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2021-11-14

Javascript Templating

Text templating/substitution (also known as string interpolation) is really nice to have. I’ve found this very useful in Javascript when building simple browser apps that call a SPARQL server. In fact I recently wrote this up as a paper, with a couple of little demos, proposing a pattern I call Sparql Diamonds. However, I missed a trick. I used the...

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2021-10-04

Drawing a Million Dots

tl;dr : Live demo, code on github, a million dots (maybe) Edit 2021-10-07 : I’ve tweaked the code to allow upload of arbitrary images and be able to change the parameters Big numbers feature a lot on the news. But how does one visualize millions, billions, trillions..? There are a bunch of things I want to write in Javascript in...

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2013-11-14

Fad or Evolution?

It can be difficult to tell the difference between things that are truly novel and/or offer genuine improvement and those which are just somehow different but popular. Web tech is a conveyor belt of things that could fall into either category. Recently I’ve encountered a few good examples. In each case there’s no shortage of proponents explaining the benefits of the...

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Javascript Templating

Drawing a Million Dots

Fad or Evolution?