Tag: programming
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Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
“aisatsana” is the final track off Aphex Twin’s 2012 release, Syro. A departure from the synthy dance tunes which make up the majority of Aphex Twin’s catalog, aisatsana is quiet, calm, and perfect for listening to during activities which require concentration. But with a measly running time just shy of five and a half minutes, …
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Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex
How to guides
How to encrypt/decrypt with Enigma
We'll start with a step-by-step guide to decrypting a known message. You can see the result of these steps in CyberChef here. Let's say that our message is as follows:
XTSYN WAEUG EZALY NRQIM AMLZX MFUOD AWXLY LZCUZ QOQBQ JLCPK NDDRW F
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The "Backendification" of Frontend Development
https://hackernoon.com/the-backendification-of-frontend-development-62f218a773d4 (hackernoon.com)
Asynchronous JavaScript in the form of Single Page Applications (SPA) offer an incredible opportunity for improving the user experience of your web applications. CSS frameworks like Bootstrap enable developers to quickly contribute styling as they’re working on the structure and behaviour of things.
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Modern CSS on DanQ.me
Dan explains three of the cutting-edge CSS features implemented on his blog.
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Debugging WorldWideWeb
His Geek Flag held high, Dan proposes a minor bugfix to some software that almost nobody cares about.
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WorldWideWeb, 30 years on
To celebrate the Web's 30th birthday, some of Dan's favourite geeks reimplemented the very first browser.
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TRRTL - Logo on Coffee
TRRTL.COM: CoffeeScript-powered Logo-like turtle graphics. On the Web.
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Programming is just solving puzzles
‘Programming is just solving puzzles’ - Nominet (Nominet) As a child, I wanted to be a botanical researcher. I loved being outdoors and used to visit the botanical gardens near my house all the time. My grandma inspired me to change my mind and helped me get interested in science. She lived in the country …
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Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
Every morning, Lena Forsen wakes up beneath a brass-trimmed wooden mantel clock dedicated to “The First Lady of the Internet.”
It was presented to her more than two decades ago by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, in recognition of the pivotal—and altogether unexpected—role she played in shaping the digital world as we … -
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (jarredsumner.com) MySpace inspired a generation of teenagers to learn how to code. We have Dark Mode now, but where did all the glitter go? During the internet of 2006, consumer products let anyone edit CSS. It was a beautiful mess. As the internet grew up, consumer products …
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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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Linda Liukas, Hello Ruby and the magic of coding
Linda Liukas's best-selling Hello Ruby books teach children that computers are fun and coding can be a magical experience.
BBC News
See the original article to watch a great video interview with Linda Liukas. Linda is the founder of Rails Girls and author of a number of books encouraging children to learn computer programming (which … -
The Ruby Story
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By 2005, Ruby had become more popular, but it was still not a mainstream programming language. That changed with the release of Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails was the “killer app” for Ruby, and it did more than any other project to popularize Ruby. After the release of Ruby on Rails, interest in Ruby … -
Learning BASIC Like It's 1983
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Now, it’s Saturday morning and you’re eager to try out what you’ve learned. One of the first things the manual teaches you how to do is change the colors on the display. You follow the instructions, pressing CTRL-9 to enter reverse type mode and then holding down the space bar to create long lines. You …