alexanderson

Very classy! The interactions are so delightful, and the premise of "serendipitous discoveries through experimentation" is spot on. Well done!

Flac/Opus may have benefits, but I think the Free Music Archive is optimizing for accessibility. Pretty much anybody can play an MP3 out of the box. I don't think one can say the same about Flac/Opus.

This is excellent. I plan on adapting the approach of the fundamentals course for middle school students (you go a little fast in the videos with a lot of assumptions about what your students already know, which is fine). Starting with just a <script> tag is excellent - well done!

Hello.

Https://github.com/Thorium-sim/thorium - Starship simulator controls. Think Bridge Simulators (like Artemis) meet D&D. The controls facilitate doing space missions, where one participant is a game master and the others take various roles on the ship.

I love working on the controls, and I’m learning a lot too. I’m going to start taking donations soon, but don’t plan on making a ton of money.

There are two kinds of motivation. There is the desire for the project itself and there is the desire to work on the project. I would be overjoyed if one day, I pulled from master and found that the project I’m working on was perfectly complete!

But until that day, I have to find some way to keep on plugging away: planning, coding, testing, debugging, doing art, marketing, etc. It’s one of those things that maintains momentum through good developer experience and forcing myself to spend a little time on it every day.

And one day it will be done, and I’ll be able to step back and say “Wow. I made a thing.” Honestly, I don’t know if it will be that great of a feeling. But the anticipated satisfaction of a job well done, including the approval of my customers, is something that motivates me.

I’ll add that family can be super motivating too. Of course, I want to provide for them. But working on a side project and having your wife come by and say “That looks cool” is a pretty good feeling.

That. Was. Positively. Amazing. Demoscene never ceases to astound me.

My perspective is that the government can operate that way, but the church seems to be the opposite: socially conservative but fiscally liberal. Hence the emphasis on nuclear families as well as giving freely to the poor.

As a Utahn, the most disappointing thing about this article is the racial homogeny. It's true - nearly everyone is white. But that doesn't mean that there isn't some diversity. When my father was a Mormon bishop, he would dole out orders for the Bishop's Storehouse to everyone just the same, whether they were white, black, Latino, or Asian - Made no difference to him. They got the same food, but also had to live by the same requirements - coming to church and serving in the community.

I recall one day after my dad was diagnosed with cancer. Out of the blue one of those families my dad had prepared an order for brought over a casserole for our family out of gratitude for what he did - not only for the food, but for helping him get back in their feet. And this was one of the latinix families.

My point is that I wish there were data on what this experiment would be like with the racial diversity of NYC, DC, or elsewhere. While there are Mormon congregations in these places, with the same bishops storehouses, they aren't nearly as pervasive in their communities as In Utah, so it's hard to see the effects of their efforts.

Definitely. My company has several vendors that require us to use IE and Silverlight to access their products. It's been a pain for us in IT to figure out how to support those vendor's products while still maintaining security.

I'd have to say Starcraft. The multiplayer mode with super low latency was designed to be run over 56k modems (or less). It's become a case study for the right way to handle realtime gaming networking.

Using Apollo Server, I get around authentication with an auth query which updates the context object of the query with the auth token of the user. Then, any subsequent queries can use that auth token to authenticate the user and authorize it for the query themselves.

I've also seen it where the authentication is handled by middleware before GraphQL even touches the request. I figure those two methods work for about every use case.

The hipster stack is an interesting one. Elixir + Phoenix framework, GraphQL, React.

Honestly, though, I'm doing everything with GraphQL now. It is a huge benefit for all aspects of application stack design now.

I'm a graphic design minor - it would be major, but after being rejected from my program, I decided to reevaluate my life instaed of reapplying for the program. That was one of the best decisions I've made.

I realized that it is more important to have width than depth in many circumstances. That is to say, knowing a little about a lot of things instead of knowing a lot about one thing.

For example, in my web dev work, I need to be able to cooperate with the graphic designers who provide the designs for the product to me. Being able to talk their language and understand the tools they use is tremendously helpful. I'm also able to apply the principles of visual design in my own projects instead of needing a designer to review all my work.

And I still try to do art on the side. After I changed my major, I took a printmaking class and discovered my favorite kind of art. I'm planning on doing more of that after I graduate.

I'm operating with Express on one end with React on the other. The big difference with this setup is GraphQL in the middle. It is a huge help to making sense of data flow, what with the strictly typed schema and the built in subscription model. I've also engineered my own event sourcing/CQRS framework with the intention of expanding the app with micro services eventually, but it's just one server node for now.

It's gonna happen, whether it swings to Hillary or one of the 3rd parties. Utah is demographically a Mormon (Latter-day Saint) majority, with a little over 50% of the population claiming to be members. Mormon remnants and culture tend to lean to a more conservative political viewpoint, which is why, historically, Utah has voted for the Republican Party despite many non-Mormons holding liberal views. However, the positions and character of Donald Trump have really ruffled a lot of Mormon voters. I would cite news sources if I weren't on mobile, but both the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune have written about the Mormon's disdain for Trump, in addition to speaking out against him. I think it's highly likely that Trump will not win Utah simply because he does not have the support of the majority of the voters. Disclosure: I am a Utahn and a Mormon.

I ran it using private Safari mode (akin to Incognito in Chrome). There were naturally no consequences to my Google Account, nor my IP Address.