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So, some history. When SPA's started to boom on the web JSDoc was a life saver for typing. Application state was getting more complex. We needed more guard rails. Then Google Closure Compiler cam…

I'm seeing the same thing in Australia. These new tech companies/existing companies were not here for the first wave of offshoring engineers many years ago. basically, the product/servi…

Most people take photos of DSO's, but while you've got the gear, why not photograph the moon. It's also technically fun. Using a cooled camera, I video the moon/Jupiter at 20fps at…

And this varies widely between models based on how they are told to reason.

Some app devs use local models on local environments with LLM APIs to get up and running fast, then when the app deploys it switches to the big online models via environment vars. In large companies t…

Same here, everyday coding in Webstorm, Oh I have a task I can offload to copilot, I open VSCode and let a Github CoPilot Agent do that. Knowing what tools are better for what really helps.

Arm amputee programmer here. There are some wild hardware solutions out there. What I found best was - a standard qwerty keyboard (I didn't want to be restricted to custom keyboards) - A learning…

jQuery has mostly been replaced by new browser apis. It was a great library that brought the web forward. It will still be around the web for decades to come. If you're updating to jQuery 4. Why …

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Appears that only people from the northern hemisphere can order this, Shame.

Using a browser devtools performance profiler could confirm this. I highly doubt there's a 5 second setTimeout in youtube. More likely switching of browser technologies based on user agent.

I've just started hanging all my shirts. Basically I have a set amount of coat hangers. If i want a new shirt I need to sacrifice another. It also makes drying way easier. Out of the washing mach…

Also used in supermarkets for planning. It's handy to see how much of product was purchased in week 34, spanning back a few years.

It's pretty common for cicd pipelines to generate static json like this to track environment info.

The Sunny 16 rule was coined as a guide when film cameras were the norm and light meters were not on all film cameras. Any relation to digital sensors is a coincidence. side note: Film in sunlight is …

It would be cool if there were multiple games within a geoguesser game. Doom, Witcher, Battlefield, Red Dead.

you're right. I only read the title and very quickly. My bad.

Changing APIs. When the front-end gets JSON from an API. We really don't know what we're getting. We need to liaise with the API team to figure out how these APIs work and when they change, …

So in theory if we wet a surface painted in Vantablack (the darkest substances known) it should become even darker.

I bought a Anki Vector about a year ago to tinker with the sdk. After messing with the sdk, I left it turned on for the duration of the year. I don't use any of the voice actions but its awarenes…