There is actually a subreddit of pictures of bread stapled to trees. It’s entertainment, I guess? Or post-ironic art maybe.
It’s been sampled in over 700 songs, Wikipedia says.
For me personally, I know every single person asking me a question can’t play as well as I can and never will, so no matter what you say or what you write, you’ll never light a candle to me. That’s how I deal with it.
Naomi Osaka: Grand Slams want ‘meaningful improvements’ & to ‘advance mental health’
I finally got around to playing with Squoosh, an experimental web app from the Google Chrome team that compresses images in the browser. To test it out, I screen captured the Squoosh site to test Squoosh. (This movie would be called PNG-ception, y’all.)
The screen capture resulted in a 144dpi 340kB PNG file that I dragged and dropped onto Squoosh and trusty ol’ ImageOptim. These were the results:
On the surface, the ImageOptim output looks miles better. But I just went with Squoosh’s defaults and my ImageOptim settings have been tweaked over the years. I also did this dirty test in between meetings and that’s not enough time to explore Squoosh’s options and features. It works great on mobile, exports to WebP & AV1F, and… can automate it all on the command line with NPM. I sense my weekend slipping away from me already…
A micro-workshop from our friends at Root Verb to writing your own user manual.
If you type out somebody’s work, you learn a lot about it. Amazingly it’s like music. And from typing out parts of Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald – these were writers that were very big in my life and the lives of the people around me – so yea I wanted to learn from the best I guess.
Hunter S. Thompson
So while drowning in Preact.js and Reef research for a project, I saw a fetch() method somewhere. One new tab led to another, and I found out just how far behind my JavaScript was.
In the process, I also learned things like const and var and let go of my fear of Promises and Terry Venables thenables by avoiding them completely with Async-Await.
What I wanted to do was to move away from XMLHttpRequest towards Fetch to reduce render blocking. So this is how I used to do load in my JSON bits before:
function loadContentFromExternalFile() {
var requestURL = "/my/data/file.json";
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("GET", requestURL, true);
request.responseType = "json";
request.send();
request.onload = function() {
var retrievedData = request.response;
if (typeof retrievedData === "string") {
retrievedData = JSON.parse(retrievedData);
}
doSomeThingsWithMy(retrievedData);
}
}After porting to the Fetch API, the same function looks like so:
async function loadContentFromExternalFile() {
let requestURL = '/my/data/file.json';
let reqResponse = await fetch(requestURL);
var retrievedData = await reqResponse.json();
doSomeThingsWithMy(retrievedData);
}It’s asynchronous, easier to read, there’s lesser code, and no need to use a stupid function name where XML is in all caps but HTTP is ‘Http’. Does it perform better? Time to learn how to make the most of console.time().
There’s a mindset shift where people are increasingly looking to brands to solve societal problems
Marketing That Our Collective Future Depends On
Can’t Get You Out of My Head, a documentary by Adam Curtis (not the Kylie Minogue song).
If you have a login redirect loop issue on your WordPress site and recently activated a reverse proxy or a load-balancer, you need to add some constants in your wp-config.php file.
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
// in some setups HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO might contain
// a comma-separated list e.g. http,https
// so check for https existence
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'], 'https') !== false)
$_SERVER['HTTPS']='on';