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Lazy Loading Images with ES5

Browsers typically load all of the images on the page as soon as possible. This is called eager loading. Sometimes, it's best if we wait to load images until we need them. This is called lazy loading. Lazy loading is a great technique for speeding up page load times and decreasing page sizes.

coding | 2019.10.20 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Korean Culture From An American Perspective: Censorship

Censorship in Korea is very different from that in America. In America, we bleep out a bunch of words that some people are too dirty, and nudity is very rare on television. When watching Korean television, it's not uncommon to see cigarettes, tattoos, or knives blurred out. Those are all expected forms of censhorship, and today I'm going to talk about a somewhat more unexpected form of censorship.

korea | 2019.02.24 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

How to Run Vue in a Rails App

I recently saw an amazing way to integrate Vue into a Rails project, and I wanted to share it here! It's a super easy method that makes it dead-simple to pass data from Rails views into Vue componnets. Not only that, but it only requires that you have a single pack entrypoint for all of your Vue components!

coding, rails, vue | 2019.02.17 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Formatting Inputs with Cleave.js in a Vue/Typescript/Rails Project

Cleave.js is a super cool JavaScript library that lets you force the formatting of an input. It works for credit card numbers, dates, and several other kinds of formatted text. If you haven't heard of it before, check out the demos on the Cleave.js homepage.

coding, vue, typescript | 2019.02.10 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Don't Donate to CamelCamelCamel

A few days ago, CamelCamelCamel went offline due to some issues with their database. They lost a few hard drives and needed to recover the data on them. The drives were large and expensive, and the data recovery process was also pricey. To help offset the cost of this, they asked their users to donate. I'm upset about this, and you should be too.

2019.02.03 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson
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