Author: richard
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On Whether I Prefer Vanilla JavaScript or Frameworks?
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday someone on twitter asked this question, and rather than be reply: 320 of 10,000, I chose to write a blog post about it. The TLDR answer is Vanilla JS because if you learn how it works without the help of a framework you understand the language. This doesn’t mean that I…
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Learning About Service Workers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am currently learning about Working With Service Workers. Service workers allow you to make a website faster, for those who visit a website more often, or offline, in situations where connectivity may be unreliable. Some of the code used can be found on my github page. MDN Web Docs also…
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Smart Watches – Dumb Habits
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I wore Casio digital watches, Suunto Dive computers, Suunto GPS watches and other wrist wathces I was happy. You wore it and it tracked what you wanted it to track, from walks, to dives, to altitude changes, weather and more. With the Apple watch a new age emerged. The age of…
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Wearing a Dumb Watch Or a Classic
Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore the pandemic I liked to track sports, whether walking, indoor climbing, cycling, walking or more. I have tracked sports activities for two to three years at this point. I think I have almost 3000 tracked activities. That’s tracking my walks and more almost every day for at least ten years. Recently…
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A 2000 Year old Greek Mosaic in Turkey
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI like archeological twitter because it shows us curiousities every day of the week, several times a day. I like the image of the mosaic below because you see that it was quite deep, and hidden. Imagine digging down and coming across such a sight and site. More info
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Vineyard Mosaic In Italy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few years ago we read about a vineyard where people had been digging. They discovered a vineyard that was well preserved. At least with a vineyard above there is no chance of a plow or other tool damaging the mosaic.