For some reason, the tragic loss of Chester Bennington the frontman of Linkin Park still affects me to this day. I didn’t personally know him, but Linkin Park was the soundtrack to my teenage years (like many others my age).
I don’t even know if Linkin Park will ever return, Chester is irreplaceable, in my opinion. One of the most talented vocalists in the genre could switch between his unique singing style to Usain Bolt stamina levels of screaming.
In case you missed it, Australia is currently trying to introduce a media bargaining code forcing Facebook, Google and presumably any other company that links to news to pay money to media organisations.
It’s as crazy as it sounds.
Google has recently said that if the code were approved in its current form, it would pull search out of Australia. Some think Google might be bluffing, but I assure you that they are not. They will make good on their threat if they’re willing to go on the record.
Having recently picked up a HP Reverb G2 headset and being excited to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I thought I would share my settings with the game running nicely with this headset and my Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics card.
It is no secret that MSFS 2020 is a game that will stress even the highest spec of graphics cards. The 3070 not being the highest-rated GPU you can get right now won’t let you max the settings for MSFS 2020 and provide optimal FPS, but it is adequate with some tweaking.
The proposed Australian News Media Bargaining Code is a contentious code of conduct that will compel digital companies like Facebook and Google to pay for any news content they link to.
In simple terms, if Google links to a news story, they are required to pay for it under this proposed mandatory code of conduct, as far Facebook and other digital companies.
And if you think this sounds like a stupid idea that would never be enacted into law, you seriously underestimate the influence that Rupert Murdoch and News Corp have in Australia.
I have been working on quite an ambitious WordPress project that has a lot of custom REST API endpoints to work alongside an Aurelia SPA application running on top of WordPress.
In this project, I am working with a location JSON file which is 34mb in size. Returning the entire file contents would be a disaster, so I created an endpoint with the ability to search this endpoint. As you might have learned if you are reading this, search queries can sometimes have spaces.
In Aurelia 2, we have a couple of different ways of working with slotted content. If you are familiar with Web Components, the slot element is a placeholder that can have content projected into it, the common use for this is reusable components.
In Aurelia 1, we had support for the slot element and could project almost anything we wanted inside of it, but there were limitations (as per the spec) which meant it wasn’t always the best tool for the job.
The HP Reverb G2 is easily the most exciting virtual reality headset that you can buy in 2021. Furthermore, it is also one of the more affordable options.
When evaluating virtual reality headset options, I considered the more established VR names first: HTC, Valve and Oculus. HP was admittedly low on the ladder of options until I did some digging into the HP Reverb G2.
You will probably hear about this in every review, but the most impressive thing about the Reverb G2 is the screen resolution and audio quality. While it only has a 114-degree field of view, don’t let that trick you into thinking more expensive options are necessarily better because they offer larger FOV.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. It looks like after being dropped by Amazon Web Services and other providers, Parler is back online (sort of) with a message.
I guess step one of the revival process for Parler was finding a web host who would take them and handle the scale Parler was running at. I have no idea who is hosting Parler (maybe they are hosting themselves), but the site does not appear to be fully operational just yet.
When I’m not writing JavaScript or brewing beer, I’m an avid guitarist and drummer. I’ve been playing guitar for a while, but drums are somewhat new to me.
My first electronic kit was a Roland TD-1KV, an excellent beginner kit to see if I actually stuck to drumming before pursuing something more expensive. It’s a compact kit I found myself growing out of quickly.
When assessing my next kit, I knew I would stick to playing electric, so I could play quietly any time of the day and record without needing to mic anything up.
The free-speech alternative to Twitter called Parler has finally gone down after Amazon said it would be pulling the plug on hosting the controversial platform that houses a wide variety of people from self-taught experts to self-described patriots.
If you are not sure why Parler went down, it comes down to the platform being used to organise the Capitol Hill attack and forcing the hand of tech companies to reconcile with the part they played in all of it. The platform was being used to organise all kinds of terrible things, and the community as a whole leant quite heavily into toxic territory.