Disqus - Latest Comments for ericdfields

Re: Performant Web Animations and Interactions: Achieving 60 FPS

ericdfields — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:35:08 -0000

Is show/hide really that expensive? The "opacity:0 + pointer-events: none" trick above is neat, but if it's replacing a simple show/hide and there's no active animation on the page, is it "worth it"?

To answer my own question, maybe these are better styles if you have utility classes like ".show" and ".hide" in your styles.

Re: Fritalci | Can Economic Growth Last?

ericdfields — Thu, 05 May 2016 10:53:08 -0000

How are experiences not constrained by physics? The amount of experience that can happen is limited by 24 hours in a day and the number of people on the planet.

Re: Tips on Setting up Karma Testing with Webpack

ericdfields — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:32:49 -0000

Thanks for this. It was helpful.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

ericdfields — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:29:46 -0000

I've worked with Nick professionally for a few years at Boundless. Now that he's at Northeastern, it's clear that bringing innovation to higher ed is this man's calling.

Re: Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it

ericdfields — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:55:27 -0000

> From what I can tell in my tests, Apple Music is deciding itself, based on your library, that it will not add duplicate songs. For instance, I purchased a lot of Black Sabbath albums over the years, but not all of the compilations. I went into Apple Music and added a compilation album, but it didn’t all get added to my library. When I looked at all of the songs that didn’t get added, they were ones that I already had in my library.

I've had issues like this when I purchased a single or an EP by an artist who later released an album containing the same songs. I couldn't buy the full album because the iTunes Music Store thought I had some songs off of it already. I also couldn't have the full album experience until I redid all the metadata of the EP tracks to match their place in the album. It was a lot of jiggery-pokery, and I probably bought the same tracks twice a few times, but all of this is just saying that these weird symptoms have been in the iTunes Music Store for some time now.

Re: Flux For Stupid People

ericdfields — Sat, 16 May 2015 23:06:13 -0000

Shouldn't components get as much of their data as possible from props, rather than state as you mention in the closing? I'm just echoing dogma I've read elsewhere but maybe you can shed some light on that idea.

I've been experimenting with flummox which makes the stores the sole keepers of state. State is then passed on as props to listening components.

Absolutely excellent breakdown of flux!

Re: React + Flux backed by Rails API - Part 3 | Fancy Pixel

ericdfields — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:47:52 -0000

I got a lot out of this. Thank you so much. I really *understand* flux now in a way that diagram from Part 1 doesn't quite illustrate plainly.

I'm going searching for an implementation of Flux w/ less boilerplate. Any recommendations? Of course It'd be easy enough to put a lot of repetitive methods into some sort of mixin.

Re: Metoda: JBuilder # tablica! - Dokumentacja dla szyn / JBuilder (master)

ericdfields — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:01:34 -0000

Is there no way to get the index of the array item? `json.array! @people do |person,index|` would be nice.

Re: Mad Catz CTRLi Discounted Again to $49 | AfterPad - MFi Games and Controllers

ericdfields — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:38:25 -0000

I picked this up as I feel the steel series still has a minor lag issue. the ultimate test for me is any of the Sonic games. There's still the slightest lag with this one too. Is this fundamentally a Bluetooth or gamepad SDK issue? Or is it more likely that the Sonic games aren't quite right?

Re: iOS8 + Bluetooth MFi Controller Compatible Games | AfterPad - MFi Games and Controllers

ericdfields — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:20:17 -0000

Thanks. So far so good. I've noticed that the usability of this thing varies wildly across the available gaming landscape. Oceanhorn feels perfectly intuitive, never skips a beat. I should try some sort of shooter or FPS I suppose.

Re: CES 2015: Gamevice Controller Releasing in March... | AfterPad - MFi Games and Controllers

ericdfields — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:17:48 -0000

My arms are already exhausted.

Re: iOS8 + Bluetooth MFi Controller Compatible Games | AfterPad - MFi Games and Controllers

ericdfields — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:56:45 -0000

Thanks. Going to give the SteelSeries XL a chance first as I can easily return my Moga in exchange for that at a local Apple Store. Mad Catz is a few days waiting for ship. It's a shame the first year experience with these is so awful. Holds back iOS as a gaming platform for sure.

Re: iOS8 + Bluetooth MFi Controller Compatible Games | AfterPad - MFi Games and Controllers

ericdfields — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:06:51 -0000

@Kevin MacLeod I just picked up a MOGA Rebel. I ran the upgrade and have been mainly playing FFVI and Leo's Fortune. I'm running iOS8 and I do experience lag and disconnects. Since I just got it, do you recommend I return it and pick up a different controller? Maybe the Mad Cats? Thanks.

Re: 'Floppy Cloud' Is the Latest NES and Super Nintendo Emulator to Sneak onto the App Store

ericdfields — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:42:50 -0000

did a quick test of super mario 3 and super mario world with the controller. worked great! there's an ever so subtle lag but I can't tell yet if it's the controller, iOS, or the app's fault.

Re: Better Builds Begin with Broccoli

ericdfields — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:26:40 -0000

Javascript modules will solve all your dependency woes. Ordering should become a non-issue. Check out browserify.

Re: Tasty Burger Unveils Cambridge’s First Parklet

ericdfields — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:55:12 -0000

Roslindale had Boston's first parklet weeks ago: http://instagram.com/p/o8dz...

Re: Testing Your JavaScript with Jasmine

ericdfields — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:17:09 -0000

The inline and block-level code examples in this article are pretty janked up. Tested in Safari and Chrome. Can you fix? Thank you!

Re: Flowdock For iPhone Gets Push Notifications & 1-To-1 Messages

ericdfields — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:57:05 -0000

Any plans to make them a little smarter? If i'm on my desktop and in one flow and i get a ping in another flow, because i'm not in the other flow i get a push notification, even though I can clearly see that the notification happened on my desktop.

IMHO if desktop app focused, suppress all notifications. Maybe a timeout in the event of me getting up and leaving my machine on and it not falling asleep.

Re: Sous Vide Steak | ChefSteps

ericdfields — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:14:52 -0000

Some notes I took immediately after finishing my first SV steak. All anecdotal, of course (your milage may vary), and pretty much shooting from the hip (minimal editing!):

* Cook to rare (54C) if searing on a cast iron. I had my pan pretty hot — definitely smoking — but had to give each side about 3 min. Wound up cooking into the meat too much. Still medium rare by average standards, but not picturesque pink-all-the-way-through.
* Fattier pieces probably require more time. The polyscience sous-vide calculator app wanted me to give my cut of meat 2 hours and 48 minutes. I liked ChefSteps's 90 min approach better. I had a nice semi-bone-in rib eye that I cooked for 90m at 57C. While delicious, there was an awful lot of fat left around the meat. I think if I let it ride for the extra 90 minutes, that fat would have broken down better.
* Trim the fat off your meat to suit your taste, even if you get it from a butcher who cuts it fresh for you, before circulating.
* SAVE YOUR JUICES. I wish I did. After coming out of the bath, create a nice spout in the bag and pour the juices into a container. Assuming you're searing on a cast iron and basting with butter, sear the meat, remove it from the pan, add the juices to the pan and reduce to a nice sauce.

Re: ChefSteps - - New Recipe

ericdfields — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:15:07 -0000

@Rob similar. The recipe really needs to be adjusted. I got 20g powder from 2 cloves garlic and 2 whole onions. Im sure there's a ratio for how much fresh product you need for the desired amount of powder. As it stands now, I need to quadruple my onions and 2.5x my garlic.

Tangentially, I was able to get both the garlic and onions black and dry within 1.25 hours in a 375 oven.

Re: Lightning-Fast Sass Reloading in Rails 3.2

ericdfields — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:18:57 -0000

I'm in the same boat. This is fairly recent for me, as a month ago it was fine.

Livereload works fine when i run guard via `bundle exec guard`, which is good enough for me right now. @Scott Greenwald , try that.

Re: Instapaper: Your Input, Please

ericdfields — Wed, 29 May 2013 16:28:45 -0000

One more: A clever solution to dealing with a huge queue of saved articles. I'll leave it simply at "clever" because there are a lot of great ways to handle this.

Most importantly, I don't want to forget about articles that I really want to read but just got pushed down in the stack because I've had a busy month and saved 30 other articles in the meantime.

Re: Instapaper: Your Input, Please

ericdfields — Wed, 29 May 2013 16:23:07 -0000

Mine are somewhat opinionated:

* Simplify the text options in article view. Remove options for margins and line height. There's a few fundamental typesetting rules around whitespace for paragraph readability and they can easily scale with font size.
* If it will help with above, pare down the font list. One or two serif, one or two sans serif, a single mono.

Thanks guys!

Re: HDADD+ LIve at MFA Boston – Together 2013

ericdfields — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:35:17 -0000

What time :)? And the date's only in the email…

Re: HDADD+ LIve at MFA Boston – Together 2013

ericdfields — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:34:27 -0000

THERE