cris-ward

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by cris-ward 2y ago
I think they meant Jodrell Bank,a radio telescope with an astronomy based visitors centre in Cheshire in the uk https://www.jodrellbank.net/
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by cris-ward 3y ago
Douglas Adam’s electric monk?
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by cris-ward 3y ago
Cyberpunk also has the red pill / blue pill and deja vu cat from the matrix.
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by cris-ward 3y ago
For web apps, chrome has a throttling tool in the dev tools. Not sure how sophisticated it is, but I've used occasionally to recreate bugs only noticed by clients on slower connections.
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by cris-ward 3y ago
Not forgetting Noah Webster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary#Noah_We...
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by cris-ward 3y ago
As a designer + developer, it always frustrates me to see a design not translated into code well. If this is built using css, there really aren't any excuses for not making this look as slick as the visuals. Especially when the design
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by cris-ward 5y ago
From someone who briefly used 'bower', which was JS dependency management using git, relying on git is a lot worse. Github repos can vanish, NPM will only let repos be deleted if they have no direct dependencies also on NPM. So yo
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by cris-ward 5y ago
Word of warning, their readme says 'Some of its APIs are not "finalized" and will have breaking changes over time as we discover better solutions.' I started using this library several years ago and have eventually had t
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by cris-ward 5y ago
https://www.vimeo.com/ too, including their api.
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by cris-ward 6y ago
Actually it also works in IE11, as it should. Flex does work in IE11 with some known bugs - https://caniuse.com/#search=display%20flex
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by cris-ward 7y ago
I've been using matter.js to help encourage my kids to learn to program in light of the recent school closure here in the UK. Excellent resource that gives you interesting instant feedback. Reminds me of learning Basic in the 80's
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by cris-ward 7y ago
Hope they haven't got rid of the killer feature - the offline dinosaur game.
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by cris-ward 8y ago
Looks like other people agree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972
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by cris-ward 8y ago
They've removed `www.` from website url's in the address bar. Actually knowing if I'm on the www subdomain can be very useful, especially as a web developer checking if domains have been setup correctly. Reminds me of when wi
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by cris-ward 9y ago
Getting acceptance was much easier than I expected. We used coffee-script a lot before which has a bit of an overlap with Ruby/Crystal, which helped. We've since moved to using typescript on the front-end and crystal on the back e
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by cris-ward 9y ago
Speed was never a real concern of ours. Node is more than quick enough. The big issues for us are code clarity, runtime errors and memory usage. We like to run our sites inside docker containers so they're easy to reproduce from dev to
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by cris-ward 9y ago
I wrote the article, happy to answer any questions.
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by cris-ward 10y ago
Crystal lang - it's awesome