kevin, Author at ThisBailiwick

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June 15, 2018

CSS Top 10 Articles for the Past Month (v.June 2018)

"For the past month, we ranked nearly 1,000 CSS articles to pick the Top 10 stories that can help advance your career (1% chance). As an article ranking service for professionals, we take quality very seriously and make sure each article you read is great."

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June 15, 2018

Angular Docs

"(deprecated) /deep/, >>>, and ::ng-deep" read »

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June 15, 2018

State of React Native 2018

"It's been a while since we last published a status update about React Native. At Facebook, we're using React Native more than ever and for many important projects. One of our most popular products is Marketplace, one of the top-level tabs in our app which is used by 800 million people each month."

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June 14, 2018

Angular Docs

"Creates a FormControl instance from a domain model and binds it to a form control element." read »

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June 14, 2018

Property 'blur' does not exist on type 'Element' > document.activeElement · Issue #5901 · Microsoft/TypeScript

"GitHub is home to over 20 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together."

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June 13, 2018

Image Inconsistencies: How and When Browsers Download Images

"This year, I’ve been working closely with the wonderful Coingaming team out in beautiful Tallinn. We’ve been working pretty hard on making their suite of online products much faster, and I’ve been the technical consultant leading the project."

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June 13, 2018

How to use React (and Redux) with your crufty old CMS

"There are a lot of React (and Redux) tutorials on the web. And that’s a good thing. But most of them make an assumption. They assume you’re creating a single-page web application (SPA). It’s not a bad assumption. But it doesn’t always hold true."

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June 13, 2018

Controller namespace issue, different behavior on localhost and development server (solved?)

"We have a work-around, sort of. If both files are not in both folders, the site breaks."

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June 12, 2018

Trump celebrates Singapore accord with North Korea, but substance has yet to be revealed

"An ebullient President Trump flew home Tuesday with what he called a “very, very comprehensive” agreement with North Korea, even as lawmakers, analysts and allies congratulated the effort but questioned the substance of what had been achieved."

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June 12, 2018

Ajit Pai Is Twisting the Meaning of the “Open Internet”

"Monday, June 11, was the first day of the end of the open internet. It was the day that the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of the Obama-era network neutrality rules became official, a move piloted by FCC Chairman and Donald Trump appointee Ajit Pai."

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June 12, 2018

routerLink directive does not respect `event.preventDefault()` to prevent navigation · Issue #21457 · angular/angular

"GitHub is home to over 20 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together."

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June 11, 2018

Learning Programming Languages with Spaced Repetition

"The spacing effect shows that the most efficient way to learn material is to expose yourself to it at increasing intervals, instead of cramming. Spaced repetition learning uses this effect to show you flashcards at intervals optimised for knowledge retention."

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June 11, 2018

Becoming a dramatically better programmer

"In our first week, we were told that the RC faculty wanted to do one thing above else – to remove any obstacles in the way of us becoming dramatically better programmers. But what does that mean? What does getting dramatically better actually look like?"

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June 11, 2018

Developing a Mobile App with GraphQL

"There is no one size fits all approach to building an app. A beginner might start out with a small application with minimal functionality, poor performance, non-optimized API requests, and a codebase that will need refactoring someday."

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June 9, 2018

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

"When organizations turn a blind eye to sexual harassment in the workplace, how many people need to take a stand before the behavior is no longer seen as normal?"

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June 8, 2018

Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

"Chatbots were The Next Big Thing. Our hopes were sky high. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the industry was ripe for a new era of innovation: it was time to start socializing with machines."

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Current Project: Stone Roberts

June 8, 2018

I'm currently working on a site redesign/development for the painter Stone Roberts. There isn't anything to be seen as of yet, but there is a Github repo I'll keep updated as I go along. More info can be found on it's project page. [wp_videojs mp4="https://thisbailiwick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/D19C48CE-9BF3-4612-8073-A8689D30A623.mp4"] [wp_videojs mp4="https://thisbailiwick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/45550155-8898-48FB-B39E-AC9092DD5769.mp4"]

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June 8, 2018

Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction

"‘In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will.’ Winston S. Churchill This week Microsoft announced that it is purchasing GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock."

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June 7, 2018

Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought

"Siphoning carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere could be more than an expensive last-ditch strategy for averting climate catastrophe. A detailed economic analysis published on 7 June suggests that the geoengineering technology is inching closer to commercial viability."

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June 7, 2018

A Quick, Practical Use Case for ES6 Generators: Building an Infinitely Repeating Array

"You’ve probably heard of ES6 generators, perhaps you’ve even learned the syntax, and you may be wondering what they’re actually useful for in real life."

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