following is inspired by the article “It’s the future” from Circle CI. You can read the original here. This piece is just an opinion, and like any JavaScript framework, …