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Matt Layman: You Don’t Need JavaScript
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This talk explores why JavaScript is not good fit for most web apps.
I then show how most web apps can do dynamic things using htmx. htmx is an extension library to make HTML markup better.
I present examples of AJAX fetching and deletion. The presentation includes a dynamic search and how to implement infinite scrolling with a trivial amount of code.Planet Python
‘Stormgate’ is a new free-to-play RTS from the director of ‘Starcraft 2’
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In 2020, Starcraft 2 production director Tim Morten left Blizzard to start Frost Giant Studios. At Summer Game Fest, he finally showed off what he and his team have been working on for the past two years. We got our first look at Stormgate, a new free-to-play real-time strategy game that runs on Unreal Engine 5. Morten didn’t share too many details on the project but said the game would feature two races at launch.
Frost Giant features some serious talent. In addition to Morten, former Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne campaign designer Tim Campbell is part of the team working on Stormgate. Frost Giant plans to begin beta testing the game next year.
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One Reporter’s Road Trip Nightmare Proves the Electric Vehicle Skeptics Right
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As much as the environmentalist crowd and proponents of "green" renewable energy enjoy touting the newest technological innovations as something of a godsend, many Americans remain skeptical of the advances. Even the seemingly unstoppable climb in gas prices fails to move many who simply don’t believe their neighbor’s Prius is the solution to their fiscal woes. Perhaps it’s just intransigence. Maybe Americans simply aren’t prepared to adopt the new technology simply because we’re stuck in our ways–who doesn’t enjoy hearing the purr of a finely tuned vehicle or the roar as you stomp the gas at a light that has only just turned green.
But it may also be that people have weighed to pros and cons, looked into the capabilities, and made an educated choice based on all the relevant factors. If they haven’t, or if they are still thinking about making the move to an electric vehicle, the story of one journalist’s nightmare road trip might be the final bit of information they need to make a decision.
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Rachel Wolfe prepared and planned for a recent trip with all the glee of a child counting down the days to Christmas the year before finding out Santa doesn’t actually exist. She is hopeful to the point of giddiness, unaware that the fantasy she’s been told is all about to come crashing down, in due time.
She’s responsible about the planning, outlining the entire itinerary, and planning every stop to charge her rented Kia EV6. She’s so sure about her plan that she invites along her friend who has a hard time to meet–a shift at work at the end of the trip.
What Wolfe and her friend Mack find out, however, is the truth.
The reality of the electric vehicle infrastructure immediately slaps the duo in the face. Not only are chargers apparently divided into quick chargers and, well, not, but among those chargers there exists an extremely and ultimately disconcerting caveat to the moniker "quick charger." This categorization is given to those machines capable of supplying from 24-350kW, a range that proves troublesome as it translates into far longer charge times when the machine you’ve stopped at is on the lower end of that spectrum and even worse when it can’t even meet the minimum standard, like the machine Wolfe came across in the first leg of her trip.
From there, it only spirals. Suffice it to say, deficiencies in the charging infrastructure as well as flaws in the vehicle itself, which especially suffers through inclement weather, repeatedly deal blow after blow, heartache after headache all the way to the end. What’s more, it would seem the universe was attempting to warn the two women about their decision, as person after person along the way voiced apprehension, skepticism, and regret regarding the purchase of electric vehicles.
At one point, to conserve energy, Wolfe and her friend frantically work to cut power consumption to prevent a breakdown on the road in the middle of a storm. "To save power, we turn off the car’s cooling system and the radio, unplug our phones and lower the windshield wipers to the lowest possible setting while still being able to see. Three miles away from the station, we have one mile of estimated range."
Don’t worry. This isn’t about to turn into a horror movie where they break down in the middle of the night or something. They make it to the next charging station but only right in the nick of time.
"At zero miles, we fly screeching into a gas-station parking lot. A trash can goes flying and lands with a clatter to greet us."
They also manage to make it back to Chicago in just enough time for an emotionally drained and physically exhausted Mack to walk into a shift at work, at least she didn’t miss it.
In the end, even Wolfe was forced to come to terms with the reality of the present state of EVs and their support, obviously coming to the conclusion that they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
"The following week, I fill up my Jetta at a local Shell station. Gas is up to $4.08 a gallon. I inhale deeply. Fumes never smelled so sweet."
While I’ve editorialized quite a bit and condensed her story down to just a few snippets, you can rest assured the entire story is there. And for those of us who have honestly kept an eye on the burgeoning electric vehicle industry, absolutely none of this comes as a shock. The tech is getting there, and I will even concede that it may well become something great and reliable in the future, but that future is not yet upon us. So, while politicians and celebrities laugh at Americans still driving around in gasoline-powered vehicles, pointing at the skyrocketing gas prices and laughing at those forced to pay them, the truth is that even those financially capable of making the change to an EV will find themselves wrestling with the same issues encountered by Wolfe during her brief trip.
Now, I just moved. The drive was about 350 miles one way, and I did it on a single tank of gas. And while even my trip suffered from a few spats of rainy weather, I never had to stop or sacrifice my AC or unplug my phone, turn off the radio, or worry about if my windshield wipers were going to suck up the last bit of fuel in the tank. And if I had run low on fuel, I knew that any gas station could fill me up. And the high prices notwithstanding, that’s a level of peace of mind no EV driver can say to have. Or rather, not if they want to pull out of the station in under an hour.
Perhaps what is necessary is not to force Americans to make the transition to EVs; this would only serve to stress an already weak infrastructure. What we need is more responsible policies to lower gasoline prices, make driving more affordable, and provide the requisite amount of time to build that infrastructure if and or when that transition occurs naturally.
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You Thought ‘Bugdom’ and ‘Nanosaur’ Were Lost Forever
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These days, the only pre-installed game you’ll find on Mac is an exciting, strategy-based war simulator pitting royal factions against one another. And by that, I mean Chess. But now you can get unique, fun, classic games like Bugdom, Nanosaur, and Cro-Mag Rally. I thought these titles were lost for good, but as it turns out, you can still play them.
I grew up with the iMac G3. To the outside world it certainly wasn’t a gaming machine, but to me it was a premiere PC. I was able to play the games I wanted to play, which were usually the Mac’s two Harry Potter ports (those soundtracks, though), but my favorite part of the G3 was the pre-installed titles: I didn’t have an N64, PlayStation, or GameCube, but I had Bugdom, Nanosaur, and Cro-Mag Rally. And that was alright with me.
What happened to Bugdom, Nanosaur, and Cro-Mag Rally?
In case you don’t have the fond memories of these titles, here’s a quick summary: Bugdom has you playing as a pill bug traversing 10 levels to save your world from an invasion of enemy ants. (It’s great, I promise.) In Nanosaur, you’re a dinosaur armed to the teeth, outrunning other dinosaurs in an effort to steal their eggs. (Again, it’s great.) And Cro-Mag Rally is a kart racer game that’s set in the ancient world, complete with “time-appropriate” karts and weapons.
These games wouldn’t be a sell in 2022, but they did push some boundaries for Mac gaming and 3D development back in the day.
It doesn’t end there, though: The iMac G5 also shipped with two unique titles: Nanosaur 2, a sequel to the original dino shooter (this time starring a murderous pterodactyl), and Marble Blast Gold, in which you controlled a marble through a series of progressively challenging race tracks to the finish line. To give credit where credit’s due, Pangea Software developed most of these games, plus plenty of other games you could purchase separately, while Marble Blast Gold was developed by GarageGames.
The problem with these old games is they were written for Mac hardware (PowerPC) that is no longer supported. The original game files exist, but if you download them to your Mac today, you won’t be able to open them. With the exception of mobile ports (which I’ll cover below), I thought most of these games were essentially lost forever. Luckily, there’s a way to replay them on your current hardware, through both mobile ports, as well as total rewrites of the games’ original code.
How to download classic Mac games, or play online
The two titles available as Mac downloads right now are Bugdom and Nanosaur. These games have been rewritten by developer Jorio for macOS, Windows, and Linux, which allows you to play the original games as they were on your current machine. To install these games on your computer, follow the links above, then choose your particular OS from the list of download links. It’s a nostalgia trip, for sure. Do I miss playing these things on that classic CRT display with the matching keyboard and hockey puck mouse? Sure. But after years of not being able to play Bugdom outside of my own memories, I’ll take it.
The easiest one to play, though, is Marble Blast Gold. The game and its sequel were ported by developer Vanilagy as web apps, meaning you can play right in your browser. Head to this site, then click the marble in the top left to choose Marble Blast Gold. You’ll find all levels already unlocked, plus over 2,000 custom levels designed by other players.
Cro-Mag Rally and Nanosaur 2 haven’t been rewritten for modern Macs, unfortunately, but you can play the games’ ports on iOS and iPadOS as a $1.99 download (there’s also a free version of Nanosaur 2 with ads). Nanosaur 2 is mostly how I remember it, but I’m a bit disappointed with the Cro-Mag Rally situation. Don’t get me wrong—I’m thrilled this game is ready to play in 2022 in any form, but this version isn’t the one I really want. Cro-Mag Rally on Mac OS X came with additional game modes, plus a settings pane that let you adjust the physics of the game. I’d love to experience those parts of Cro-Mag Rally again, but it doesn’t look like that’s happening anytime soon.
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WATCH: This gang of cowboys saved Oklahoma drivers from a loose cow on the interstate, but the news guy’s play-by-play is what has me in stitches 😆👌
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The commentary from the news guy makes this video:
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Akaunting 3.0
We are a podcast-first media company based in Estonia and Turkey. We are required to follow two different tax regimes in two countries. Akaunting helps us focus on what matters to grow our business
instead of being tangled in invoicing details. And their App Store is beneficial if you are trying to customize the bookkeeping process.
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In Honor Of Pride Month Chick-Fil-A Waffle Fries Will Be Seasoned With Salt From Lot’s Wife
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U.S.—Chick-Fil-A has finally come around to celebrating pride month this year. The fast-food company has announced that throughout June, all waffle fries will be covered in salt from Lot’s wife.
“Other companies go in for rainbow flags and squeezing in PRIDE everywhere they can, but we wanted our celebration of pride month to be a bit more…biblical,” said Dan Cathy at a recent press release. “Now with every delicious, perfectly seasoned bite of waffle fry customers will be reminded how God celebrates Pride.”
“Wow! That IS salty. Man, I needed this reminder to flee from sexual sin,” said Chick-fil-a patron Brenda Lovelace. “I don’t want to end up as a pillar of salt just like Lot’s wife!”
Much to Chick-fil-a’s surprise, this move to faithfully honor pride month has been met with intense backlash from the LGBT community. “WHAT?! You’re supposed to celebrate by changing all your bags to rainbow flags and putting Drag Queens in the playplace ball pit!” said queer-activist Brandley Xenus. “This doesn’t count!”
At publishing time, Dan Cathy also announced that if you tell any employee the secret phrase “I take kids to Drag shows,” they will celebrate by placing a millstone to your neck and tossing you into the ocean.
Are you a woman? It’s hard to tell these days. Watch our well-researched video to find out whether you are indeed a woman.
The Babylon Bee
Inside an Abandoned Mega Resort
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Built in the early 1970s, the 900+ room Carolando Motor Inn was, for a time, the largest hotel near Disney World. It was part of a larger development that never came to fruition, and after a successful run as a Hyatt, and a failed reopening, it saw its final guests in 2012. Bright Sun Films takes us on a tour of its water-logged ruins.
The Awesomer
Blow-Molding a Boat
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This fascinating video from GWIN TECH shows how a factory quickly cranks out lightweight plastic boats. The blow molding process involves filling a plastic bladder with hot air and then stamping them together with giant dies while the plastic is still pliable.
The Awesomer