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matthoilandon Tom Petty has died

Chances are that most of the software you use every day was created by a developer with Tom Petty blasting in their ears.

matthoilandon Show HN: BotEngine – Easy tool for creating chatbots

Props for a fresh, clean design. The docs are fantastic, easy to read, and doesn't contain verbose technical bloat. Overall excellent design and UX execution.

matthoilandon Medieval Fantasy City Generator

Just spent time in Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Germany) – this generator nailed that kind of city layout.

matthoilandon Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components

Tl;dr; Ember is often overkill for a simple app. Glimmer is a lightweight framework, similar to VueJS with tiny build sizes. Being part of the Ember ecosystem, a simple Glimmer app can grow as needed to a full Ember app. "NPM your way to Ember" was the motto they used today at EmberConf. As an Ember AND Vue fanboy, this is cool.

matthoilandon Gwen Ifill has died

A brilliant response without being condescending. Thank you.

matthoilandon How Ancient Humans Reached Remote South Pacific Islands

This is old news. We've known since 1830 that a man named Nephi built a boat, and his father Lehi was given a golden compass ball called the Liahona that directed them from the Arabian Peninsula to South America where they built a massive civilization. After 400-500 years a curious man named Hagoth built another boat and settled Polynesia. It's all documented in the historical tome called the Book of Mormon. [Source: Former Mormon :)]

matthoilandon Font Awesome 5

This video alone merits my support. Well done. Well done.

matthoilandon Making Human Settlement of Space a Reality

Am I the only one who gets the joke?

matthoilandon Can smiling make you happier?

It seems this article is more about research techniques over the years than it is about smiling.

matthoilandon Create React Apps with No Configuration

Also don't forget: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/ember-electron One command to wrap your Ember app in Electron.

matthoilandon Create React Apps with No Configuration

> Some features, such as testing, are currently missing. This is an intentional limitation, and we recognize it might not work for everybody.

With Ember CLI you get a great testing setup with Qunit. While I prefer Mocha over Qunit, I'm at least glad that testing is a first class citizen in the CLI.

matthoilandon New Cities

Reminds me of Walt Disney's original plan for Epcot, with pedestrian-only on the surface, and trains and supply trucks underground. You can find his presentation (very Howard Stark-like) on Youtube (v=sLCHg9mUBag).

matthoilandon Wood carving tools overview

More fun with bowl carving with Roy Underhill. http://video.pbs.org/video/2365554475/

matthoilandon “Swift will be open source later this year”

So, who's gunna write the first HTTP library for Swift?