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I think they meant Jodrell Bank,a radio telescope with an astronomy based visitors centre in Cheshire in the uk https://www.jodrellbank.net/

Douglas Adam’s electric monk?

Cyberpunk also has the red pill / blue pill and deja vu cat from the matrix.

For web apps, chrome has a throttling tool in the dev tools. Not sure how sophisticated it is, but I've used occasionally to recreate bugs only noticed by clients on slower connect…

Not forgetting Noah Webster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary#Noah_We...

As a designer + developer, it always frustrates me to see a design not translated into code well. If this is built using css, there really aren't any excuses for not making this lo…

From someone who briefly used 'bower', which was JS dependency management using git, relying on git is a lot worse. Github repos can vanish, NPM will only let repos be deleted if t…

Word of warning, their readme says 'Some of its APIs are not "finalized" and will have breaking changes over time as we discover better solutions.' I started using this library sev…

https://www.vimeo.com/ too, including their api.

Actually it also works in IE11, as it should. Flex does work in IE11 with some known bugs - https://caniuse.com/#search=display%20flex

I've been using matter.js to help encourage my kids to learn to program in light of the recent school closure here in the UK. Excellent resource that gives you interesting instant …

Hope they haven't got rid of the killer feature - the offline dinosaur game.

Looks like other people agree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972

They've removed `www.` from website url's in the address bar. Actually knowing if I'm on the www subdomain can be very useful, especially as a web developer checking if domains hav…

Getting acceptance was much easier than I expected. We used coffee-script a lot before which has a bit of an overlap with Ruby/Crystal, which helped. We've since moved to using typ…

Speed was never a real concern of ours. Node is more than quick enough. The big issues for us are code clarity, runtime errors and memory usage. We like to run our sites inside doc…

I wrote the article, happy to answer any questions.

Crystal lang - it's awesome