Simplify your JavaScript – Use .map(), .reduce(), and .filter()
If you’re starting in JavaScript, maybe you haven’t heard of .map(), .reduce(), and .filter(). For me, it took a while as I had to support Internet Explorer 8 until a couple years ago. But if you don’t need to be compatible with this very old browser, you have to become familiar with those methods.
The following is a guest post by Osvaldas Valutis. Osvaldas is going to show us not only how drag and drop file uploading works, but goes over what nice UI and UX for it can be, browser support, and how to approach it from a progressive enhancement standpoint.
“I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that. We are a user rights initiative to rate and label website terms & privacy policies, from very good Class A to very bad Class E. Terms of service are often too long to read, but it's important to understand what's in them. Your rights online depend on them. We hope that our ratings can help you get informed about your rights. Do not hesitate to click on a service below, to have more details! You can also get the ratings directly in your browser by installing our web browser add-on:
Different depth of nodes will use different colour allowing you to see the size of each element on the page, their margin and their padding. Now you can easily identify inconsistencies.
Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure | Ars Technica
Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the failure of an ambitious project that involved titans like Bell Labs, GE, and MIT. Largely the brainchild of a few programmers at Bell Labs, the unlikely story of Unix begins with a meeting on the top floor of an otherwise unremarkable annex at the sprawling Bell Labs complex in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Wordpress and DropzoneJS - Latest Trending Technologies
DropzoneJS is an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews. It’s lightweight, doesn’t depend on any other library (like jQuery) and is highly customizable. Dropzone does not provide the server side implementation of handling the files, but the way files are uploaded is identical to simple file upload forms. Here is how it can be used in wordpress to make a dropzone file input :
The University of Edinburgh as well as having great students and staff, has great stuff. Since its very beginnings, the University has collected books, art, archives, manuscripts, musical instruments and objects to inspire its community in learning, teaching and research. One of the world’s great collections has been built up over hundreds of years and constantly surprises those who come to view and enjoy the items. The illustrations in this book are inspired by items and images within the collections and were collated by students during the Festival of Creative Learning Week 2019, and by staff in the Information Services Group.
Ask the A.I. to complete your ideas, and discover which text the A.I. generates Write the story you couldn’t quite find the words to complete with this easy to use OpenAI model. Input 40 words to start, and watch what the model comes up with. It’s powered by the GPT-2 774M model released on August 20th 2019 by OpenAI.
We are Juhana and Jim, two interactive fiction creators who were intrigued by the possibility space between Inform and Twine. Over the past few years we’ve been iterating on a new authoring tool called Texture. Easy to play: We created a word-on-word interaction mechanic suitable for touchscreen phones and tablets, as well as web browsers. Easy to create: Our WYSIWYG editor makes composition and design a right-brained, no code affair — right in the browser. Easy to share: Click a button to publish and publicly share your work on social media. Or download an .html file to host it yourself or share via email.
One of the reasons that certain technocrats favor native applications is their ability to store data locally on the client. HTML5 made a breakthrough by allowing web applications to store data in the browser. Although cookies are available to store data in the browsers, there are certain disadvantages to that – which were addressed with the invention of HTML5 Web Storage.
Have you or a loved one lived with insulin-dependent diabetes for 25, 50, or 75 years or more? If so, Joslin would like to recognize this achievement. This program is open to everyone. You do not have to be a Joslin patient to participate. There are no physical restrictions for these awards, however some form of documention is required. Records of the date of diagnosis with diabetes and the date of beginning insulin treatment are most helpful.
The digitization of data has accelerated research in every field. Historians have vast libraries at their fingertips while sociologists and geographers can plot any number of behavioral datasets onto their maps. Code is increasingly shared in platforms like GitHub and BitBucket and can be forked to fit even the most esoteric use cases. However, with the proliferation of data---journals, books, websites, datasets, code, etc.---the challenge becomes discoverability. How will you help people find your brilliant work?
Cubase is one of the most powerful music creation software packages in the world. With its unrivaled range of flexible tools, you can create any kind of music quickly and intuitively. It comes packed with a wide range of virtual instruments, effects and thousands of sounds. Whether you’re a professional composer or a music production beginner, Cubase provides you with everything you need for turning your ideas into music.
macOS: Use Preview Inspector To Look At Photo Metadata - The Mac Observer
You can easily view photo metadata, called Exif, using Preview Inspector. Preview is an app built into macOS that has multiple uses, like viewing PDFs, photos and more. Preview Inspector is one of those powerful, yet hidden features, that makes Preview so useful. Here’s how to use it to view photo metadata.
Online, No One Knows You’re Dead : Andrew Kalat : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Most hackers have a massive digital footprint: social media, servers at co-location sites, servers at home, overly-complicated IT infrastructure, and various other IT gear connected in crazy ways. What happens when one of us suddenly dies? How do our loved ones pick up the pieces, figure out all of our random IT crap that we’ve setup, and move forward? This talk explores the challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned as I aided in figure out the IT gear after the passing of a dear friend to the hacking community, HackerJoe, aka Michael Hamelin. I will share details of the challenges Michael’s widow and I faced, how we overcame them, and advice to better prepare your loved ones if you were to suddenly shake off the mortal coil…
Library Freedom Institute 2019 lectures: week 13, digital redlining on Vimeo
Dr. Chris Gilliard talks about digital redlining, practice of creating and perpetuating inequities between racial, cultural, and class groups specifically through the use of digital technologies, digital content, and the internet.
LandMark is the first online, interactive global platform to provide maps and other critical information on lands that are collectively held and used by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The global platform is designed to help Indigenous Peoples and communities protect their land rights and secure tenure over their lands. LandMark provides several categories of data to show the land tenure situation for Indigenous Peoples and communities, as well as potential pressures on their lands, changes in land cover over time, and their contributions to protecting the environment.
Price of insulin more than doubled over five years - CBS News
The cost of insulin for Type 1 diabetics has almost doubled over a five-year period, highlighting the financial strain that many diabetics face when paying for treatment. Type 1 diabetics spent about $5,700 a year on the life-saving drug in 2016, up from about $2,900 in 2012, according to a new analysis from the nonprofit Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI). The figures represent gross spending, and don't account for the impact of rebates or coupons, which can lower costs for some diabetics. By comparison, the cost of living rose about 6.5 percent during that same time period.
How to run a small social network site for your friends
This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies. This is because the big problems with social network sites are not technical: the problems are social problems related to things like policy, values, and power. There are still some areas where technical progress is needed, and one section of this document discusses some of those areas. Running a social network site is community building first and a technical task second. And while community building is hard work, it's often worth it. This is my pitch to you: using big social media sites is easy, but you pay a steep price for it. You should consider running your own site, which is harder, but can be extremely rewarding.
Add Query String Parameters to YouTube oEmbeds in WP - Brett Hoffman
WordPress makes embedding content easy as of version 3.5+ with the introduction of oEmbeds. This allows a content editor in WordPress to simply copy-and-paste a URL from Youtube, or Twitter, or many other services that support the format into the post editor and have it automatically pull in a video or tweet directly into the post. In this case we’ll focus in on YouTube, since YouTube has a number of parameters that you can pass in to control the output of the embedded player. Unfortunately, having to tell your editors to attach certain “query what?” things to their YouTube links that they copy pasta into the WordPress editor is a huge pain and is definitely going to fail quickly. Especially after the introduction of automagical embedding using oEmbed where they instantly see results.
The web is a wonderful and scary place, but mostly wonderful. The access to information is astounding but most of it, is only accessible to those who are without impairments. The following manuals within this camp is to get you ready for the wild forest of the Internet and make it usable for all. (Or as close as we can get!) We'll be looking at the three senses used to interact with content: vision, sound, and interaction. People with one disability, or a combination of several, greatly impacts the experience of a website or web app. Information, learning, or a specific tool shouldn't cater to one audience, but many.
Moving from textual thinking to visual thinking - eCampus News
We need to start seeing the world in different ways if we hope to make effective use of the tools of the digital age. However, our educational institutions are still locked into profoundly text-based paradigms that have limited our capacity to use and teach visual and multidimensional problem-solving skills. I see the effects of this in my students and in my colleagues. Our industrial education model is designed to teach visual thinkers to think textually. It is baked deeply into the system and starts from an early age. It profoundly limits the way we perceive the world to artificially linear tracks. Textual thinking leads us into dead ends in everything from web design to complex problem solving to deciphering our very democracy. The world is a far more complex place than it ever was. In less than a century our challenges have escalated from the local to the national to the global at a staggering rate. Our conceptual ability to cope with these challenges has not kept pace.
Feel like ads on the internet know you too well? It's because they do. Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers into thinking you're someone else.
Identifying a fake picture online is harder than you might think
You might have based your assessment of the images on the visual information alone, or perhaps factored in your evaluation of how reputable the source is, or the number of people who liked and shared the images. My collaborators and I recently studied how people evaluate the credibility of images that accompany online stories and what elements figure into that evaluation. We found that you’re far less likely to fall for fake images if you’re more experienced with the internet, digital photography and online media platforms – if you have what scholars call “digital media literacy.”
In February 2019, researchers at Princeton University analyzed ~53k product pages from some of the most popular e-commerce sites online. They discovered widespread use of "dark patterns," website designs that manipulate and deceive shoppers (New York Times article) (academic paper). This website is an independent follow-on project involving some of the same researchers. We hope this site makes it easier for consumers to find out about the sites revealed by the Dark Patterns team. Here are some of the manipulative designs documented by the Dark Patterns team.
Tying the browser more closely to operating system functionality and system hardware means that websites have more access to these resources, and that browser behavior varies depending on the behavior of these resources. We propose a new system fingerprint, inspired by the observation above: render text and WebGL scenes to a element, then examine the pixels produced. The new fingerprint is consistent, high-entropy, orthogonal to other fingerprints, transparent to the user, and readily obtainable.
