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  • My 10 simple UX rules

    My 10 simple UX rules

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    Creating a user interface that offers a positive user experience (UX) requires a certain level of skill, and admittedly, design is not my primary area of expertise as I am a programmer. Nevertheless, I have gathered some fundamental principles over the years that aid me in delivering a satisfactory user interface. 1. Always respond to…

  • VSCode keyboard shortcuts I’m actually using

    VSCode keyboard shortcuts I’m actually using

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    Visual Studio Code contains centillions of keyboard shortcuts, but in everyday life I use only a fraction of them. I have also mapped them to key combinations that are easier to access. These three-finger shortcuts are really crazy, while others I never use, like “Cursor Undo”, are mapped to “Ctrl-U”.Your mileage may vary, but I…

  • How to loop through an array with a variable starting element

    How to loop through an array with a variable starting element

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    Recently I was faced with an interesting problem. I needed to create a simplified (pseudo-) cron interface: The task is to find the next selected day.

  • The modern way of checking radio groups

    The modern way of checking radio groups

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    Checking radio groups in JavaScript has always been a bit tricky because you can only check if a particular radio button is selected, not the whole group at once. Wow, that looks archaic. There must be a better way using the new ES6 features, and there is! As of ES2015, NodeList contains a forEach method().…

  • Chrome side panel: Simulate close event

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    The new side panel in Chrome does not contain a close event, which could come handy if you want to clean up stuff after the panel has been closed. You can simulate the event by opening a permanent connection between the side panel and the background script. This connection fires an onDisconnect event if the…

  • Firefox Addon: Add options menu to addon icon

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    Especially during development it’s annoying to reach the option page of a Firefox addon: Hamburger Addons and Themes … Options There should be a faster way. At least for your own Add-ons you can quite easily add an “Options” menu item to the browser action: Additionally to have to add a new permission to the…

  • Set selections in a multiple select element with ES6

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    If you’re looking on the web for a solution to programmatically set the selections of a multiple select element in JavaScript you most likely find answers using jQuery, an indexed loop and an if condition, or some other complicated stuff. Modern browsers and ES6 gives you a simple solution in (almost) a single line of…

  • Show your desktop

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    I know loads of WordPress developers by name and have an idea how they look. What I also find interesting is the way people work. Do they use a laptop, how many monitors do they use and other stuf). Here’s my desktop (I’ve tidied it up before taking the image :-)): The machine is an…

  • HTML/PHP: Single and double quotes

    HTML/PHP: Single and double quotes

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    If PHP programmers are creating a link from variables often you can see the following code: echo ” . $linktext . ”; or ?>