I've always be interested in models / prop / knick knacks I was just never really pursued this interest much. Recently I have been watching several YouTube series that cover prop making and weather. It has really been very interesting to me, perhaps it is the attention to detail and getting the prop just right. Never the less I decided that I wanted to try my hand at making a prop. I deiced to start... more
uppercut.js is a collection of classes, bindings, and helpers that extend knockout.js. Over the course of the last few years I have spent a large amount of time working on or with Knockout.js. There are features and helpers that I personally wish it had that do not make sense as part of the library as a whole. This is either because it would increase dependency scope, requiring Jquery, or because they are to opinionated about... more
Recently we acquired a printrbot metal plus 3D printer at the CenturyLink Cloud office (we have a small group of makers here). I wanted to add a heated bed but this upgrade requires more current than the default laptop style power supply that was supplied. more
See how you can use multiple CSS backgrounds to create a small neat loading animation. more
Here is another common helper function/type that I use frequently. I often find myself writing edit forms with knockout and it seems that I always want to have a cancel button on those edit forms. TrackableObservable tracks its original value so that you can call the reset and it will revert back to the original value. I have seen a few implementations of this type but they all seemed to wait for a “commit” action... more