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> JSDoc _is_ TypeScript This is surprisingly true in a way. TypeScript is not a language(1), it's primarily a linter-assisting overlay atop of an actual language, JavaScript. Also,…

What changed is that the very things capable of eliciting interest in programming also offer overpowering content consumption functions with huge, never ending catalogs of games, m…

Good points. A minor thing, generative art isn't necessarily abstract art, though currently almost exclusively is. (Oh and spelled Pollock.) Regarding validation, it might not matt…

In the case of asymmetric competition, a company with vastly more resources might curate a list of undisclosed problems with competitors' products, for when a major event like this…

> Loop-Blinn is fine if you want fast rendering with medium quality antialiasing For example, when using SVG shape-rendering: optimizeSpeed ? I truly hope that SVG is going to be p…

I think there are other reasons for dismissing BEM, it's quite an opinionated and shallow structuring, good for some stuff and not for others. Very HTML tag oriented, for which we …

I'd agree with it were it not for the huge difference between the view refresh latencies. Within the browser, it's near-intantaneous. Hot module reloading (which is still experimen…

Just adding it here as well: if one likes editing CSS files in Chrome Dev Tools, then activating Workspaces will save such changes into the source file. This Dev Tools integration …

An example may be, graphic designer shop gets a contract to update the company 'style guide'. It gets done and there are a lot changes that are cross-cutting w.r.t. components, sta…

> Leave data processing and business logic to the back-end, on the server In general, this is not good. Of course there are specific applications where it's useful but in the gener…

Though both are on WebKit, they use different renderers. Generally Chrome is better than Safari except on iOS where Apple forces other browser makers to use the Safari engine, I gu…

Interestingly Firefox is often quite a bit slower than WebKit based browsers even if there's not much JavaScript behind the animations, so there may be other bottlenecks. Even simp…

Yes apparently I was on 120% zoom level and therefore it worked on my machine (TM)

Yes SVG is very powerful denotation. FWIW I prefer my other current example (I'll wrap up a third one soon), procedural map generation and reflection bump map with SVG http://bl.oc…

it just uses a setInterval with 100ms so your kit might be able to do more - bl.ocks can be forked with http://blockbuilder.org/search

Google was first with a decent SVG and they were leapfrogged. But Chrome is the most used browser, and together with Safari, WebKit leads big time over the shrinking IE and FF port…

No, SVG is perfect for things like that, and very compact (example coming, or an existing one, check the header image on twitter/monfera). I'm mostly concerned about dynamic visual…

Maker here. I meant it as a way of saying good-bye to SVG as for the past years I mostly work with WebGL. A couple of other bl.ocks will be up soon. It turns out that despite its n…

Indeed, what I like about plotly is that you can start pretty much anywhere (R, Python, Jupyter, browser JavaScript, node.js, Julia, Matlab...) and get to an interactive, explorabl…

You can generally use them with 'is', for example:

D3 is great for updating / augmenting a server generated chart on the client side, with one caveat. Usually it's good practice to do the D3 DOM binding with a key (similar to the r…

There's also Shiny, Jupyter, Bokeh...

Plotly animations are coming along gradually, and Reactive Vega may be something to look at. Unrelated to these, I've been exploring real-time visualizations (and more in focus, re…

I'm contributing to plotly.js right now, which is also declarative, and I see the pros and cons of levels of denotative semantics (mostly depends on goals and library user requirem…