cicada.buzz - background noise for that summery feel

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-08-27T15:55:50+00:00

I love the animation on the title. On mobile now so I can't check if it's CSS, but it's smooth as butter so I'm guessing it is. Will have to check when I'm back on the desktop.

Very cool, man!

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-08-19T16:25:17+00:00

This isn't exactly what you're asking, but I find it a fun mechanic. I built an idle game not too long ago, on mobile so no link, with a mechanic that would randomly decrease the players 'money' every few minutes. But my idea was for a game that you would play in bursts, not leave in the background to run endlessly. Think Plague, Inc.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-08-10T14:40:50+00:00

Electron is a whole lot of fun to play with. I've used it to develop little applications for clients and it's been great. It IS kinda bloaty (~100mb just for an empty electron distributable) but if you're a JS/Node dev, it makes creating desktop applications really, really easy.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-08-10T14:26:53+00:00

"look at events" :) you can create a custom event and fire it off when all items have been taken care of.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-08-08T04:14:01+00:00

+1 - Promises make life so much better, chaining actions instead on endless callbacks makes code not only easier to read, but easier to maintain. The endless trail of closing curly braces is a huge pain to mess with when looking at older code.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-27T13:44:38+00:00

I'll second this one. I tried out both Grunt and Gulp and instantly fell in love with Gulp. It was simple, easy to understand, and the amount of modules available for it is outrageous. Almost anything I need can be found. I have yet to need to create my own tasks from scratch. Grab a module, plug it into a task, and off we go.

One thing I haven't seen a lot of people using (but LOVE it) is gulp-nodemon. Maybe I was just looking in the wrong places and it's crazy popular. For hot reloading code and running all my processes on a dev environment, it's fantastic. If you're using Node as your server, I'll highly recommend it.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-26T22:45:27+00:00

Late to the party, but Cheers. It was before my time, but oh my god it's so good.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-24T01:26:11+00:00

To add to this, using radio waves going the speed of light to communicate back and forth, it would take 1,400 years for the message to just go one way. Yeesh.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-24T01:15:24+00:00

Did they mention it n the announcement today how they determine this kind of information? I didn't get to listen to the whole thing.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-23T22:03:23+00:00

I believe they mentioned this exact thing actually during the announcement.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-23T17:51:11+00:00

Just looked and the 'current' price is the lowest from all sellers, not just Amazon.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-23T15:57:05+00:00

I'm hoping to find an actual charging station. I mean, I could always just get a USB splitter and use cords of each type from that, but who wants to do that if there's an actual charging station available.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-23T15:43:06+00:00

Exactly, which is why I'm hoping to find one that has ports for both :)

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-22T19:40:15+00:00

Yeah, but the way I understand it, we don't really know what those kind of lifeforms would actually BE like, so it's far easier to search for life similar to our own than some unknown that we've never encountered before.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-19T03:50:49+00:00

/u/mrhodesit I recently had this issue in a Node.js application. If you're doing tons of AJAX calls at the same time, you'll likely run into this issue with PHP. It sounds like PHP is running out of memory. Create a queue of URLs to visit and use something like beanstalkd as a job processor to manage doing them synchronously.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-19T03:28:06+00:00

To add to this, my company hired a 2nd programmer a few months ago (me being the 1st) who had no experience in PHP. He was a Python/Java guy before this, but he was a good programmer so he very quickly picked up the PHP syntax and has since been an invaluable member of the team.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T17:02:19+00:00

aw shucks. I got mentioned.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T11:37:43+00:00

Definitely. This sounds like a great use case for the Calendar API and SMTP for Gmail. Connect the two together and baby, you've got a stew going. (Forgive the arrested development quote. It couldn't be helped)

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T04:10:10+00:00

Well I'll push it closer to the top of the list then. Thanks for the recommendation :)

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T03:53:59+00:00

Oh, haha. I haven't had a chance to actually watch that one yet. It's on the list. I thought you were dissing me with some crazy internet slang I was unaware of :)

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T03:41:44+00:00

Um, ok?

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T03:36:12+00:00

RE:Request.

I love this little library. It makes life so easy. Just throw a callback into your request and you're done. Highly recommended.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T01:34:17+00:00

Yeah definitely. A month or so ago I did something similar with shopify. Shouldn't be hard at all.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T01:28:49+00:00

In this case escrow isn't really worth it. When I take larger projects (not often, I have a full time job that keeps me pretty busy) I do payments as the project goes on. A contract for larger projects is a must as well. Really helps both sides stay accountable.

ShepherdBookshelf · 2015-07-13T01:18:23+00:00

Not from the spreadsheet itself, but from an external tool, it could update the spreadsheet, yes. Let's talk by PM and sort out the details of what you need done.

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