Easy Asset Access with the Cloudinary Media Library Browser Extension / / No Comments Readers of my blog will know that I’ve been banging the Cloudinary drum for years. Their awesome media capabilities allow users to optimally deliver images, video, and audio in any format and to any device. Performance, customization, flexibility, optimized delivery… Cloudinary makes media better for everyone. Another aspect of Cloudinary that I like? Their commitment to developing tools to make using their service as convenient as possible. The latest tool is the Media Library browser extension, a simple extension that gives its users access to their media in from within any tab — no need to go to the Cloudinary website itself! If you haven’t tried Cloudinary, here’s... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: access, Asset, browser, Cloudinary, Easy, Extension, library, Media
Simplify Your File Handling With Filestack Workflows (Sponsored) / / No Comments Automation is a really important skill for engineers, especially when it comes to working with various file types. The more you accept for input, and the more you automate, the better end output you can offer. Filestack’s workflows allow developers to define automated tasks using a their specialized UI. With no coding required, it’s easy to create a document workflow and scan every assignment for viruses, quarantine it until it can be reviewed, and alert the sender of the issue so that no work is late. After signing up for a free Filestack account, you can shift to creating your own workflows. When creating your workflow, you can choose from dozens of UI items that represent... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: file, Filestack, handling, Simplify, Sponsored, Workflows
12 Best JavaScript Blogs Every Developer Must Keep an Eye On – TechGenyz / / No Comments 12 Best JavaScript Blogs Every Developer Must Keep an Eye On TechGenyz “JavaScript” – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: best, Blogs, Developer, every, JavaScript, Keep, Must, TechGenyz
Testing out the new Pipedream to Get Trance Releases / / No Comments Readers of my blog will know I’m a huge Pipedream fan. I’ve been blogging about them since I discovered them and find a way to use them for so many things now it’s my natural "first stop" when I want to build a new service. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Pipedream, Releases, Testing, Trance
JavaScript Class Privates / / No Comments One of my aspects of JavaScript that drew me to it as a young developers was that its syntax was loose and I could code quickly. As you gain experience as an engineer, you start to realize that some traditional coding structure is a good thing, even if it slows you down. Using Jest or TypeScript to add typing to your JavaScript can save you from maintenance headaches and unexpected errors, for example. While those are pre-compile tools to accomplish structure, we’ve traditionally employed vanilla JavaScript patterns to mock private variables and methods in JavaScript. Did you know, however, that browsers and the JavaScript language support a specific syntax for creating private variables... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: class, JavaScript, Privates
Detect Dark Mode Preference with JavaScript / / No Comments Seemingly every website, dapp, and app offers a dark mode preference, and thank goodness. Dark mode is especially useful when I’m doing late night coding, or even worse, trading into altcoins. I’m presently working on implementing a dark theme on MetaMask and it got me to thinking: is there a way we can default to dark mode if the user’s operating system also defaults to dark mode? You can determine if the user’s operating system prefers dark mode with one quick line of code: const prefersDarkMode = window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme:dark)").matches; // true This code snippet takes advantage of the CSS prefers-color-scheme media query with JavaScript’s... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: dark, Detect, JavaScript, Mode, Preference
This JavaScript scanner hunts down malware in libraries – The Register / / No Comments This JavaScript scanner hunts down malware in libraries The Register “JavaScript” – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: down, hunts, JavaScript, libraries, Malware, Register, scanner, this
Working with Algolia’s Crawler / / No Comments I’ve been using Algolia on my blog for a while now. It’s an excellent search solution for the Jamstack and I absolutely recommend it, especially for sites where the size means Lunr may not be appropriate. While I like Algolia a lot, I haven’t really dug terribly deep into it. I went through multiple iterations of my implementation here to help deal with the size of my content and so forth, but outside of that, I kept the actual search experience nice and simple. This week, I gave a talk at the Jamstack_Berlin user group on search options for the Jamstack and that’s got me thinking more about both Lunr and Algolia. One of the things... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Algolia's, Crawler, working