A Year of Wildfire in Europe / / No Comments In July Europe witnessed its largest wildfire in 23 years. The Dadia forest fire in Greece burned 97,000 hectares and killed 20 people. The large number of wildfires in Europe this year follows the even larger number of fires last year, a year which saw the second largest total burnt area this century. So far.Czech news website Aktuálně.cz has analyzed satellite data of European Union wildfires Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Europe, wildfire, year
Unveiling 15+ Essential Tools & Resources for Web Designers and Agencies in 2023 (Sponsored) / / No Comments You’ve visited countless websites, and now you’re designing your own. Stop and think for a minute about what you’ve liked and didn’t like about some of those you visited. Was it the front page, the layout in general, or the functionalities that either met with your satisfaction or turned you off? The helpful tools and resources for designers presented here should help you avoid what’s bad and capture what’s good in your own design creations. They will also save you the trouble of having to devote what could be many hours searching for tools and resources for designers you believe you should have and use. One or more of these should help you deliver work in a timely manner that engages... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2023, Agencies, Designers, essential, resources, Sponsored, tools, Unveiling
The City Map Game / / No Comments I really like the game SF-Street-Names, which I reviewed Monday in the post The Streets of San Francisco Game. In fact I liked SF-Street-Names so much that I immediately started trying to see if I could replicate the game for a different city. In Monday’s post I linked to my quick demo map Denver Street Names, which was a very quick hack of a SF-Street-Names type game for Denver.Today I decided Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Game
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
Integrating Intl with Alpine.js Mask / / No Comments I’ve been using Alpine.js for quite a while now (although I still make silly mistakes, see the p.s. at the end) but haven’t yet looked at the "official" plugins. Listed in the docs, those plugins include: Intersect – a simple hook to recognize when an element is visible (I plan on blogging about this later) Persist – a simple hook to add persistence to Alpine data (another plugin I plan on blogging about) Focus – a way to manipulate focus Collapse – a simple UI plugin for collapsible content Morph – another UI plugin that attempts to transform one set of HTML into another (I honestly don’t quite get this one – yet) And finally,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Alpine.js, Integrating, Intl, Mask
Geolocating General Surovikin / / No Comments The investigative journalists at Bellingcat have been developing some important tools and methodologies for geolocating images. On Wednesday they applied their investigative geolocating powers to identify the location of General Sergey Surovikin. On September 4th a photograph of Surovikin was posted online, accompanied by the message “General Surovikin has emerged. He’s alive and well, home Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: General, Geolocating, Surovikin
Mapping the Great Kantō Earthquake / / No Comments 100 years ago yesterday, on September 1st 1923, the Great Kantō earthquake struck Japan. The earthquake struck near midday, at a time when many people were cooking lunch. In Tokyo, during and after the earthquake, fires spread across the city. In the 46 hours after the quake around 40% of Tokyo burned to the ground. Japanese newspaper Nikkei has marked the 100th anniversary of the Great Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: earthquake, GREAT, Kantō, Mapping
Use XHR/fetch Breakpoints! / / No Comments Web debugging tools are so incredibly excellent these days. I remember the days where they didn’t exist and debugging was a total nightmare, even for the simplest of problems. A while back I introduced many of you to Logpoints, a way to output console.log messages without needing to change the source files. Another great breakpoint type is XHR/fetch breakpoints, allowing you to pause execution when an AJAX call is made. Let’s look at XHR/fetch breakpoints! To set an XHR/fetch breakpoint, open your browser’s Developer Tools and click the Sources tab — the same tab you open for other breakpoints. Under the XHR/fetch accordion item, click the big “+” button.... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Breakpoints, XHR/fetch