Let’s build a datatables component that allows a person to search, filter, sort and manipulate the query string. This component will demonstrate the power of Livewire, as building a datatables component the traditional way would require a significant amount of JavaScript.

View the source code for this episode on GitHub.

Published on Sep 16th, 2020.

POTD: A-10 Thunderbolt II with GAU-8 Avenger 30mm Rotary Cannon

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– Flying above is a U.S. Air Force

A-10 Thunderbolt II

assigned to the 51st Fighter Wing during a RED FLAG-Alaska over the Yukon Training Area in Alaska in 2019. As you may know, the A-10 Aircraft is what happens when you build a gun that you want to fly around with. In this case, the gun is the

GAU-8 Avenger 30mm rotary cannon

, and they also managed to find some space to add some bombs and missiles depending on the mission.

British Army Staff Sgt. Robert Leonard, British Army Headquarters 1st Artillery Brigade Joint Terminal Attack Controller, views a feed from an A-10 Thunderbolt II

The GAU.8 is one of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown.

Republic of Korea Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) observe as an A-10 Thunderbolt II provides close air support (CAS) during RED FLAG-Alaska 19-2 in the Yukon Training Area.

All pictures by U.S. Air Force, photo by Senior Airman Isaac Johnson.

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If you were watching the virtual 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards last night, you no doubt caught the debut of a new trailer for WandaVision, the first standalone series to be released in Phase Four of the MCU. The studio offered a sneak peek last year during D23 Expo 2019, Disney’s annual fan extravaganza. Lacking any actual footage, that teaser was just snippets of The Dick van Dyke Show interspersed with snippets of the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) from the various MCU films. At the time, I was skeptical of the concept, but this new trailer is quite promising and gives me hope that Marvel can pull it off.

WandaVision is meant to be a kind of sitcom/epic superhero mashup, with Kat Dennings reprising her role as Darcy from the Thor films, alongside Randall Park reprising his Ant Man and the Wasp role as FBI agent Jimmy Woo. Kathryn Hahn (Crossing Jordan) will play a “nosy neighbor,” and Teyonah Parris (Mad Men) plays a grown-up Monica Rambeau, daughter of Carol Danvers’ BFF Maria Rambeau, introduced in Captain Marvel. Within the MCU timeline, it takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame, and its events will directly tie in to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, currently slated for a 2022 release. 

Per the official description: “WandaVision will follow the story of Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany’s superhero characters, the Scarlet Witch and Vision. The series is a blend of classic television and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.”

During last fall’s New York Comic-Con, Tom King mentioned that the show would draw on the 2016 comic book limited series by King and Gabriel H. Walta, The Vision. In that storyline, Vision “creates” a wife and two children and settles into a seemingly idyllic suburban life in Washington, DC—but things soon take a darker turn. (There’s also a comics storyline in which Wanda creates a world where everyone gets their heart’s desire, so reality-warping is certainly within her canonical powers.) The studio also released a few set photos earlier this year that confirmed rumors that WandaVision would feature the live-action debut of S.W.O.R.D. (the Sentient World Observation and Response Department), a subdivision of S.H.I.E.L.D. charged with handling alien threats to Earth.

The trailer opens in the style of a wholesome 1950s family sitcom as “Twilight Time” by The Platters plays in the background. (Side note: I will forever be creeped out by this song after it was used in the 1998 The X-Files episode “Kill Switch,” co-written by none other than William Gibson.) ”This is our home now. I want us to fit in,” Wanda tells Vision, and voila! He suddenly has a more human appearance, just in time for dinner with the neighbors. But they find they can’t answer even the simplest personal questions: when they moved in, where they moved from, and of course, why they don’t have any children (it is the 1950s).

That’s the cue to shift into different eras of classic television in succession, including a brief glimpse of Monica Rambeau. It looks like showrunner Jac Schaeffer and the writing team are having a lot of fun with the concept, and that lighthearted energy dominates the trailer. “We are an unusual couple, you know,” Wanda says as we briefly shift back to the 1950s at the end. “Oh, I don’t think that was ever in question,” Vision replies. And it looks like this will be a most unusual series.

There’s no official release date yet, but WandaVision is expected to debut on Disney+ in December 2020. (The original plan was for a spring 2021 release, so we’re getting it a bit earlier than expected.)

Listing image by YouTube/Disney+

Apple’s latest mobile operating system introduces two new options that will delight anyone who doesn’t want to be wedded to Apple’s web browser and email apps. You can now set your own default web browser and email apps, but not every app supports the feature—not even Gmail.

I’ll explain.

As previously noted, app developers must update their apps in order to allow them to be considered as a potential “default” web browser or email client in iOS 14. Since Apple didn’t reveal last Wednesday’s iOS 14 launch was going to take place until last Tuesday, it’s no surprise that not every email client nor web browser has already been updated with the ability to be set as your default.

For example, you can set Edge, Chrome, or Firefox as a default browser, but not Brave (yet). For email apps, Hey, Spark, and Outlook can all be set as your default email application in iOS 14, but not… Gmail. Or not yet, which is surprising given that Chrome can be set as a default browser. (You’d think the updates that permitted this option would have gone hand-in-hand, but here we are.)

If you tap on an email link in Messages or Safari with Gmail as the only email client installed on your iOS 14 iPhone, you’ll see this prompt:

If you would rather not restore Mail, thanks, you can now either wait for Google to update Gmail to allow it to be set as a default email app—which it will surely do at some point soon—or you can use the following workaround.

Simply switch to using Chrome as your default web browser (if you haven’t already). When you tap on email links within the iOS version of Google’s browser, it’ll launch the Gmail app (if you also have that installed). I just tried it using one of the email links in my weekly Tech 911 column and it worked perfectly.

So, yes, you’ll have to use a Google product to be able to effectively use a Google product within iOS 14 (for now), and this trick will only work in Chrome, and not with any other email links you encounter on your iPhone or iPad. Still, it’s something; it actually confused me at first, as I thought that it meant the “Gmail as a default email client” feature had already rolled out—perhaps I had set it up and forgot? Nope. It’s just a Chrome quirk, though a welcome one.

KISSIMMEE, FL—Biden made a campaign stop in Florida this week to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and reach out to his favorite voters: the Hispanics. In an effort to appeal to the voters, he performed a cultural celebration of Hispanic heritage by dancing in a sombrero and fake mustache, eating a burrito, and firing a pistola in the air.

“Hey there, fellow Latinx!” Biden said. “Before I begin, I would like to show you my Mexican celebration dance which I will perform to the tune of ‘La Cucaracha,’ Enjoy!” 

Biden then turned to a cassette player on the podium and pressed play. As the well known Spanish folk song began to play, Biden performed a dance in his traditional Mexican clothing he had recently purchased at a Spirit Halloween Store. Halfway through the performance, he yelled out, “You kids ain’t seen nothing yet! Watch this!” 

Biden then began to hop around and shoot an old fashioned Mexican pistola into the air. When he was finished, he sat down on the stage and ate a giant burrito for about 20 minutes.

When he was finished, the hall erupted in applause as the audience of several individuals stood on their feet to cheer the performance.

Biden knew he had nailed the performance, and that the Hispanic vote was in the bag. He was put back on ice in the basement until he is needed to go win over other ethnic groups.

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