JS Spread syntax for arrays vs objects
Noticed a small quirk today in the JavaScript spread syntax: If you have three values:
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Shadow DOM, isConnected, and focus
I’ve been working with https://lit.dev elements and want to summarize what I’ve learned about Shadow DOM and Focus:
Font Copyright
I’ve been reading about font copyright, especially in german law in order to get a better understanding of all the rights and protections applicable to the Standard and SiFoX Fonts in Signum for the Atari ST.
QName-to-URI mapping
Looking deeper into the origins of representing namespaced elements in braced syntax, it looks like the issue of a canonical mapping from QName to a URI has a long history at the W3C:
XPath Data Model for encoding XML as JSON
There is a model for mapping arbitrary XML to a JSON-like data model. Consider the following document:
XML Normalization
It seems like a lot of people despise XML and consider it obsolete. But I would argue that is not the case and beautiful XML is very much possible if we apply the learnings from Database normalization.
Box-Drawing Mojibake
At $dayjob I recently came across the string “f├╝r” and was wondering what kind of Mojibake that was.
SDO Studio v0.0.1
During the pandemic I created a small tool that would read and transform documents created using Signum! 1/2 for the Atari ST. It’s a CLI application, initially created for debugging the format, so the user experience is suboptimal.
Hello World
Hello World!