[GoLUG] CSS Lifeboat and Speedboat at GoLUG, 9/4/2024 7PM Eastern Daylight Time

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Steve Litt wrote on 2024-09-02 23:34:

> The Wednesday, 9/4/2024 GoLUG meeting commences at 7pm
> Eastern Daylight Time online at meet.jit.si/golug [1].
> 
> ====================================================
> Who: Steve Litt, presenter.
> 
> What: CSS Lifeboat and Speedboat.

Anyone interested in pursuing more CSS would be well served to check out 
Kevin Powell's YouTube channel all about CSS:

https://www.youtube.com/user/KepowOb


Another channel covering the topic in a very unique way is Hyperplexed:

https://www.youtube.com/@Hyperplexed


That guy's *amazing* - video production quality is 10/10 and his scripts 
- he's made videos that were entirely done in rhyme, just for fun.

And it was engaging and informative too.

Usually he finds a web site design he likes and quickly walks through 
re-creating it, so we get to see him break down the problem and tackle 
each component, all in roughly 5 minutes.

i.e.:  CSS tutorial, but it has to rhyme (03m14s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6h2ZvR5SX0





Finally, a couple thoughts on Node.js:

Great for debugging / developing JavaScript in the CLI, especially handy 
for algorithms.

Uses a lot of "bash-isms" like file management, pipes, stdin & stdout.


Fun terminology too: be sure to drain your streams before the 
highwatermark is hit, lest too much back pressure builds up.  Putting a 
cork in it can help...

Or, just pipe between streams and all the backpressure issues are taken 
care of.


(The above relates to streaming from, say, a 10Gbps source and a 5Mbps 
target without requiring a lot of RAM buffers.)


rb