Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When designing interfaces, break down the common design elements (buttons, form fields, layout components, etc.) into reusable components with well-defined interfaces. That way, the next time you need to build some UI, you can write much less code. This means faster development time, fewer bugs, and fewer bytes down the wire. Prop Validation # As…
How JavaScript Event Delegation Works content One of the hot methodologies in the JavaScript world is event delegation, and for good reason. Event delegation allows you to avoid adding event listeners to specific nodes; instead, the event listener is added to one parent. That event listener analyzes bubbled events to find a match on child…
The famous Selfie Rat. Are the Internet’s most cherished viral rat videos the work of a mysterious woman who trains rats to do her bidding for an elaborate series of YouTube stunts? Possibly. Meet Eric Yearwood, an actor and member of the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) improv theater. He says he was paid $200…
Photo An investor as an electronic board halted the display of stock market data at a securities brokerage house in Beijing. Credit Rolex Dela Pena/European Pressphoto Agency HONG KONG — The market turmoil in China spread around the world, as global investors grew more anxious about the country’s currency and the health of its economy….
Well, I’ve waited a few weeks to write my “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” review and finally, after multiple viewings and numerous vibrant discussions, I feel that I’m ready to give this movie the review it truly deserves. I gave the film a ton of time to sink in. I analyzed the story structure and…
cache hit 1120:single/related:7dff8eb70e30692066cf888c64f5c744 empty Five years ago this month, Larry Sanger caused a stir when he launched a fork of Wikipedia, the site he helped create in 2001. Sanger believed Wikipedia had fatal weaknesses that could only be fixed by making a clean break from the past. He had devised a new editing process he…
I Consider a simple and deceptively important question: What exactly is the Republican Party, anyway? One possible answer to this question — more commonly held than one might expect at first blush — is that the Republican Party is a group of people very loosely bound by little more than an arbitrary shopping list of…
The key question: How is one to attempt to do technocratic politics in the face of a massively dysfunctional Republican primary electorate and legislative right wing? Tod Kelly: Broken Elephants, Part I: Donald Trump and the Triumph of the Conservative Media Machine: “If the only candidates willing to support rather than disparage their own political party……
paging_filter Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron told C-SPAN that the paper could become a truly international news organization under the leadership of Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos. Baron made the comments during an interview that is scheduled to air on C-SPAN Sunday at 8 p.m. C-SPAN published two excerpts of the interview on Youtube. Before…
On the executive team at Tim Cook’s Apple Inc., everybody’s equal. Except for Cook himself. The CEO aside, the company awarded its top five executives about $25 million each last year, including $20 million of stock awards and $5 million in salary and cash bonus, according to a proxy statement filed Wednesday. Cook received a…