I have been an avid user of Sublime Text Editor for as long as I can remember. I still remember when I used to use Notepad++ and the day I switched over to Sublime. I used the trial for about a week …
One of many favourite things in ECMAScript 6 (aka ES6) is the newly added arrow functions. If you’re a Coffeescript user then the arrow function premise is not entirely new to you.
Essentially …
In 2013 I had my first experience with UK customs at Heathrow Airport. I had never been to the UK before, but my soon-to-be-wife has UK roots. Her parents immigrated over here 20 years ago and she has …
While browsers play catchup with ES6 support and we wait for older browsers without ES6 support to fizzle out and die, we can actually start using ES6 today thanks to the work of Google’s Traceur or …
Recently I switched my writing workflow for all of my blog posts to Markdown. I compose all my blog posts in Markdown, sync them with Dropbox and then publish them. In doing so, I have noticed the …
Things just got real in the front-end framework space. Durandal developer Rob Eisenberg and once upon a time short-term core Angular 2.0 developer has announced a new framework called Aurelia. A …
Call me un-Australian, a non-conforming individual, a meta-hipster or what you will, but I just don’t see the appeal of the Triple J Hottest 100. A countdown which somehow seems to seduce both …
During my relatively small amounts of down time I sometimes like to unwind with a beer, a few friends and play a game of GTA V on my PS4 (which largely collects dust). Because I do not get to play …
Without fail, every single day I get multiple calls from the number 02 8015 7641 for the last week or so. They keep trying to call, yet don’t seem to leave a message on my voicemail. I keep …
With HTML5 came a plethora of useful API’s and added methods, one of those which didn’t really get as much visibility (ha, get it?) was the Page Visibility API.
What is the Page Visibility API? The …