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In the previous article we showed how to automate the migration from callbacks to async/await for Mocha tests using jscodeshift. We started from the jscodeshift-ts-template repo and added the final implementation to the ts-codemods repo. We know by now that not all code can be automatically migrated. So is there anything else we can do? If you happen to use some known test libraries or frameworks that come with their …

The original hotel idea was first mooted in 1791, at a meeting in the Three Crowns, when the discussion of a new hotel, assembly rooms and coffee house was debated. This eventually resulted in the Assemby Rooms Hotel Street, as the hotel part hadn’t materialised in the original idea, one was builtadjoining the Assembly Rooms fronting Horsefair Street, August 7th 1801. Capital Inn and Hotel to be Let with or …

I've released a major update to my article, "A deep dive into CRT modelines and EDID editing". I've expanded on getting a VGA output using HDMI-to-VGA adapters (DACs), reading, writing, and editing EDID data on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and tuning modelines in CRU to improve geometry and sharpness. If you're interested in using CRT monitors on computers, be sure to check it out!

My family wasn't poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught "it's a poor craftsman that blames their tools", which apparently means "take responsibility for your fuckups", but, to young-me, definitely sounded more like "you don't deserve nice things".

Puppy Love is a loving documentary about a healthy litter of Labrador puppies that suddenly become paralyzed. Their breeder, Cindy, is advised to put them down, but she resolves to make them better, taking back every dog that falls ill from their adopters to dedicate her time and resources to their health. In fact, her goal is not only to help them walk, it is to help them thrive as …

The sacking of Steve Bell by the Guardian after a row over a Netanyahu cartoon says more about the problems at the newspaper than it does about the veteran cartoonist. The Guardian’s page for the award-winning Steve Bell today The Guardian lost the plot two decades ago with the massively expensive decision to switch from its broadsheet format into the smaller Berliner size, halfway between tabloid and broadsheet. It threw …

Would you like to become better at crafting pull requests and reviewing code? Here are the 13 tips from my latest book that you can use in your daily developer activity.

The 1976 Fender Guitar catalogue was fairytale-themed. Lot of links today, not much commentary, just to get rid of a few open browser/mental tabs. Currently: Maybe part of it is just that you can hear what the characters are saying. Watching: All the President’s Men. The definitive paperwork movie. For a film that’s almost completely made up of people making phone calls and writing things down, it never feels slow …

(There are some photos, with appropriate warnings, at the end of this entry.)I started using a wheelchair on and off from around the age of 17 years until, eventually, I had to use it full-time; I made the conscious decision to stop walking on my 30th birthday, in 2003, and a consequence of this was that my feet would swell slightly due to the lack of use and movement. A …

Billions of exoplanets orbit their Suns in our galaxy and more than a few are likely to be habitable. But are any inhabited? The Habitable World Observatory is not being designed and developed to give our best answer to that question. (PHL@UPR Arecibo, ESA/Hubble, NASA) In a solar system far, far away, life of some sort is just waiting to be found. Or so the world of astrobiology sure hopes …

From the Whitney Museum of Modern Art: On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith, we spoke to Greil Marcus about the reverberations felt around the world after the 1952 release of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. “It was a sensibility—this set that Harry Smith created—that was passed on to people. Where it said to them, ‘There’s more in this music. There’s …

This blog post will delve into the details of each tool you need for plein air painting.

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Transit Maps has never taken a look at the map for Portland’s northern neighbour, the (original) Vancouver. With the recent addition of their second “The Vine” BRT route along Mill Plain Boulevard, now seems like a good time. At first glance, it seems to be a pretty solid map with some nicely simplified geography and routes clearly delineated. To my eyes, it seems to take some design …

I used to have a blog on wordpress.com called “Proper Gander”, so I revived the name but added a heavy metal umlaut1. To avoid unnecessary disappointment, please don’t expect me to stick to a particular theme, topic, or schedule. caveat lector Any opinions I post are mine unless attributed, and should not be mistaken for my employers' views or those of their clients or partners. Nothing I post here should …

My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My parents didn’t really know what to do with me but, somehow, my mother learnt of adventure training courses run by the Scottish Council of Physical Education (now Sportscotland) at Glenmore Lodge a Highland centre near …