Subway Specs – Part III / / No Comments Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station is the world’s busiest train station. Its is used by over 3.5 million passengers every day. To cope with that amount of traffic the station has to be very big. It has 35 platforms, while another 17 platforms can be accessed through hallways to 5 directly connected stations without traveling outside. With over 35 million platforms and over 200 station exits it can be Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: part, Specs, Subway
Fun With Front Matter: Part 4 – Featured Posts / / No Comments It’s been a few days since my last post in this series. I’d like to blame something in specific but honestly, it’s just life. Today’s tip will – again – be short and sweet but hopefully helpful. The idea of a "featured" post is that there may be content that, no matter the age or view count in your stats, you want to highlight. It could be your first blog post. A post announcing a new job or life event. Or anything really. How can we use front matter to support this? Marking Featured Content # One approach to marking content as featured could be to simply add a featured value to the front matter, like so: ---layout: posttitle: Gamma Post 7tags: postsdate:... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Featured, Front, Matter, part, posts
The National Stereotypes Maps – Part Two / / No Comments Buzzfeed has started a new mapping trend with their AI generated images of state stereotypes. Last week Buzzfeed asked a generative AI image model to create a photograph of a person from each U.S. state, as typically perceived by a European. You can view the results in the post This is What Europeans Think of Us. I was inspired by the Buzzfeed post to create my own National Stereotypes Map. To Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, National, part, Stereotypes
Investigating IndexedDB Wrapper Libraries – Part Three / / No Comments Welcome to the third and final (for now) entry into my series looking at wrapper libraries for working with IndexedDB. I began this series earlier this month demonstrating a simple Contacts database implemented with IndexedDB. In the second entry, I demonstrated how the Dexie library made working with IndexedDB much simpler. Today I’m going to look at my last "planned" entry (I may revisit this again if I find more) in this series – using DPP, or Deep Persistent Proxy Objects for JavaScript. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: IndexedDB, investigating, libraries, part, three, Wrapper
Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site – Part 2 / / No Comments A few weeks ago I blogged about how to include RSS data in your Eleventy site: Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site. Last week, I had the honor of giving my first presentation to the Eleventy Meetup and for that talk, I took my earlier code and iterated on it a bit to show more examples and add a bit more usefulness to the tip. If you want to watch that presentation, you can do so below (and see @jeromecoupe excellent tal too!). I thought I’d also share the updates here for folks who prefer reading over wathing a video. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Content, Eleventy, including, part, Site
esbuild, part 2: Practical implementation of JavaScript bundling – Market Research Telecast / / No Comments esbuild, part 2: Practical implementation of JavaScript bundling Market Research Telecast “JavaScript” – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Bundling, Esbuild, implementation, JavaScript, market, part, Practical, research, Telecast
Milwaukee County Parks launches new app to find parks near you as part of ‘Love Your Parks’ campaign – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / / No Comments Milwaukee County Parks launches new app to find parks near you as part of ‘Love Your Parks’ campaign Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: campaign, County, Find, Journal, launches, Love, Milwaukee, near, parks, part, Sentinel
China trials ‘Deadbeat Map’ app to monitor citizens’ debts as part of social credit score system – The Telegraph / / No Comments China trials ‘Deadbeat Map’ app to monitor citizens’ debts as part of social credit score system The Telegraph China Focus: Chinese map app holds debtors in check – Xinhua | English.news.cn Xinhua Is someone in debt nearby? Court uses chat app to alert people South China Morning Post China tests opening up social credit scores to social media platform WeChat with debt map ABC News View full coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 'Deadbeat, China, citizens', credit', debts, Map', Monitor, part, score, Social, system, Telegraph, trials