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That's a real shame. Personally I thought it was a great article and the concept of the stem struck a chord. The trick with posting this sort of stuff (or finding out someone else …

We've put out a major new release of JsPlumb recently, with a modernised API and dedicated diagram/2d chart engines (and a new name), and one of the decisions we made was to make i…

It is true that web components can have properties and accessors like any object. But what you cant do is pass anything other than a string to a web component's attributes in the m…

I love to read W.G. Sebald. For several years I'd been on the lookout for a book called The Emigrants by the Swedish author Moberg, but the author's surname had never really stuck …

I've poked at web components on and off over the years and never been satisfied with them, but it was only recently that I took the time to put my finger on what exactly my fundame…

>I am awake and aware of this status. I really enjoy this state, but I find it hard to keep it going for very long. Pretty soon I think about how great it is that I'm not thinking,…

The point of this article is to steer people away from GoJS. It reads as a dupe of a prior article of theirs: https://www.jointjs.com/blog/jointjs-vs-gojs but without any direct re…

That's a good idea, because no, currently only the node's border color indicates rank, not their position. I could get an even denser data-ink ratio with this...

Yahoo Pipes was the direct inspiration for jsPlumb, name and all, back in 2009. We were surprised they hadn't open sourced the UI and decided that somebody should make something li…

This is a visualization we created for a blog post back in 2018 and decided to resurrect for 2022. You can see at a glance a bunch of information about the progress of each group -…

Whenever I get negative comments about my open source endeavours, such as this from a well-known internet guy: https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/520671451829907457 I retweet th…

Yes, exactly. The story of how that came to pass is really infuriating.

During my university years I used to bore everyone I could with this idea. I became quite obsessed with it and spent a lot of time working on simulations, the basic idea being that…

I jumped up and down about this to Slack over the course of a few emails, having some paid workspaces and a couple on the free plan that I use(d) for family. Eventually I got one o…

which is great!

yes the 'N' shape is caused by where the control points for that curve are placed. the api allows you to change that value when you make a connection; i think the yellow connection…