Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin’s book Clean Code, adapted for JavaScript. This is not a style guide. It’s a guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in JavaScript ..read more

Excited to see this upcoming group exhibition: Sat Mar 4, 2023 – Sat Mar 18, 2023 Opening Reception | March 4, 7-9PM With clay as their medium, Alejandra Almuelle, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Terra Goolsby, Pat Johnson, Tammie Rubin, and Ariel Wood create fictional narratives, offer social commentary, and construct objects that defy easy categorization. Clay Matters reflects the remarkable diversity that the material offers including its mythologies, socio-political implications, ancestral traditions, and practical functionality ..read more

Luke D Davis: I dedicated my lab at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus to ushering the archaic field of dye chemistry into the modern era. When I received that email in 2015, we had just discovered how a simple chemical modification could make dyes brighter and last longer. As is often the case in our discipline, we patented the idea and planned to see if companies would license and commercialize the technology; in the meantime, we shared our initial batches of dyes within a small network of collaborators. But now the word was getting out, and email requests were picking up. And for the firs ..read more

Sebastián Escalón for CNRS: NASA plans to return to the Moon in 2027. Yet to get there, the astronauts will have to travel a little bit further than their Apollo 11 predecessors: about an extra two metres! This is quite simply because our satellite moves a few centimetres further away every year, due to the tidal force exerted by the Moon on the Earth. The first person to understand this celestial mechanism was the son of the great Charles Darwin, George. In 1880 he postulated that the gravitational pull of the Moon deformed the Earth’s surface by creating a bulge that does not directly point ..read more

Michael Roy on VMWare’s Blog: On Apple Silicon, we’ve introduced our first round of features for Windows 11 on Arm. In this release VMware Tools provides virtual graphics and networking, and more is still to come. With certified and signed drivers Windows 11 looks fantastic, and adjust the resolution to 4K and beyond!   Note that Fusion on Apple Silicon must run the Arm variant of Windows 11, and it does not support the x86/Intel version of Windows.  However, for users who want to run more traditional win32 and x64 apps, Windows 11 on Arm has built-in emulation to run ..read more

Eugenio Tampieri providing deep research into bringing older Macs into the modern development workflow: However, I wanted git to get some developement done on this machine. So I installed Xcode from the Tiger DVD, downloaded and copied on the PowerMac the current snapshot of git and ran make. It didn’t work. After an evening of trial and errors (lots, in facts), I’ve finally come up with this invocation ..read more

Gerard K. Cohen on Twitter: I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. ? When given the chance, Elon Musk immediately fired teams responsible for improving the differently abled and disabled access to the platform, the powerful, and the global conversation. Musk fired the inventor of the alt tag…is there some universe where that person wouldn’t be more qualified to work at Twitter than Musk himself? Will Twitter become a service unusable by those who are reliant on screen reader technology and other accessibility affordan ..read more

Article provided by Houston’s Rice University: Their living bioelectronic sensors can help. A team led by Rice synthetic biologists Caroline Ajo-Franklin and Jonathan (Joff) Silberg and lead authors Josh Atkinson and Lin Su, both Rice alumni, have engineered bacteria to quickly sense and report on the presence of a variety of contaminants.  Their study in Nature shows the cells can be programmed to identify chemical invaders and report within minutes by releasing a detectable electrical current ..read more

Rodrigo Copetti’s practical analysis of Nintendo’s most interesting platform: Already faced with the difficult challenge of replicating the triumph of the Wii, Nintendo’s new product also needed to save its loyal customers from the temptation of cheap smartphones and tablets. The result was a console that combines radical innovation with cost-effectiveness. In there, users found imaginative interaction methods while developers had to deal with the legacy technology underneath them ..read more

Guilherme Rambo has written a technical deep-dive and a proof-of-concept app proving what Apple has said is impossible: TL;DR: Any app with access to Bluetooth could record your conversations with Siri and audio from the iOS keyboard dictation feature when using AirPods or Beats headsets. This would happen without the app requesting microphone access permission and without the app leaving any trace that it was listening to the microphone. Seems like a massive security bug in the Apple product ecosystem. Let’s hope it gets fixed soon ..read more