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Re: Harold Cohen and AARON—A 40-Year Collaboration

DaveEveritt — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 09:09:41 -0000

I was fortunate enough be working as an artist using technology at a UK university around the turn of the last century when Harold Cohen (and other pioneers) were invited to talk to a few of us independent researchers. I asked him about the programming language but only dare answer "no" when he asked if I was a programmer (I was using Apple’s HyperScript and JavaScript!) then he briefly explained why he chose LISP for the AI capabilities. His unique dedication to AARON inspired me to continue with art-tech-code projects with fresh enthusiasm.

Re: Ruby read json file to hash

DaveEveritt — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 15:41:27 -0000

if the structure was

"name" { "title": "Ruby In Rails", "url": "https://rubyinrails.com", "posts": { "1":" strftime-time-format-in-ruby", "2": "what-is-gemset" } }

How would I access a specific post? data_hash['name']['posts']['1'] seems to fail?

Re: The Best Open Graph Image Size (Stolen From Top Websites of 2018)

DaveEveritt — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 12:45:29 -0000

Thanks! One point - is the ideal resolution 72 or 144 pixels/inch? Oh, hang on (bit of research) it does not matter: https://www.photoshopessent...

Re: Blogging with nanoc

DaveEveritt — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:24:54 -0000

I'm still happily using Nanoc 4 for some pretty complex sites, but found your post because I felt like starting a blog. Are you still blogging with Nanoc?

Re: 2020 Design Trends

DaveEveritt — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:18:23 -0000

Please do the e-book! I share it with web design students every year, but can't do this with videos - too long and wordy. I need to cherry-pick, open the sites mentioned and show the code and functionality.

Re: You SHOULD Learn Vanilla JavaScript Before JS Frameworks - Snipcart

DaveEveritt — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:11:11 -0000

Great article, I often quote it when answering "which JavaScript framework should I learn?"-type questions on Quora. The vanilla vs JQuery example could also—to answer JQuery arguments about brevity—show a pure JS shortcut function `const quall = (slctr) => { return document.querySelectorAll(slctr) };` so you can just do e.g. `quall(".mydiv")`?

Re: Installing MySQL-Python on OS X with brew | Blog | Blog page | Web design by Carl Topham

DaveEveritt — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:06:22 -0000

It seems mysqlclient has replaced MySQL-Python, and - from experience on a project that used to use MySQL-Python - works fine under Python 2.7. So `pip install mysqlclient` worked fine, where `pip install MySQL-Python` (which hasn't been updated for years) threw up a pile of issues.

Re: Cities can go completely renewable — and here’s how

DaveEveritt — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 10:54:05 -0000

There could be a map based on the Global 100% RE campaign showing which cities - based on how well they are achieving their goals - are going to be most desirable for moving to/living in over the next few decades.

Re: A 10 minute primer to JavaScript modules, module formats, module loaders and module bundlers

DaveEveritt — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:39:26 -0000

Sure. Instead of an IFFE like this:


    (function(){
      'use strict';
      code_here;
    })()

In ES6 an unnamed 'object block' has the same effect (immediately invoked, isolating variables) and is easier to read:


    {
      'use strict';
      code_here;
    }

Caveat: I can't vouch for the correctness of this approach, see A plain block works as an IIFE in ES6

Re: Creating a Speedy UX using Skeleton Screens

DaveEveritt — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 13:01:05 -0000

I was hoping for a "how-to" example. I realise this will change for various technologies/frameworks, but a very simple working example (say something using a large API e.g. https://unsplash.com/develo... ) with a skeleton screen while the data loads would be good. Our app uses spinners, but I like the subtle Facebook greyscale wireframe approach. This all works well as long as: 1. you realise it's temporary; 2. it lasts no longer than a few milliseconds.

Re: A 10 minute primer to JavaScript modules, module formats, module loaders and module bundlers

DaveEveritt — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:07:38 -0000

After reading up on this, I just found that putting code from a former IIFE into an empty object {} has the same effect in all modern browsers that support ES6 of keeping code out of the global namespace. I wonder if this approach has a name (apart from the "empty object pattern")?

Re: I Love My IIFE - Greg Franko

DaveEveritt — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:32:26 -0000

After reading up on this, I found that putting code from a former IIFE inside an 'anonymous' object {} has the same effect in all modern browsers of keeping my code out of the global namespace. I wonder if this approach has a name (apart from the "empty object pattern") and in your opinion are there any issues with it? Ah, hang on. I just realised it's fine in ES6. No `var`s allowed :-)

Re: Haroopad - The Next Document processor based on Markdown

DaveEveritt — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:27:06 -0000

only one thing missing for me: definition lists from Multimarkdown. I use them all the time!

Re: 10 Most Common macOS Sierra Problems and How to Fix Them

DaveEveritt — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:28:46 -0000

Just updated to Sierra on my MacBook 2010. Beachball everywhere, even while sending error reports to Apple. Can't open some apps (VS Code, Atom, Shoebox. Not tried others yet). Install took hours, App store update to Xcode has been installing with '2 mins' remaining for over an hour.I don't really want to have to jump through PRAM resent hoops and the like just to keep working. It's too much. I want to die.

Re: Building Ember Data Apps with Firebase

DaveEveritt — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 11:08:06 -0000

Nice tutorial - I've been following a similar path with emberfire but `ember install firebase` threw "Error: Cannot find module 'q'". I updated node, tried `npm cache clean` and `npm install q`, but `ember install firebase` then threw "Error: Cannot find module '../function/makeIterator_'". I finally found `npm install --save-dev ember-cli-emberfire` on the npm docs which install, using bower (long-story-short) went okay.

Re: JavaScript Frameworks in 2016

DaveEveritt — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:10:39 -0000

Ember not a thing? https://www.discourse.org/faq/

Re: How Blaze Works - Meteor's Reactive Templating UI

DaveEveritt — Tue, 03 May 2016 10:13:34 -0000

This is great if you want to understand Meteor's inner workings, but for the place I'm at with Meteor it's like trying to teach me to drive by describing the internal combustion engine :-)

Re: How to Install MySQL and the Python MySQLdb Library (on a Mac)

DaveEveritt — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:39:55 -0000

With a Homebrew-installed MySQL, you could link to `libmysqlclient.dylib` which symlinks to the current versioned lib in the same directory (`/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.7.9/lib`), perhaps better than linking explicitly to the versioned lib?

Re: Scientists Can Now Make Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other

DaveEveritt — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:24:24 -0000

Here's a direct link to more info: http://www.scripps.edu/news... (and why are people so rude to each other online, instead of being kind and helpful?)

Re: The death of QuarkXpress?

DaveEveritt — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:32:21 -0000

Quark XPress (9,10) is still a very good application. Although my printer uses it, I always find it easier to generate quality PDFs from Quark for them to print directly. It also handles e-books nicely. On top of all that, I'm wary about throwing my lot in with Adobe, and getting a monthly/annual licence slapped on me.

Re: Developers are from Mars, Designers from Venus – A question of metaphors

DaveEveritt — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 11:28:31 -0000

It's not such a big gap these days. Many people can handle both (I think this really took off in the RoR days) and there's often a continuum from dev to design.

However, the missing discipline that serves to connect the two is the information architect who appreciates both the constraints of code and the principles of good design.

I often look through the 'people' list of many startups, only to see: dev, dev, senior dev, ceo, designer, senior designer, finance, marketing, more marketing… and *not once* have I seen 'information architect'. Sigh.

Re: TDC Talk: Sean Clark and Iain Nicholls

DaveEveritt — Mon, 19 May 2014 10:22:29 -0000

Is this the correct Iain Nicholls: http://www.iainnicholls.com/ ?

Re: Sean Clark - The Evil Mad Scientist WaterColorBot

DaveEveritt — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:00:33 -0000

Harold Cohen for the rest of us?

Re: Win an iPhone 5c in the Color of Your Choice

DaveEveritt — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:41:49 -0000

Uh, like, here's my comment to get an extra entry. And that.

Re: The iPad You Have To Hold To Believe

DaveEveritt — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:38:57 -0000

Ah, I see: 'leave a comment' to get an extra entry - so this is why all the dumb, vacuous comments!