/til

My TIL

Primary LanguageRuby

01/22/2016

  • WeakMaps in ES6 provide a way of doing garbage-collector safe maps

  • AppleScript can read the currently playing song in Spotify

  • How to create a simple command line tool to add to this actual list

01/24/2016

  • The smell of a first rain after a long hot period in the year is called a 'Petrichor' - this is special to me because my family and I used to live in New Mexico, and my sister and I have distinct memories of the smell of rain from that period of our lives.

  • WPEngine allows you to create redirects in the UI, and essentially allows you to use the same regex that htaccess allows

01/26/2016

  • A vector's self dot product is equal to the square of that vector's length

01/29/2016

  • This quote from Abe Lincoln: 'I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.'

02/02/2016

  • How to set up ultisnips for vim, and list all available snippets

02/03/2016

  • CSS filters are actually shortcuts to commonly used SVG filters (which allows for much easier syntax, but less flexibility)

02/05/2016

  • this in JavaScript is dependent not on the function itself, but rather on the context of the call-site of that function

02/16/2016

Note - this TIL was a habit I quite simply did not keep up. I have a much better track record of recording my podcast, Developer Tea, so perhaps that's a better place to learn more!