UA gotta be kidding
Brian recounts the sordid messy history of user-agent strings.
I remember somebody once describing a user-agent string as “a reverse-chronological history of web browsers.”
Link tags: rings
12
1loc | Favorite JavaScript single line of code
This is very handy indeed! Quick one-line JavaScript helpers categorised by type.
And, no, you don’t need to npm install any of these. Try “vendoring” them instead (that’s copying and pasting to you and me).
Currying in CSS? | Trys Mudford
I don’t understand what currying is, but Trys points out a really interesting thing about custom properties in CSS:
The value after the : in the CSS custom property does not have to be valid CSS.
That means you can use custom properties to store arbitrary strings of text, which can then be combined within a calc() function, at which point they get evaluated.
A Webring Kit | Max Böck - Frontend Web Developer
Inspired by Charlie, here’s a straightforward bit of code for starting or joining your own webring.
Webrings | sonniesedge
Charlie muses on ol’ fashioned web rings …and the cultural needs they fulfilled.
We suffer from homogenous dirge in most of our contemporary web presences. Having a personal website has become a rarer and rarer thing in this time of social media profile pages.
However, recent months have seen a surge in personal websites and blogging amongst some members of the web tech community. This is something that we urgently need to encourage!
Let’s bring Fan Sites and webrings back! - bryanlrobinson.com
As the commercial viability of the web grew, we saw more and more users become consumers and not creators. Many consumers see websites as black boxes full of magic that they could never understand. Because of this, they would never think to try to create something.
This is a shame. We lost a little piece of the magic of the web when this culture came about.
A call to action to create a fan site about something you love. It would be an unmonetisable enthusiasm. But it’s still worth doing:
- The act of creation itself is fun!
- Sharing something you love with the world is worthwhile.
- You’ll learn something.
So here’s the challenge:
- Create a Fan Site.
- Help someone create a Fan Site.
- Create a webring.
Brighton Brains
A directory of the regular science, technology, and creative events happening in Brighton.
List of Brighton & Hove Design, Development, and Various Other Tech / Nerdy Meetups
An up-to-date list of Brighton design and dev meet-ups. There’s quite a few!
Essential Vanilla JavaScript Functions
The title is overkill, but these functions ported from PHP to JavaScript could be useful (especially for dealing with arrays).
MTA.ME
The New York subway schedule converted into sound by treating each line as a string.
Trendwhore » Win & Regine Join Springsteen on Stage [VIDEO]
Arcade Fire and Bruce Springsteen together at last.
In Saturn’s Shadow
This picture of Saturn, taken from the Cassini probe, is literally incredible: it doesn't look real.