08 Dec 2020
Let’s build an Augmented Reality Drum Set that lets you play drums with your
full body without any musical instruments! What? Yes. Stand in front of camera 👀,
bang imaginary drums with your hands 🥁, drums play for real! 📻🎶
03 Sep 2020
Benefits of a mono-repo, based on experience from working at Netflix, Blippar,
and Aurora.
24 Jul 2019
Let’s implement the basic React API in a tweet, with React DOM & State management as a separate plugin in another tweet.
23 May 2019
Let’s implement Fractals with JavaScript, and make it fit in a tweet! 280 characters worth of code creates these amazing patterns:
19 Apr 2019
First in a series, let’s write slackbots that can fit in a tweet, and see how far that can go.
This one is an app with a few slash commands that answer any darn question you ask it!
26 Jun 2017
setTimeout
, setInterval
and requestAnimationFrame
seem to be commonly
misunderstood, and yet they are really simple to just tinker with thanks to
browser consoles.
20 Oct 2014
jQuery Mobile has a concept of pages
at its core. Top-level div
s can be specified as pages and you each page becomes a mobile screen
with transitions between them. The pattern shown here can be used to integrate templating into your jQuery Mobile app easily, using Underscore templates
(or jQuery tmpl if you prefer).
16 Oct 2014
A quick and dirty solution for the times when you want to connect to Firebase from the server, and not directly from the client browser, exposing Firebase data as simple asynchronous calls in Node.js.
13 Oct 2014
Get a quick list of resources in your website that loaded slowly during page load, using Chrome DevTools.
06 Oct 2014
Getting MySQL data out from Amazon RDS databases is frustratingly hard and makes you want to kill yourself when it finally works without the port number.
03 Oct 2014
Sometimes you need a sequence of callbacks to run synchronously and break out of the whole sequence as soon as one of them fails.
02 Oct 2014
Logging that looks good and helps you debug
faster.
01 Oct 2014
It’s better to fail with your own error than undefined is not a function
.