Today I learned...2020-05-31T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.websiteLatzlatz@todayilearned.websiteToday I learned...2022-01-17T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-172/<p>... that there are <a href="https://alittlelifeineurope.com/2017/09/10/in-praise-of-the-european-drying-rack/">no drying rags in the US of America</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2022-01-01T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-171/<p>... about <a href="https://owasp.org/www-community/Fuzzing">Fuzz Testing</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-12-30T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-170/<p>... about the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/business/discord-server-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqohlSlUZCibfQMMmqBCdnr_Dwac3gWXyaTOYUyhP1aEOBIOB8kOIYKdvZtJ13yieQJUJFo4Tc8FI770VOV1xGU7vq4GYmZ8BLmI59om5ATs409fDVuhktGLgNGX8eOsvnfjgtBjYbWLgW6bdgiUxNU0y98seAFKr2XEPwKzCA7Q1j">history of discord</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-12-19T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-169/<p>... about a new UI design trend: <a href="https://uxdesign.cc/claymorphism-in-user-interfaces-1757fabaa377">Claymorphism</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-12-19T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-168/<p>... the <a href="https://dev.to/ziratsu/slice-vs-splice-in-js-8m7">difference between slice and splice</a> in Javascript.</p>
Today I learned...2021-12-18T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-167/<p>... that there's is a successor to the great <a href="https://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/">Alan Parson's Project</a> album "<a href="https://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination">Tales of Mystery and Imagination</a>" by <a href="https://www.ericwoolfsonmusic.com/index.html">Eric Woolfson</a> called "<a href="https://www.ericwoolfsonmusic.com/poe-more-tales-of-mystery-and-imagination/index.html">POE - More Tales of Msytery and Imagination</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2021-11-30T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-166/<p>... that Perl 6 was renamed to <a href="https://raku.org/">Raku</a> in October 2019.</p>
Today I learned...2021-11-29T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-165/<p>... that there's an <a href="https://shellcreeper.com/custom-field-meta-box-in-gutenberg-editor/">old way and a new way</a> to add Metaboxes to a #WordPress admin page. (I haven't tried the new way yet.)</p>
Today I learned...2021-11-20T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-164/<p>... that <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat">IRC</a> is <a href="https://ircv3.net/">still alive and evolving</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-11-12T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-163/<p>... about the new <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/scripting/">"chrome.scripting"</a> API in Chrome.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-27T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-162/<p>... that the first hypertext project was called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu">Xanadu</a>. It was created in the 1960s.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-26T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-161/<p>... that <a href="https://pjharvey.net/">PJ Harvey</a> and <a href="https://www.nickcave.com/">Nick Cave</a> had a relationship in the 1990s.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-21T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-160/<p>... that in a Github repository you can press the '.' key on your keyboard and inside the browser
VSCode with the current repo files opens up. Cool!</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-21T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-159/<p>... about the <a href="https://web.dev/reporting-api/">Reporting API</a> in Chrome 96.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-21T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-158/<p>... that the new Javascript function <code>at()</code> (<a href="https://blog.logrocket.com/using-new-javascript-at-method">Logrocket</a>, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/at">MDN</a>) simplifies accessing elements of an array.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-19T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-157/<p>... that I can replace <code>return new Promise((resolve) => resolve(true)));</code> with <code>return Promise.resolve(true);</code>. #javascript</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-16T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-156/<p>... about "<a href="https://mindsdb.com/">MindsDB</a>", a Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence enhanced database.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-15T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-155/<p>... about <a href="https://protonvpn.com/">ProtonVPN</a>, a free (as in Free Beer) VPN service.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-09T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-154/<p>... that after a 4 year hiatus <a href="http://phrack.org/issues/70/1.html">phrack</a> has risen again.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-07T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-153/<p>... how <a href="http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/april/howpodcastinggotitsname">Podcasting got its name</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-06T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-152/<p>... about <a href="https://github.com/cantino/mcfly">mcfly</a>, a neural network enhanced replacement for the Linux <a href="https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/history.3.html">history</a> command.</p>
Today I learned...2021-10-03T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-151/<p>... that you can <a href="https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-supported-in-markdown-fields/">create footnotes</a> in Github Markdown fields.</p>
Today I learned...2021-08-13T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-150/<p>... about the CSS-property "accent-color", <a href="https://workingdraft.de/493/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F17DzJYysWM">here</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-08-13T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-149/<p>... about <a href="https://bund.dev/">this collection</a> of Open Data APIs by the German federal authorities. (via <a href="https://jlelse.blog/">J.L. Else</a>)</p>
Today I learned...2021-08-11T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-148/<p>... about the <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/kbd"><kbd></a> tag in HTML.</p>
Today I learned...2021-08-06T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-147/<p>... what's <a href="https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/bowling-ball-insides-photos/">inside a Pro bowling ball</a> and why it's hard to throw a curve ball at your local bowling hall.</p>
Today I learned...2021-08-04T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-146/<p>... how to <a href="https://vscode.one/diff-vscode/">How to do a Diff in VS Code</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-06-30T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-145/<p>... how to <a href="https://sia.codes/posts/how-to-add-prettier-to-a-project/">apply <code>prettier</code> to a whole project</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-06-30T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-144/<p>... how to implement a <a href="https://auth0.com/docs/connections/passwordless/guides/email-magic-link">passwordless login</a> with magic links.</p>
Today I learned...2021-06-24T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-143/<p>... about <a href="https://maplibre.org/">MapLibre</a>, a BSD licensed fork of <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/">Mapbox GL JS</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-06-14T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-142/<p>... that importing an ECMAScript <a href="https://dmitripavlutin.com/ecmascript-modules-dynamic-import/">module dynamically</a> is asynchronous. No wonder that it didn't worked for me in the past.</p>
Today I learned...2021-06-03T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-141/<p>... about the ECMAScript <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl">Intl</a>-API for internationalisation.</p>
Today I learned...2021-05-28T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-140/<p>... that in VSCode I can collapse all functions at once using "Ctrl-K Ctrl-0".</p>
Today I learned...2021-05-13T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-139/<p>... about Chrome's "<a href="https://web.dev/file-system-access/">File System Access API</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2021-05-04T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-138/<p>... about the "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6F9ljKw9kU">Balance Out</a>" command in Visual Studio Code.</p>
Today I learned...2021-05-03T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-137/<p>... that "ersatz" (replacement) is a word in the English language.</p>
Today I learned...2021-04-29T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-136/<p>... about <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/paper">Dropbox Paper</a>, a collaborative notebook.</p>
Today I learned...2021-04-27T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-135/<p>... about <a href="https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts">google-webfonts-helper</a>, a hassle free way to self-host Google fonts.</p>
Today I learned...2021-04-18T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-134/<p>... that you can join a <a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115002262083-Joining-a-Test-Meeting">Zoom test meeting</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-04-15T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-133/<p>... that I can <a href="https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#overview">make querySelector() case-insensitive</a> by using the "i" attribute in the pattern. #JavaScript</p>
Today I learned...2021-04-11T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-04-08T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-04-06T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-130/<p>... about the <a href="https://opensource.com/article/21/4/git-worktree">git "worktree"</a> command.</p>
Today I learned...2021-04-02T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-129/<p>... about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_space">Gemini Space</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2021-04-01T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-03-17T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-03-11T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-03-05T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-03-04T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-124/<p>... that I can easily add Dark Mode to a web page by adding "@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {}" to the stylesheet file.</p>
Today I learned...2021-03-03T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-02-28T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-122/<p>... about the <a href="https://haxe.org/">Haxe 4</a> programming language.</p>
Today I learned...2021-02-25T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-02-22T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-02-21T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2021-01-18T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-118/<p>... that <a href="https://neumorphism.io/">Neumorphism</a> is still a thing.</p>
Today I learned...2021-01-05T00:00:00-00:00https://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 "event.preventDefault()" and "event.stopPropagation()"</a>
in #Javascript.</p>
Today I learned...2020-12-30T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-116/<p>... that the "Windows Linux Subsystem" does not start, if the DNS service is disabled.</p>
Today I learned...2020-12-24T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-115/<p>... that the first mail client I used in 1995 (except Unix basic "mail" tool) is still alive: "<a href="http://www.pmail.com/30years.htm">Pegasus Mail</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2020-12-08T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-11-23T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-11-21T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-11-13T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-11-01T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-10-30T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-109/<p>... about "<a href="https://capiche.com/e/markdown-history">Peanuts-style</a>" text formatting, a kind of predecessor of Markdown.</p>
Today I learned...2020-10-28T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-10-21T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-10-18T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-10-11T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-105/<p>... about "<a href="http://bropages.org/">bropages</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2020-10-10T00:00:00-00:00https://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> ("*") in 200 B.C.</p>
Today I learned...2020-10-08T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-10-03T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-09-30T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-101/<p>... about the "<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/classList">classList.toggle()</a>" function and wrote a <a href="https://elektroelch.net/javascript-swap-classes-of-an-html-element/">blog post</a> about mimicking jQuery's "<a href="https://api.jquery.com/toggleClass/">toggleClass()</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2020-09-28T00:00:00-00:00https://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 "<a href="https://www.joho.se/2009/10/08/frontdoor-announcement-in-fidonews-1986/">FrontDoor</a>", the program that ran most of <a href="https://www.fidonet.org/">FidoNet</a> in the 1980s and 90s.</p>
Today I learned...2020-09-27T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-09-22T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-09-19T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-09-18T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-09-17T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-96/<p>... how to search my own tweets (searchword (from:latz))</p>
Today I learned...2020-09-16T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-95/<p>... that the word "authenficiation" does not exist, instead it's called "authentication".</p>
Today I learned...2020-09-15T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-09-13T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-93/<p>... about a music genre called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardcore">bardcore</a>". Weird stuff.</p>
Today I learned...2020-09-12T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-92/<p>... why "<a href="https://tc39.es/proposal-top-level-await/">top level await</a>" is difficult to implement in the JavaScript engine (it's because of the Microtask Queue I learned about yesterday).</p>
Today I learned...2020-09-11T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-09-10T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-90/<p>... that Ruby On Rails is still a thing.</p>
Today I learned...2020-08-31T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-89/<p>... that it takes time to get used to an ergonomic office chair.</p>
Today I learned...2020-08-29T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-27T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-26T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-25T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-24T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-22T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-21T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-82/<p>... about the "<a href="https://langserver.org/">Language Server Protocol</a>" and its use with the <a href="https://github.com/sveltejs/language-tools">Svelte IDE extension</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2020-08-20T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-81/<p>... that in Firefox/Chrome extensions "port.postMessage()" is great for sending many messages between the components, but not for exchanging data. "runtime.sendMessage()" is still the better choice.</p>
Today I learned...2020-08-19T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-18T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-17T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-78/<p>... that there's a thing like "<a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/recursive-queries-postgresql/">recursive SQL queries</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2020-08-16T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-15T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-14T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-13T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-12T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-11T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-72/<p>... that asynchronous programming will never be my friend.</p>
Today I learned...2020-08-10T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-09T00:00:00-00:00https://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 "cloud".</p>
Today I learned...2020-08-08T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-07T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-06T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-05T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-04T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-03T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-02T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-08-01T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-62/<p>... that the older I get the less I can enjoy the summer heat.</p>
Today I learned...2020-07-31T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-30T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-29T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-27T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-26T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-57/<p>... that "Svelte" (the name of the new promising <a href="https://svelte.dev/">ECMAScript framework</a>) means "attractively thin" <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/svelte">source</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2020-07-25T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-24T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-23T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-22T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-53/<p>... about the "<a href="https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl">sl</a>" terminal command.</p>
Today I learned...2020-07-21T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-20T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-51/<p>... that the "PageRank" 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...2020-07-19T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-16T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-15T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-46/<p>... that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant">David Tennants</a> real name is "David John McDonald".</p>
Today I learned...2020-07-14T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-45/<p>... that "Wi-Fi" has no actual meaning, it just sounds nice.</p>
Today I learned...2020-07-13T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-12T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-11T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-10T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-09T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-40/<p>... that "<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display">display: none;</a>" removes an element completely whereas with "<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/visibility">visibility: hidden</a>" the element takes its space but is not visible (#CSS).</p>
Today I learned...2020-07-08T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-07T00:00:00-00:00https://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 "<a href="https://www.radiofreeburrito.com/">Radio Free Burrito</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2020-07-06T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-05T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-04T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-03T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-07-02T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-33/<p>... that "nada" is the Spanish word for "nothing", not the Russian word ("nichego").</p>
Today I learned...2020-07-01T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-30T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-29T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-30/<p>... about the "<a href="https://www.gwern.net/Morning-writing">Morning Writing Effect</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-28T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-27T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-26T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-27/<p>... that "<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher">Gopher</a>" is <a href="https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/gopherspace.html">still alive</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-25T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-24T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-23T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-24/<p>... that Twitter, Flickr, OSM and others use a thing called WOEID "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOEID">Yahoo Where On Earth IDentifier</a>" but currently there seems to be no possibility to generate your own.</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-22T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-21T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-20T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-19T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-20/<p>... about "<a href="https://staykeen.com/">keen</a>", a new experimental tool by Google to find interesting things.</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-18T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-19/<p>.. that there's a Unicode character called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_joiner">Word Joiner</a>" that has zero width and prevents word breaking (props <a href="https://twitter.com/aelurotheist">@aelurotheist</a>).</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-17T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-18/<p>.. about "<a href="https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment">scroll-to-text-fragment</a>" but I'm not sure if I actually need such a thing.</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-16T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-17/<p>... that it's not called "IndexDB" but "IndexedDB" (with an "ed").</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-15T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-14T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-13T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-12T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-11T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-10T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-09T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-08T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-9/<p>... that there's a CSS-property called
"<a href="https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-decoration-thickness/">text-decoration-thickness</a>".</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-07T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-06T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-05T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-04T00:00:00-00:00https://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&t=42s">lofi
hiphop</a>.</p>
Today I learned...2020-06-03T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-4/<p>... that "Pedelec" 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...2020-06-02T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-06-01T00:00:00-00:00https://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...2020-05-31T00:00:00-00:00https://todayilearned.website/posts/blog-post-2/<p>...how to use <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/%5D">11ty for this site</a>.</p>