javascript Set content of a frame with HTML string I ran into a problem when I was trying to display an HTML page hosted on Github. Since Github serves HTML files as raw text in the content type headers, you can't just browse to the raw file in a repo and view it. Usually RawGit works great as a
base 64 Using the FileReader API (base 64 conversion in-browser) Until recently, I had never needed to read files in on a webpage. Usually, it is more than enough to create an <input> tag with the type of a file and send it on its way to a server to be processed or stored. With the rise of
javascript Civilization VI Quotes A new Civilization game launched this weekend and with it comes a list of new quotes. I haven't seen these online anywhere yet, so I thought I'd put them up here. Feature Barrier Reef “Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think
javascript Welcome to treetown! Population: JavaScript In any computer science education, you'll get the importance of tree data structures hammered into you through books, professors, and midterms. Almost every job interview throws a problem at you where they expect you to use a tree to achieve that coveted Θ(log n) lookup time. Why isn't there
nodejs Parsing JSON files with NodeJS It seems like every month or so, I'm trying to format a large JSON file I've downloaded or dumped from somewhere. Despite JSON being a very human readable, it isn't of much use if it isn't properly formatted. There are plenty of ways to format it in the browser. You
javascript Hijack AJAX headers with the dev console A lot of important stuff is passed around in HTTP headers. Things like credentials, auth tokens, and other API information. For the most part, these are invisible to the user. They act as the common glue that binds a session together. I wrote earlier on how to intercept the responses
javascript Parse the command line with ease using Minimist Sometimes you come across a tool that is so fit for the job that you don't bother looking for anything else after you use it once. A lot of Unix tools fit this mold. These tools usually have a well defined problem and execute it beautifully. They do one thing
javascript Reactive Online SHA256 Encoder Continuing my post series of online tools, here is an SHA256 hash tool. Give it a string, it gives you a big number encoded in hex back. I've also included an MD5 encoder and a hex to decimal decoder as options.
javascript Reactive Base 64 Encoder & Decoder Online base 64 encoder/decoders are a dime a dozen online. Just do a search on Google for them and you'll see thousands of them. So many of them are inadequate. It's the current year, you shouldn't have to press a button to encode your string. Note: JavaScript's native atob(
twitter Follow me on Twitter with this one neat trick Sure, it's easy enough to follow someone on Twitter. Log into twitter, search for their handle, and click the follow button. That's all well and good, but it is also mundane and boring. If you are tired of boring, here's a super cool way to follow me. Go to TweetDeck
javascript Turn your cURL commands into runnable JavaScript I found that recently I've been trying to reproduce a lot of HTTP requests in the scripts I've been writing. I got tired of doing it manually, so I wrote this tool to generate them for me. Not only does this work for when you are transitioning from using curl
sql Run Oracle SQL with Node.js I've had to deal with an Oracle database recently, and like most enterprise-level tooling, I've found it lacking. The tools Oracle provides to access their data are the bare minimum they need to be functional. Companies don't buy enterprise software for their developer, they buy it for their operational needs
cron How to run cron on your browser For anyone that has ever done sysadmin in a Unix environment, cron is an indispensable tool. It gives you a single place where you can schedule jobs and tell them when to run in a simple format (see cron.guru). Thanks to the cron package in NPM, this functionality is
react Using React to display JSON as a table One of the most common things you'll do when you are designing user interfaces on the web is turning structured data into something easily viewable, and one of the most common ways to do it is in a table. APIs are designed to be easily parsed by machines. Even though
code How to use the ... operator (spread) in ES6 JavaScript Most of the new ES6 JavaScript specification have been implemented in the latest versions of the popular browsers. It offers a lot of new syntax, including new ways to define functions. The arrow operator allows you to define functions but also changes how implicit parameters like this and arguments are
