hrwgc

Download

• Tilemill (also available for Windows from this link).
• Quantum GIS, but you'll want to install the dependencies first: GDAL Complete 1.9 framework package and GSL framework
• Open Office - This is optional -- any other spreadsheet editor works, often google docs is enough.

Documentation/Tutorials

jareware

Long Live Icon Fonts!

or, a Quick PSA on icon fonts and ligatures.

tl;dr: keep using icon fonts, they are nice, just enable ligatures

These are my talking notes at the http://wwweeklies.com/ on 2015-12-04:

• This Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts post came out
• This I agree with: SVG is really nice for the Web

mapmeld

Getting Started

I recently made my first map with MapBox's new WebGL+JavaScript API. There aren't many examples of how to do this yet, even on MapBox's API page, so I'll document my own experience here.

The Van Gogh Map

My map is made of several textures taken from Van Gogh paintings. The long-term goal is to allow a user to select which artworks they want to take textures from, but for now there is just one setting.

Why are we changing maps?

kitten

With styled-components into the future

Preprocessing is dead, long live preprocessing!

This is a CFP for ReactiveConf 2017's open call for Lightning talks. If you'd like to see this talk become a reality, please ⭐ star this gist. #ReactiveConf

mavropalias

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",

  "Description" : "Node.js server",

  "Parameters" : {
    "KeyName" : {
      "Description" : "Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access",
      "Type" : "String"
    },

jevakallio

TL;DR: If you want to see me perform a spoken word poem about JavaScript in front of 1000 people (and on video), please ⭐ star this gist. If you're on mobile, you'll need to request desktop site.

JavaScript Slam Poetry

jevakallio

// paste this to chrome console on anybody's twitter page
// and it'll turn into an instant presentation :)

(function TweetPresent() {
  const presenter = $(`<div id="tpd" style=" position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; height: 100vh; width: 100vw; padding: 10vh 10vw; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: white; font-size: 5vw; text-align: center; z-index: 9999; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;"></div>`);
  const tweets = $$(`div.tweet p.js-tweet-text`)
    .map(el => el.innerHTML)
    .map(t => ({t, s: Math.random()}))
    .sort((a, b) => a.s > b.s ? -1 : 1)
    .map(c => c.t);

dennisschaaf

The Problem

wkhtmltopdf is broken and cannot render multiple fonts because of some issues around names. See wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf#2435

Workaround

1. Pick an 8 or less char name for each font and variation e.g. HelvBold, HelvLite, TimeReg
2. Every variation needs to be a separate font file, with all the details renamed in Font Forge using the short name determined before.
3. Give the font files the same short name (e.g. HelvBold.ttf)

honza

Ranking algorithm

Lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter

All implementations use 95% probability.

pos is the number of positive votes, n is the total number of votes.

Source

jquense

The 0.13.0 improvements to React Components are often framed as "es6 classes" but being able to use the new class syntax isn't really the big change. The main thing of note in 0.13 is that React Components are no longer special objects that need to be created using a specific method (createClass()). One of the benefits of this change is that you can use the es6 class syntax, but also tons of other patterns work as well!

Below are a few examples creating React components that all work as expected using a bunch of JS object creation patterns (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%20&%20object%20prototypes/ch4.md#mixins). All of the examples are of stateful components, and so need to delegate to React.Component for setState(), but if you have stateless components each patterns tends to get even simpler. The one major caveat with react components is that you need to assign props and context to the component instance otherwise the component will be static. The reason is