I have been poking at the Milwaukee County Trasit System (MCTS) APIs over the past few weeks. A few years ago, I tried to write a bus app using Angular and it just didn’t work out well. I figured that I would try it again, using what I have learned since then. The first step …
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Over the holidays, I created Good Morning, Milwaukee! (a Mastodon bot that posts a “Good Morning” toot every morning). The problem is that it hasn’t been behaving correctly since shortly after I finished it. I want to simplify it a bit, so I can make it a little less fragile. The first component of the …
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Yup, I am. Last year, I posted a lot about how I was building a state parks app to help with my goal of eventually visiting every park in the Wisconsin State Parks system. The most recent post was around November, though. Well, I am working on the app again and I am hoping to …
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Today, we are going to look at three ways to add a modal dialog to your app. The first option just uses CSS and JavaScript (no special libraries). The second option uses Bootstrap (a topic that I haven’t touched in a few years). The third and final option uses Bulma. I looked back at my …
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Previously, we have covered how to identify where the user is, based upon navigator.geolocation and based upon their IP address (there are definitely ways to make IP-based geolocation suck less). I figured that in today’s post, we would look at how to go from an arbitrary physical location (zip code or city name) to latitude …
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There are times when it is very important to know as much as you can about the user of your application. A good example is how I need to know where the user physically is in order to calculate the distance between them and the park in the state parks app. Another example is if …
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Last week, I wrote about creating a cloudflare worker. When I created that worker, I knew that I wanted to leverage that for the state parks app. This week, I created three new workers: one to get the user’s location, one to get the list of parks, and one to get an individual park. Let’s …
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Back in July, we looked at how Vue CLI and webpack work and I figured that it was time to look at Vue Router, as a follow-up. Vue Router is going to be pretty necessary for the state parks app, moving forward. Like I did last time, I used VueCLI and Bulma. I also put …
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This is going to be a pretty quick post (mainly because I am on vacation, next week). I was skimming through what is new in ECMAScript 2021 and spotted replaceAll(). It is already supported in everything except for Internet Explorer. Let’s take a look at a quick example. See the Pen String.prototype.replaceAll() Example by Joe …
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At work, I use webpack all the time but it is with laravel. On this blog, I haven’t written much about laravel (something that I eventually want to correct). I do want to address the deficit of webpack content today, though.
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