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edwinjm

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Frontend Webdeveloper from the Netherlands.

http://www.bitstorm.org/

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edwinjm··on Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
Maybe better announce this after Sweden joins NATO?
edwinjm··on A Tale of Two Feet
I’m pretty sure the GPS tool can be switched to meters by a toggle in the settings.
edwinjm··on Recursive Game of Life
But how long do you have to wait to know it's infinite? ;-)
edwinjm··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
I see a new song coming: Bahamian Rhapsody

"Mamaaa, life had just begun, But now I've gone and thrown it all away"

edwinjm··on No but why this web isn't good?
Really?
edwinjm··on No but why this web isn't good?
Yes. Unless you’ve no problem with becoming obsolete.
edwinjm··on CodeMirror 6.0 Stable Release
Seems very nice, but why can’t I find a demo? Even when I click examples, there is a description and code but no editor.
edwinjm··on Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract
Same for Europe. You should receive what you could reasonably expect to receive, even without reading the fine print.
edwinjm··on EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Heh, if you're looking for a good example of Technical Debt…

Yes, already in 1995 Unicode was an established standard (even Windows 95 started to support it). The bank should have known it would be a requirement in the future.

edwinjm··on Something special is happening in Barcelona
The bikers are a minority because the roads are dominated by cards. If you want to change that, you have to start somewhere.

Is it possible? Yes. Please come to the Netherlands and see for yourself.

Or watch the video's on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes

edwinjm··on Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
It's pleasure to work with compared to one or two years ago
edwinjm··on Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?
Loading JavaScript from an external website is not "just someone making a stupid mistake".

It means they don't have their security in order, they're a bunch of amateurs and their banking license should be revoked.

edwinjm··on A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot
Do not use classes to mark something as selected. People using screen readers won't know whether something is selected. Use aria attributes like aria-selected instead.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/states_and_properties#aria-se...

edwinjm··on Colony is a platform for community collaboration
I browsed the website and I still don't know what colony is. I understand it has something to do with crypto currency. is it a wallet? Is it a miner? Is it a game?

This is a good example of how not to make a website.

edwinjm··on We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)
Then you're doing it wrong. With async-await, asynchronous programming becomes quite easy.
edwinjm··on We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)
"but Node.js itself is based around async callbacks for the simplest stuff with no easy way out, which makes it worth avoiding".

Huh? Async code is so powerful. You can use promises instead of callbacks. And you can easily make a async call "synchronous" by adding the await keyword in front of it.

edwinjm··on Dutch antennas unfolded behind the moon
"De maan is nu van ons" ;-)
edwinjm··on I created a study plan for web developers to become software engineers
I graduated as a software engineer and now I'm a web developer…
edwinjm··on Why I Switched from Visual Studio Code to JetBrains WebStorm
Haha. I've coded in plain text editors for years and now I'm using PHPStorm and I'm so much more productive with all the tooling it provides. Refactoring is so much easier, resulting is cleaner and easier to maintain code.
edwinjm··on Experimenting with Bluetooth in JavaScript in web, hybrid and React Native apps
If you think that any leaking will be used to spy on you, you'll better deactivate bluetooth completely (seriously).

I you know of any real (not theoretical) threads, let us know. Until then I (we) enjoy the convience of modern technology.

edwinjm··on Experimenting with Bluetooth in JavaScript in web, hybrid and React Native apps
I don't understand. Because you can't do a couple of things, it's not production ready?

What about programming your remote from your desktop without having to install programs and drivers? And the producer not having to develop software for various operating systems? (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux...).

Think about timer switches. Setting up the timers with your phone is easier than on the switch itself. And it's probably cheaper to produce.

It's just too bad Apple has turned from an early adopter to a slow follower regarding Web API's which makes it harder for manufacturers to go the Web Bluetooth route.

edwinjm··on Experimenting with Bluetooth in JavaScript in web, hybrid and React Native apps
Why do you think there are no safeguards? Why do you think this is terrifying?
edwinjm··on Swc – Fast JavaScript to JavaScript compiler
But why? For IE11? A browser for which support will end next year?

All current browsers support ES2015 already. If you really want to support the few users still using IE11, you can use Babel. Why invest many hours in a project to make this faster? And that will be obsolete in two years?

edwinjm··on Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
Be aware that if you want to follow this roadmap, everything in it will be different when you're half way through.
edwinjm··on An Astronaut Accidentally Called 911 from Space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
edwinjm··on How to dump 3000 pounds of confetti on Times Square
For the rest of the world using the metric system: that's 1361 kilo.
edwinjm··on Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
Most manufacturers send a repair person when the product is out of warranty? I don't think so.
edwinjm··on EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen
I think the advantage of Adyen is that you don't need a new account. It supports payment processors that are used all over the world.
edwinjm··on Spaniards face ham shortage as Chinese market gets taste for jamón ibérico
I think you're right. Everybody knowns parmaham, but much less serranoham. While similar, the first is from Italy and the second from Spain.
edwinjm··on Spaniards face ham shortage as Chinese market gets taste for jamón ibérico
At the same time European movies had to cut down on the showing of breasts to suit the US market. We think that's kind of amusing. Imagine kids seeing breasts! The horror!
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