Today I learned... 2020-05-31T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website Latz latz@todayilearned.website Today I learned... 2021-04-11T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-132/ <p>... about <a href="https://cloudbeaver.io/">CloudBeaver</a>, a web server that provides a database manager.</p> Today I learned... 2021-04-08T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-131/ <p>... that there is a <a href="https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/">GNU Cobol compiler</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2021-04-06T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-130/ <p>... about the <a href="https://opensource.com/article/21/4/git-worktree">git &quot;worktree&quot;</a> command.</p> Today I learned... 2021-04-02T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-129/ <p>... about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_space">Gemini Space</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2021-04-01T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-128/ <p>... about the <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201701/11-warning-signs-gaslighting">warning signs of gaslighting</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2021-03-17T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-127/ <p>... that if you already created a Firefox add-on coding a Thunderbird add-on is a piece of cake.</p> Today I learned... 2021-03-11T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-126/ <p>... that <a href="https://uxdesign.cc/glassmorphism-in-user-interfaces-1f39bb1308c9">Glasmorphism</a> is the next hot thing in web design.</p> Today I learned... 2021-03-05T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-125/ <p>... that JavaScript is only in 7th place in the <a href="https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/?20210206">TIOBE index</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2021-03-04T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-124/ <p>... that I can easily add Dark Mode to a web page by adding &quot;@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {}&quot; to the stylesheet file.</p> Today I learned... 2021-03-03T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-123/ <p>... about the meaning of all those <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/back-popular-demand-google-cloud-products-4-words-or-less-2021-edition">Google Cloud product names</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2021-02-28T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-122/ <p>... about the <a href="https://haxe.org/">Haxe 4</a> programming language.</p> Today I learned... 2021-02-25T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-121/ <p>... about the <a href="https://dzone.com/articles/hern-stack-comin-in-hot">HERN</a> stack.</p> Today I learned... 2021-02-22T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-120/ <p>... that GitHub contains a <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/code-scanning">code scanning API</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2021-02-21T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-119/ <p>... how to <a href="http://adam.kahtava.com/journal/2008/03/11/inter-cross-browser-window-communication-using-javascript/">pass messages</a> between browser popup windows using javascript.</p> Today I learned... 2021-01-18T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-118/ <p>... that <a href="https://neumorphism.io/">Neumorphism</a> is still a thing.</p> Today I learned... 2021-01-05T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-117/ <p>... about the <a href="https://medium.com/@jacobwarduk/how-to-correctly-use-preventdefault-stoppropagation-or-return-false-on-events-6c4e3f31aedb">difference between &quot;event.preventDefault()&quot; and &quot;event.stopPropagation()&quot;</a> in #Javascript.</p> Today I learned... 2020-12-30T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-116/ <p>... that the &quot;Windows Linux Subsystem&quot; does not start, if the DNS service is disabled.</p> Today I learned... 2020-12-24T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-115/ <p>... that the first mail client I used in 1995 (except Unix basic &quot;mail&quot; tool) is still alive: &quot;<a href="http://www.pmail.com/30years.htm">Pegasus Mail</a>&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-12-08T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-114/ <p>... how to <a href="https://web.dev/prefers-color-scheme/">implement Dark Mode</a> to a web app efficiently.</p> Today I learned... 2020-11-23T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-113/ <p>... that <a href="https://substack.com/">substack</a> could <a href="http://scripting.com/2020/11/23.html#a154801">become the successor</a> of <a href="https://medium.com/">medium</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-11-21T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-112/ <p>... how to create a <a href="https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/455">simple navigation</a> for eleventy.</p> Today I learned... 2020-11-13T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-111/ <p>... that Bill Gates has a new <a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/Podcast">podcast</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-11-01T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-110/ <p>... that I can host my own internet <a href="https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest">speedtest</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-10-30T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-109/ <p>... about &quot;<a href="https://capiche.com/e/markdown-history">Peanuts-style</a>&quot; text formatting, a kind of predecessor of Markdown.</p> Today I learned... 2020-10-28T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-108/ <p>... how to timeout a <a href="https://dmitripavlutin.com/timeout-fetch-request/">fetch()</a> request. #Javascript</p> Today I learned... 2020-10-21T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-107/ <p>... that in Firefox and Chrome you can switch to the rightmost Tab by using <code>Ctrl-9</code>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-10-18T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-106/ <p>... that the <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/podcast/">StackOverflow Podcast</a> is entertaining and informative.</p> Today I learned... 2020-10-11T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-105/ <p>... about &quot;<a href="http://bropages.org/">bropages</a>&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-10-10T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-104/ <p>... that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samothrace">Aristarchus of Samothrace</a> was the <a href="https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/">inventor of the asterix</a> (&quot;*&quot;) in 200 B.C.</p> Today I learned... 2020-10-08T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-103/ <p>... about the elements of a <a href="https://www.stephaniemorillo.co/post/7-pieces-of-information-to-include-in-technical-blog-posts">good technical blog post</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-10-03T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-102/ <p>... that you can <a href="https://chrz.de/2020/04/21/fortran-in-the-browser/">compile Fortran to WebAssembly</a>. Yeah! (I learned Fortran in the late 1980's at university.)</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-30T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-101/ <p>... about the &quot;<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/classList">classList.toggle()</a>&quot; function and wrote a <a href="https://elektroelch.net/javascript-swap-classes-of-an-html-element/">blog post</a> about mimicking jQuery's &quot;<a href="https://api.jquery.com/toggleClass/">toggleClass()</a>&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-28T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-100/ <p>... that Joaquim Homrighausen is still <a href="https://www.joho.se/">actively blogging</a>. He's the guy behind &quot;<a href="https://www.joho.se/2009/10/08/frontdoor-announcement-in-fidonews-1986/">FrontDoor</a>&quot;, the program that ran most of <a href="https://www.fidonet.org/">FidoNet</a> in the 1980s and 90s.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-27T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-99/ <p>... about this randomly selected <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6p21dRudS9FmcyGvKWPq2R">Spotify playlist</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-22T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-98/ <p>... how Twitter is <a href="https://twitter.com/luca/status/1292426733937975299?s=21">cropping images</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-19T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-97/ <p>... that <a href="https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/">AVIF</a> might become the next standard for web images.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-18T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blg-post-96/ <p>... why the <a href="https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters">Apple II</a> didn't support lower case letters.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-17T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-96/ <p>... how to search my own tweets (searchword (from:latz))</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-16T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-95/ <p>... that the word &quot;authenficiation&quot; does not exist, instead it's called &quot;authentication&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-15T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-94/ <p>... about the <a href="https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2020/Jul/28/Using-the-brightness-CSS-Filter-to-generically-highlight-Content">brightness()</a> CSS Filter.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-13T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-93/ <p>... about a music genre called &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardcore">bardcore</a>&quot;. Weird stuff.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-12T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-92/ <p>... why &quot;<a href="https://tc39.es/proposal-top-level-await/">top level await</a>&quot; is difficult to implement in the JavaScript engine (it's because of the Microtask Queue I learned about yesterday).</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-11T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-91/ <p>... about the <a href="https://javascript.info/microtask-queue">Microtask Queue</a> of ECMAScript.</p> Today I learned... 2020-09-10T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-90/ <p>... that Ruby On Rails is still a thing.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-31T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-89/ <p>... that it takes time to get used to an ergonomic office chair.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-29T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-88/ <p>... that Javascript contains <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/get">getters</a> and <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/set">setters</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-27T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-87/ <p>... that the <a href="https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/?20200802">TIOBE index</a> lists JavaScript on 7th place, Visual Basic is on 6th place. Well...</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-26T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-86/ <p>... that there are many, many JavaScript libraries out there that still uses jQuery, e.g. <a href="https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js">Typeahead.js</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-25T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-85/ <p>... that <a href="http://home.rsscloud.co/">rssCloud</a> is still alive and even a new version is in the works.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-24T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-84/ <p>... what interfaces in TypeScript are and that I probably will never need to use them.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-22T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-83/ <p>... that there's a <a href="https://github.com/phryneas/generator-webext-typescript">script</a> that can create a basic setup for Firefox/Chrome extensions and TypeScript.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-21T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-82/ <p>... about the &quot;<a href="https://langserver.org/">Language Server Protocol</a>&quot; and its use with the <a href="https://github.com/sveltejs/language-tools">Svelte IDE extension</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-20T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-81/ <p>... that in Firefox/Chrome extensions &quot;port.postMessage()&quot; is great for sending many messages between the components, but not for exchanging data. &quot;runtime.sendMessage()&quot; is still the better choice.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-19T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-80/ <p>... that <a href="https://eager.io/blog/the-languages-which-almost-were-css/">RRP</a> (Robert Raisch Proposal) almost became what CSS is nowadays.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-18T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-79/ <p>... that there's a <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill/">polyfill library</a> for Promise-based WebExtension APIs in Chrome.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-17T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-78/ <p>... that there's a thing like &quot;<a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/recursive-queries-postgresql/">recursive SQL queries</a>&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-16T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-77/ <p>... that <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/">node.js</a> v14.8.0 introduces <a href="https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/62bb2e757f">top-level async/await</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-15T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-76/ <p>... how to <a href="https://elijahmanor.com/format-js-numbers">natively format JavaScript numbers</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-14T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-75/ <p>... about the difference between Javascript's Array <a href="https://dev.to/shrutikapoor08/javascript-array-slice-vs-splice-the-difference-explained-with-cake-12l9">slice and splice</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-13T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-74/ <p>... how to create an AppPassword (access token) in Nextcloud and how to use it.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-12T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-73/ <p>... that used iPods classic are still quite expensive. I'm afraid mine is dying soon.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-11T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-72/ <p>... that asynchronous programming will never be my friend.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-10T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-71/ <p>... that i need to remember that you can't use asynchronous calls inside a map() function. #javascript</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-09T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-70/ <p>... that you can have a <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas">free MongoDB</a> in the &quot;cloud&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-08T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-69/ <p>... about the Google Android <a href="https://developers.google.com/nearby">Nearby</a> feature and that I can eventually <a href="https://www.techbitlo.com/2020/08/google-chrome-nearby-sharing.html">use it with Chrome</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-07T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-68/ <p>... that <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/">HackerNews</a> is written in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)">Arc</a> which is written in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)">Racket</a> which is written in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)">C</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-06T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-67/ <p>... what a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_exclusion">mutex</a> is and <a href="https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/courses/interview-prep-what-is-a-mutex-3020">how to use it</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-05T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-66/ <p>... that <a href="https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hcp-create-trial-account.html">SAP Cloud</a> does not offer a free forever plan for developers.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-04T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-65/ <p>... that <a href="https://www.embarcadero.com/de/products/delphi">Delphi Pascal</a> is still around. In the 90's I had my first programming gig at university using it.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-03T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-64/ <p>... that in Japan there is a lot of squishy food. I mostly don't like it, tamagoyaki is quite eatable.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-02T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-63/ <p>... about the <a href="https://dev.to/aligoren/ownership-concept-in-rust-61a">Ownership Concept in Rust</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-08-01T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-62/ <p>... that the older I get the less I can enjoy the summer heat.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-31T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-61/ <p>... that <a href="https://svelte.dev/">Svelte</a> is <a href="https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-and-typescript">supporting Typescript</a> now.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-30T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-60/ <p>... that <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us</a> may be back online again this summer.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-29T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-59/ <p>... that you can query <a href="https://trends.google.com/">Google Trends</a> with some <a href="https://github.com/GeneralMills/pytrends">Python Code</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-27T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-58/ <p>... that you can use <a href="https://prettier.io/">Prettier</a> in <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/">JetBrain's WebStorm</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-26T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-57/ <p>... that &quot;Svelte&quot; (the name of the new promising <a href="https://svelte.dev/">ECMAScript framework</a>) means &quot;attractively thin&quot; <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/svelte">source</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-25T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-56/ <p>... about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry">Non-Euclidean geometry</a> and that the sum of angles in a trianlge need not to be 180 degrees (thanks to this <a href="https://florian-freistetter.de/podcast/sternengeschichten-folge-398-nichteuklidische-geometrie-und-die-form-des-universums/">German podcast</a>).</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-24T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-55/ <p>... that there's a <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-Weller-Ever-Changing-Moods/dp/1844494918">book</a> about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weller">Paul Weller</a> already written in 2005. Why haven't I read it yet?</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-23T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-54/ <p>... that I can <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_46#_pin-tabs">pin tabs</a> in VSCode. #vscode</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-22T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-53/ <p>... about the &quot;<a href="https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl">sl</a>&quot; terminal command.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-21T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-52/ <p>... that the <code>baloo_file</code> process that's slowing my Linux system down, is used by the <a href="https://community.kde.org/Baloo">file indexer</a> of KDE and can be disabled with <code>balloctl disable</code>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-20T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-51/ <p>... that the &quot;PageRank&quot; was named after the Google co-founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page">Larry Page</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010715123343/https://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html">Source</a>).</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-19T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-50/ <p>... that Twitter introduced a <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2020/introducing_new_twitter_api.html">new API</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-16T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-47/ <p>... about a <a href="https://web.dev/one-line-layouts/">drop dead easy method</a> to center everything.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-15T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-46/ <p>... that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant">David Tennants</a> real name is &quot;David John McDonald&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-14T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-45/ <p>... that &quot;Wi-Fi&quot; has no actual meaning, it just sounds nice.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-13T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-44/ <p>... <a href="https://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea">how it feels to have diylexia</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-12T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-43/ <p>... that there might be a successor to <a href="http://www.csszengarden.com/">CSS Zen Garden</a> called <a href="https://stylestage.dev/">stylestage</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-11T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-42/ <p>... that <a href="https://www.soup.io/">soup.io</a> is closing. That's why you should host your own blog!</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-10T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-41/ <p>... that there's a thing called <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/01/devtools">LogPoints</a> in the DevTools of Chrome and Firefox.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-09T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-40/ <p>... that &quot;<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display">display: none;</a>&quot; removes an element completely whereas with &quot;<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/visibility">visibility: hidden</a>&quot; the element takes its space but is not visible (#CSS).</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-08T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-39/ <p>... that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson">Gary Larson</a> has a website with <a href="https://www.thefarside.com/">daily comics</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-07T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-38/ <p>... that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Wheaton">Wil Wheaton</a> has his own podcast called &quot;<a href="https://www.radiofreeburrito.com/">Radio Free Burrito</a>&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-06T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-37/ <p>... that I know the name of actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlize_Theron">Charlize Theron</a> for a long time but never have actually seen any movie starring her until today.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-05T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-36/ <p>... that there are even <a href="https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-07-04-choosing-a-rust-web-framework-2020-edition/">frameworks for Rust</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-04T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-35/ <p>... that in 1932 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War">Big Emu War</a> took place in western Australia.</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-03T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-34/ <p>... that <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31622038">beer was banned in Iceland</a> until March 1st, 1989</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-02T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-33/ <p>... that &quot;nada&quot; is the Spanish word for &quot;nothing&quot;, not the Russian word (&quot;nichego&quot;).</p> Today I learned... 2020-07-01T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-32/ <p>... about <a href="https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews">pygooglenews</a>, a python wrapper of the Google News RSS feed.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-30T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-31/ <p>... that <a href="https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/06/javascript-spacex-dragon/">JavaScript made it into space</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-29T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-30/ <p>... about the &quot;<a href="https://www.gwern.net/Morning-writing">Morning Writing Effect</a>&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-28T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-29/ <p>... about the most important <a href="https://areknawo.com/ecmascript-2020-biggest-new-features/">new features</a> in ECMAScript 2020.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-27T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-28/ <p>... how to <a href="https://javascriptjeep.com/better-switch-statements/">replace a switch statement</a> with objects in ECMAScript.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-26T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-27/ <p>... that &quot;<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher">Gopher</a>&quot; is <a href="https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/gopherspace.html">still alive</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-25T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-26/ <p>... how I can easily add my blogs to <a href="https://indieweb.org/">IndieWeb</a> with the WordPress <a href="https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/">IndieWeb Collection</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-24T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-25/ <p>... how you can use <a href="https://yaytext.com/how-to/italic-text-twitter/"><em>italics</em> in tweets</a> (Spoiler: Unicode).</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-23T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-24/ <p>... that Twitter, Flickr, OSM and others use a thing called WOEID &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOEID">Yahoo Where On Earth IDentifier</a>&quot; but currently there seems to be no possibility to generate your own.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-22T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-23/ <p>.. that it's ridicously easy to <a href="https://dev.to/omarhashimoto/getting-a-hey-invite-code-using-a-twitter-bot-5ao1">create a Twitter bot</a> using the <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/twit">twit</a> package.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-21T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-22/ <p>... that nowadays you have to <a href="https://developer.twitter.com/en/application/use-case">register</a> with Twitter to be able to create an App with their API.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-20T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-21/ <p>... that WordPress' Gutenberg editor is better than I thought after I got more familiar with it.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-19T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-20/ <p>... about &quot;<a href="https://staykeen.com/">keen</a>&quot;, a new experimental tool by Google to find interesting things.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-18T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-19/ <p>.. that there's a Unicode character called &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_joiner">Word Joiner</a>&quot; that has zero width and prevents word breaking (props <a href="https://twitter.com/aelurotheist">@aelurotheist</a>).</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-17T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-18/ <p>.. about &quot;<a href="https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment">scroll-to-text-fragment</a>&quot; but I'm not sure if I actually need such a thing.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-16T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-17/ <p>... that it's not called &quot;IndexDB&quot; but &quot;IndexedDB&quot; (with an &quot;ed&quot;).</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-15T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-16/ <p>... that <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API">IndexDB</a> is somewhat complicated to use.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-14T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-15/ <p>... that I have to use the <a href="https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/getting-started-with-web-ext/">web-ext</a> package to develop a Firefox addon.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-13T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-14/ <p>... that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling">Bruce Sterling</a> has a <a href="https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/">tumblr blog</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-12T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-13/ <p>... that it's may be time to move away from <a href="https://www.strava.com/">strava</a>, maybe <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abvio.meter.cycle">Cyclemeter</a>. Props to <a href="http://twitter.com/RaddiRadditski">@RaddiRadditski</a></p> Today I learned... 2020-06-11T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-12/ <p>... that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry">perry</a> is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented pears, similar to cider made from apples.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-10T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-11/ <p>... about <a href="https://cloudflare.tv/">cloudflare.tv</a> (<a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-tv/">blog post</a>).</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-09T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-10/ <p>... how to <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/untitled-23/">undo a git commit</a> locally and remotely.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-08T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-9/ <p>... that there's a CSS-property called &quot;<a href="https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-decoration-thickness/">text-decoration-thickness</a>&quot;.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-07T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-8/ <p>... about a simple method to <a href="https://dev.to/sharmakushal/hide-all-console-logs-in-production-with-just-3-lines-of-code-pp4">hide console.log()</a> in production code.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-06T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-7/ <p>... that HTML5 has built-in <a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#client-side-form-validation">form validation</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-05T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-6/ <p>... that people start looking for <a href="https://dev.to/areknawo/top-7-vs-code-alternatives-3c0n">alternatives</a> as soon as something becomes too trendy.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-04T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-5/ <p>... that even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith">Will Smith</a> is into <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA56B4JyTgI&amp;t=42s">lofi hiphop</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-03T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-4/ <p>... that &quot;Pedelec&quot; is an acronym for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedelec"><b>Ped</b>al <b>Ele</b>ctric <b>C</b>ycle</a>.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-02T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-3/ <p>... that it's not easy to write a good introduction for a technical blog post.</p> Today I learned... 2020-06-01T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-1/ <p>... how to deploy this site with github and netlify. <a href="https://vibrant-carson-c8e4a4.netlify.app/">Today I learned...</a></p> Today I learned... 2020-05-31T00:00:00-00:00 https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-2/ <p>...how to use <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/%5D">11ty for this site</a>.</p>