Userscripts are a powerful way to take back control of the web, but their design hasn’t kept pace with the modern web. In particular, they struggle with content loaded in the background—think single page apps, HTMX, and infinite scroll. Recall that userscripts are designed to run at page load, and while there are several options…
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My electric utility gives me nice a good amount of data, including a download button! This made me want to get this data into Grafana so I could explore it better. Getting the data That “Download my data” button is tempting. The data ends up looking like: and I noticed the API returned a little…
Read More Tracking my electricity usageI often see JavaScript code that looks like: That’s a pretty big no-no because the only way to know where that error came from is from the error traceback. Tracebacks are hard to read, and you’re assuming that your traceback will even make it to your final logs. You may lose it via truncation or…
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Getting started Getting fast feedback in your IDE is vital to having a happy developer experience. Flow adds that value for me for JavaScript programming. Atom Install ide-flowtype. I just switched from the lighter-weight linter-flow and I’m liking it. The good parts You can use Flow with no transpilation You can use Flow with no…
Read More Flow Type for coding in JavaScript with guardrailsI’ve been learning Ansible off and on and off for the past year. I have so many complaints, but I still think it’s the least worst provisioning system out there. It’s online at crccheck.github.io/fuckingansible/, but I’ve also embedded it below: I’d go more into Ansible, just just thinking about it make me so angry. So…
Read More Demo: Fuckin AWith almost 25 thousand buildings, having a way to search the database would be nice. And just like how I did geo searches client side, searching buildings was done client side too. The inspiration for the interface was The Texas Tribune’s Tribpedia landing/search page. The final building search page can be found at elevators.texastribune.org/building/ and…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 7: Search + D3Being able to locate the nearest elevator was a must have feature for me. Being able to deploy using the free tier on Heroku was a nice to have feature. Luckily, I managed to find a way to do both: do the calculations client side in JavaScript. Lucky for me, I found a post, Calculate…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 6: GeoDjango? We don’t need no stinkin’ GeoDjangoIntro: This is part four of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
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