Author: jaywll
Late Night Links – Sunday March 23rd, 2014
It’s that time again! It’s been a particularly busy week of looking at junk on the internet, so I have much to get through. We’d better get started.
- 45+ Great Web and Icon Fonts of 2013
Also Taking a Second Look at Free Fonts. People are all about the fonts this week, apparently. - Appmethod Lets You Code Native Android, iOS and Desktop Apps Simultaneously
- 25 Beautiful Example of Modern Minimal Web Design
It seems like I was all about the design this week, judging by what I was flagging for inclusion in this post. - Microsoft’s OneNote Goes Completely Free, Launches for Macs
I really like OneNote, but the free version doesn’t sync with WebDAV shares. That’s OK because I’d pay for that functionality, but the Android version doesn’t sync with WebDAV either. Not cool, Microsoft. - Ever Dreamed of Flying Your Own Ukrainian Bomber?
- The Broquet
- Getting a Little Ahead of Yourself
- The Canadian Press Has, Like, a Good Sense of Humour
- This is Motorola’s New Android Wear Smartwatch: Moto 360
Well, I no longer want a pebble. - Only in Germany
- Charlie is Never This Excited About Cleanliness
- The Meanest Thing Ever
- Pushbullet’s IFTTT Channel Turns Any Trigger Into a Notification
More here. I installed this app this week, and I love it. I’m considering writing a grocery list WebApp for Flo and I that uses it. - You Might Be Breathing Ineffectively. Here’s How to Fix That
I’m breathing wrong? Fuck you, lifehacker. - Twitter Blocked in Turkey as Prime Minister Pledges to ‘Eradicate’ It
Well, this din’t work: Turkey’s Attempt to Block Twitter is Backfiring Spectacularly - The Deeply Weird World of Extreme Dog Grooming
I fear for Charlie Brown once Flo reads this. - Teacher Breaks Bad, Runs $1.5m Coke Lab Out of His Home
- Take a Tequila Shot for Weight Loss
Alright, I will. - Twitter May Indulge Our Vanity by Showing View Counts for Tweets
I have this in my twitter feed. It’s just sad. Basically nobody reads my tweets. - Watching These Dogs Confused by a Magic Trick is Hilariously Cute
- Pakistan Erased an Entire International New York Times Cover Story
- No Winners for $1bn NCAA Challenge
- How Hollywood Has Destroyed America
Love this. - Anti-Social Network Helps You Avoid People You Don’t Want to See
I’ve read about this in a few places this week, but Fast Company has the best headline about it. “Anti-Social Network.”
And we’re done for another week! Until next time, internet!
10 Easy Edibles to Grow in Containers
Check out this ideabook from houzz.com – so want to do a couple of these, to start.
Flo is planning on growing food on our balcony this year.
I purchased the stupid $400 headphones that I’ve mentioned once or twice before.
I already love them. Last night while Flo was out walking the dog I tried listening to a bunch of different types of music (some hip-hop, some classic rock, and some classical) and it all sounded amazing (currently playing: Kleerup’s self-titled album).
When she got home she was in the bedroom doing something, and I was vaguely aware of some noises in the apartment. I hit pause and I could hear Charlie barking. It sounded so much like he was outside in the hallway that I actually got up to go see what was going on, and let him in if he’d somehow been left out there.
Once I’d taken the headphones off and I didn’t have the benefit of noise cancelling I could hear that he wasn’t actually in the hallway at all – he was standing about eight feet from me.
I purchased the stupid $400 headphones that I’ve mentioned once or twice before.
I already love them. Last night while Flo was out walking the dog I tried listening to a bunch of different types of music (some hip-hop, some classic rock, and some classical) and it all sounded amazing (currently playing: Kleerup’s self-titled album).
When she got home she was in the bedroom doing something, and I was vaguely aware of some noises in the apartment. I hit pause and I could hear Charlie barking. It sounded so much like he was outside in the hallway that I actually got up to go see what was going on, and let him in if he’d somehow been left out there.
Once I’d taken the headphones off and I didn’t have the benefit of noise cancelling I could hear that he wasn’t actually in the hallway at all – he was standing about eight feet from me.
Five Essential Windows 8.1 Time-Saving Tweaks
Bypass the lock screen; boot directly to the desktop; add app shortcuts to the Start menu; use one hand to drag and drop items via your laptop’s touch pad; and shut down quickly via keyboard shortcuts. Read this article by Dennis O’Reilly on CNET.
I just installed Windows 8.1. It only took about 10 minutes to get things set up the way I wanted them, but I hated the default settings.
Also, this: How to Sign Into Windows 8 Without a Microsoft Account
Do Not Trigger Real Event Names with jQuery!
Avoid triggering real event names when using jQuery’s trigger method.
I post this link because I was writing some code earlier in the week and I was about to do exactly what this article tells us all not to do. Then I happened upon David Walsh’s article here and it actually led me to an even better solution than the one he suggests.
Until I read this I had no idea you could define your own custom events in jQuery and then trigger them later, but the winning solution is actually proposed by somebody in the comments section on David’s site: you can namespace your custom-named events. So:
$('#element').on('click.tabs', function() {
....
}
gets triggered when the element is actually clicked, or can be triggered programmatically with
$('#element').trigger('click.tabs');
the beauty here is that no other click events assigned to that element or its parents get triggered – we’re specifically targeting the namespaced event. If you’ve accidentally defined two .click() handling functions, or if there’s a .click() function on the parent element, the programmatic trigger doesn’t flow through to them.
Here’s a demo of what I’m talking about. Check out the difference between the three “trigger” links.