joshfarrant

https://farrant.me/coffees/

The tilt of the globe on that page changes throughout the year to match The Earth’s tilt when viewed from from The Sun. The initial rotation of Earth is correct for the time of day too. This means that, when you load the page, you see The Earth as The Sun currently sees it.

I’m not sure anyone has ever noticed, and I’m sure my calculation isn’t perfect, but I enjoy watching it change over the course of the year.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with the site in the last year-or-so. I’ve had a personal site for well over a decade now, but this is the iteration I like the most. Probably because this is the first time I’ve just built a playground for myself, and not tried to conform to what a site “should” be.

A Skeptic’s Guide To Functional Programming With JavaScript

https://jrsinclair.com/skeptics-guide

I’d recommend it for functional-curious JS devs like myself.

Give it 8-or-so years and they'll be in real trouble

I hate how ableism is so prevalent on the web and amongst engineers. This website is a beautiful way to let users explore the data interactively. There’s absolutely no reason it couldn’t also be made accessible so everyone could appreciate it and explore the timeline of the page and the messages communicated therein.

As nice as the page is, the lack of accessibility comes down to laziness and complacency on the side of the author imo.

If you appear to be purchasing from Turkey (Türkiye), for example, then you’ll only be paying 29.99 Turkish Lira, or about £0.90, per month.

Well worth it for an ad-free experience (and picture-in-picture) in the native app imo.

> There was more publicity about Farrant and Manchester when rumours spread that they would meet in a "magicians' duel" on Parliament Hill on Friday 13 April 1973, which never occurred.

I’m sure services must exist which consume articles and can read them aloud with high quality test-to-speech, tracking of how far through an article you’ve listened, and so on.

React Native opened the door to allow me to build apps and, realistically, I'm not going to spend the time battling through trying to get native git working through React Native. If there's a native developer out there that wants to tackle this problem and wrap it up in a nice JS module then I'd be in your debt!

I’ll be honest, I didn’t spend too much time with Workflow before Apple acquired them. I’m hoping that the community that’s grown around Shortcuts, and the ever more interesting things that people are doing with them, will help convince Apple to continue adding more and more powerful features to the app. Full control over system-level features would be incredible for power users.

I've not explored importing a Shortcut from a URL to be honest, I may look into that later.

EDIT: That doesn't work either.

https://imgur.com/a/NmHcPY2

There is an ‘Allow Untrusted Shortcuts’ option in the Shortcuts section of the Settings app, but as far as I can tell this currently has no effect. Hopefully enabling that toggle will, in the future, allow the import of .shortcut files directly into the app.

At the moment the future of Shortcuts JS is uncertain. In the latest (iOS 13) betas of the Shortcuts app Apple have removed the ability to import Shortcuts from a file, only allowing them to be installed from the iCloud Shortcut sharing service. I’m hopeful that this feature will be added back in when the Shortcuts app comes out of beta in a few months. If not, then unfortunately Shortcuts JS may be dead in the water.

If you want to read a bit more about how Shortcuts JS came to be, then take a look at the medium post I wrote when I launched it. https://medium.com/@JoshFarrant/creating-ios-12-shortcuts-wi...

I'm happy to announce that Shortcuts JS finally has a proper home! The only real source of information on the library before now was the README on GitHub, so it's nice to have a better looking place to learn more about the library.

I've also spent a bit of time building a Playground into the site, so you can now play around with Shortcuts JS right in your browser! Downloading a Shortcut from the Playground doesn't currently work on iOS. I'll be adding support for that in the near future.

Any feedback on the site would be greatly appreciated!

As you'll see, we're about 10% of the way through implementing all of Apple's built-in actions into Shortcuts JS. If you'd like to help us get just a bit closer to 100% then I'd love to have you as a contributor! Adding an action only takes a few minutes and I'm more than happy to help you get started. Plus, you'll get pride-of-place in the Contributors section!

Any questions let me know!

Shortcuts JS allows you to build Shortcuts using JavaScript, which you can then Airdrop (or otherwise share) to your iOS device. That .shortcut file is then automatically imported into the Shortcuts app and the Shortcut you built with JS is then on the device exactly as if you’d have built it through the app. No JS ever runs on your phone using Shortcuts JS.

Shortcuts JS and Scriptable are solving different problems and don’t have any crossover at all.

Hope that helps clear it up!

I’m very excited to release something I’ve been working on for the last month-or-so, Shortcuts JS.

Since Shortcuts was released with iOS 12 earlier this year I’ve been really interested in the idea of building Shortcuts with code, rather than with the Shortcuts app. After a bit of hacking around I figured out a way to do it, and so started building Shortcuts JS.

Hopefully this is something that others find as useful as I do!

Happy to answer any questions!

That's $1 for every year since the Big Bang.