John Meiert' blog

theMage: John is a frontend developer and author of several books, most of them about frontend development

Hash IDs

theMage: Hash IDs are generated from sequencial ids, but are not sequencial, so they can be used in urls without exposing the progression rate of the base IDs

Climeworks

theMage: Climeworks is a company dedicated at removing CO2 from the atmosphere. They allow individuals to signup to have CO2 removed for them.

Exact instructions challenge - peanut butter and jelly

theMage: A father (Josh Darnit) follow instructions from his kids on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich very precisely.

How to deal with difficult people on software projects

theMage: This is a visual entry point to the list of posts on Neil on software about how to deal with difficult people who are often involved in software projects.

Boox - epaper tablets

theMage: Boox have several different models of tablets with e-ink (including color e-ink) screens, based on Android operating system.

P1 smart meter reader

theMage: Hardware schema and software to read metrics from P1 electrical smart meters used in the Benelux.

Poem - the plan

theMage: This is a small "poem" about how the perception of a plan evolves through the hierarchy of a company

Asciinema - record your terminals

theMage: Asciinema is a tool to record your (text) terminal and share it as a video - and you can still copy from the video. It is an amazing tool to record tech demos or tutorials.