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Using Mailboxes in Elm

Max Goldstein | July 30, 2015 | Elm 0.15.1

In Elm, signals always have a data source associated with them. Window.dimensions is exactly what you think it is, and you can't send your own events on it. You can derive your own signals from these primitives using map, filter, and merge, but the timing of events is beyond your control.

This becomes a problem when you try to add UI elements. We want to be able to add checkboxes and dropdown menus, and to receive the current state of these elements as a signal. So how do we do that?

The Bad Old Days

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module Main where

import Html (..)
import Html.Attributes (..)
import Html.Events (..)
import List
import LocalChannel as LC
import Signal

-- Model

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: utf-8

require 'rubygems' unless defined? Gem # rubygems is only needed in 1.8
require_relative "bundle/bundler/setup"
require "alfred"
require 'json'

basic_user     = ENV['BB_USER_NAME']
basic_password = ENV['BB_PASSWORD']

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Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

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Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

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