Svelte stores are great for managing state in an application but when combined with modern browser features. they really shine. Let’s take a look at how I implemented localStorage in a recent project with an annotated sample file: $stores/local.js Throughout the rest of the app, the “goalStore” (and therefore, the localStorage object) can be accessed […]
If you’ve been following along with any of my recent posts, you’ll likely have noticed that I’ve been working on something. It hasn’t been a secret but I also haven’t advertised it until now. In this post, I’d like to share with you a little bit about that project. If you’d like to see or […]
‘Automating’ comes from the roots ‘auto-‘ meaning ‘self-‘, and ‘mating’, meaning ‘screwing’.
I’ve been playing around with Svelte and SvelteKit recently. So far, I’m a fan but one thing that bothers me is how styles are managed. See, way back in the day when I wanted to build a website, I would create the style of that website in a single file called a Cascading Style Sheet […]
On March 7th, 2022, the developer known as RIAEvangelist pushed a commit containing a new file dao/ssl-geospec.js to the node-ipc Github repository, for which, they are the owner and maintainer. This code, along with a subsequent version, were not typical of this project. The node-ipc module is a JavaScript module used to facilitate local and […]
For roughly the past 8 years, I’ve programmed primarily in PHP. In that time, a lot has changed in web development. Currently, many jobs and tools require some working knowledge of JavaScript; whether it is vanilla JS, Node, npm, TypeScript, React, Vue, Svelte, Express, Jest, or any of the other tens of thousands of projects […]
I’ve recently done some work on a personal project that I have put off for far too long. The project itself is a chat bot for moderating Telegram chat groups but this post isn’t about that project. Instead, it will focus on how I simplified setup of the development environment using Docker Compose. I don’t […]
This is a fun quick one that you can do right in the Firefox browser, like I did! Open up Firefox, press F12 to open the developer tools, and open the scratchpad. If you don’t see it, don’t worry; you can show it in the Toolbox Options under Default Developer Tools. As the title says, […]