javascript JS code-splitting with ES modules in the browser Recently the New York Times shipped an interactive built with native JavaScript ES modules, using Rollup.js instead of Webpack to provide a 25% reduction in JS shipped. This was really interesting to
javascript JS things I never knew existed I was reading through the MDN docs the other day and found these JS features and APIs I never knew existed. So here is a short list of those things, useful or not
uglify Transforming Async, Await JS and minifying using Uglify Async and Await makes asynchronous code so much cleaner and nicer to work with. It is widely supported by all the latest versions of modern browsers, including Node v7.6+. See can i
webpack Using Workbox + Webpack to precache with Service Worker Workbox is a new project from Google that makes service worker use-cases such as caching, background sync and queueing of analytics whilst offline easier to code. "Workbox is a rethink [on] our
javascript Debugging WebSockets using JS Proxy Object Debugging WebSocket connections with JS Proxy object is easy and requires surprisingly little code. Proxies allow you to set "traps" which can listen for new operator calls ("construct"), function
javascript Using Rollup.JS to create JS modules Using Rollup.JS to create JS modules and libraries is easy, it can easily output AMD, CJS, ES, IIFE and UMD JS formats with minimal configuration. Its plugin structure really nice too, you
docker Create your own custom RetroPie image Building your own custom RetroPie image can be really slow, so I created a simpler way to do it using Docker and bash scripts - introducing docker-build-retropie-image! Why Creating custom prebuilt images was
HTML5 Record to an Audio File using HTML5 and JS Pure Native HTML5 Audio Recording is here and has been for a while, no more flash needed! Don't get too excited though, it still requires a bit of work to support it in
babel Reduce your JS payload when using polyfills in Babel Are you importing the babel polyfill like... import 'babel-polyfill'; But only need the odd function like Object.values from ES2017? Then maybe you can reduce the size of your JS bundle by installing
logstash Elasticsearch - Extract logstash logs So you have sent all your logs from logstash to your elasticsearch instance, now they are stored safely and with Kibana on-top to query, filter and visualise them beautifully. This post is about
kibana Kibana 4 - Import and Export Visualizations and Dashboards with Elasticdump Kibana 4.0.0 does not allow you to save and load JSON visualizations and dashboards through its interface, Kibana 3 had an option to do this. This missing feature is planned to
My First Ever Program Sometime in the '90s I started to learn to program with BASIC on a VTech laptop. I quickly got bored of all the other games on it and started an obsession with trying
Initial Commit And hopefully the first of many. I'm no writer but I really love to read about new technologies, hardware and programming. So my future posts will no doubt be about exactly the same