Annalee Newitz:
When we imagine future tech, we usually focus on the ways it could turn humans into robotic workers, easily manipulated by surveillance capitalism. And that’s not untrue. But in this story, I wanted to suggest that there is a more subversive possibility. Modifying our bodies with technology could bring us closer to the natural world.
See, about a year or so ago, I took inspiration from Kevin Smokler to set about listening through my entire music library alphabetically by song title.
I think I’m going to do this! I have a paltry 10,602 songs so it should take a mere 29 days of continuous listening.
Excellent research by Jeremy Wagner comparing the performance impact of React, Preact, and vanilla JavaScript. The results are simultaneously shocking and entirely unsurprising.
This is a great step-by-step explanation of event handling in JavaScript!
If you ignore the slightly insulting and condescending clickbaity title, this is a handy run-down of eight browser features with good support:
addEventListener(),scrollTo(),setTimeout() and setInterval(),defaultChecked property for checkboxes,normalize() and wholeText for strings of text,insertAdjacentElement() and insertAdjacentText(),event.detail, andscrollHeight and scrollWidth.This is absolutely fascinating—listen live to radio stations all over the world by rotating our planet in your browser.
There’s something really addictive about eavesdropping on the world’s airwaves like this.
This is a really great short explanation by Chris. I think it shows that the really power of JavaScript in the browser isn’t so much the language itself, but the DOM—the glue that ties the JavaScript to the HTML.
It reminds me of the old jQuery philosophy: find something and do stuff to it.
Before there was radar, there were acoustic mirrors along the coast of England—parabolic structures designed to funnel the distant sound of approaching aircraft.
This makes me so happy! Matt is using Huffduffer. Specifically, Matt is using Huffduffer together with Instacast and this is how he’s doing it.
A cute little mashup: find out what you were listening to according to Last.fm when you were posting to Twitter.