Automation December

The end of the year is a good time to slow down and reflect on what we’ve done this year.

We get a little more time to ourselves and our families, and together we disengage from our usual tasks and responsibilities —at least in part.

Francisco

Aug 2, 2017

HTML and CSS reconsidered

A small collection of code snippets that make you go hmmmm

I recently updated my résumé. What better opportunity to showcase my favorite web development tricks?

Francisco

Aug 30, 2016

Number is Ratio

Braids of resonance weave through every fractal bit in spacetime. Moduli overlap in resonance and prime superposition yielding families of functional disambiguators.

Numbers, as we know them, are ratios.
For example, 5 is 5/1 or 5:1.

We typically compare numbers sharing the same ratio: 1.
For…

Francisco

Aug 17, 2015

Teachers should be great writers (of HTML)

Learning, as a psychological activity, also evolves as the product of individual and social evolution. Our species becomes more knowledgeable and able to quickly learn anything, so the expectations for learning increase too.

Francisco

Mar 24, 2014

wish: a tiny promise

The JavaScript Promises feature arrived in browsers natively around 2014. (See also: current support for promises)

Example: Fetch location, then weather data

I. With callbacks, not Promises

Francisco

Sep 26, 2012

Asynchronous library loading with jQuery.Deferred

A common pattern for asynchronous library loading, without the use of script loaders (requirejs, etc).

var your_library = 'can be FB (facebook) or google or whatever';

jQuery.when (window[your_library] ||…

Francisco

Jun 30, 2012

timeout and interval

Three ways to look at animations

I. Using CSS

[CSS3 animation shorthand (w3/spec)]

@keyframes once { /* something */ }
@keyframes repeat { /* something */ }

#thing { animation:once 3s }…