As I posted earlier, I held a Sonic Pi music programming workshop for the 9th graders of Viialan yhtenäiskoulu. It was great. I really enjoyed it. The day was split in two sessions (a couple of hours each) and the goal was to first touch Sonic Pi gently, then get to play with it, and … [Read more…]
Google has just revealed Android Instant Apps at their annual Google I/O developer conference. This struck me as something extraordinary wicked. No kidding. In the past: Your friend sends you a link to a website / you read about something interesting and head to a website The website has a dedicated app… which is compulsory … [Read more…]
I started digging into JavaScript development a little over a year ago. I built my first JS app with jQuery and Ractive. Ractive is, as they say, a template-driven UI library which gives you an easy way to build interactive applications (front-ends) very easily and quickly. I chose Ractive without any spesific reason. I checked out their … [Read more…]
A year ago I saw a job offering by a wee Finnish company called Mehackit. They were offering some sort of creative technology courses for secondary schools and needed teachers. I contacted them. Fast-forward to September 2015 and I was in a middle of a training weekend near Hämeenlinna with a dozen like-minded people roughly … [Read more…]
I had one thought wandering in my mind during the weekend: a blog post or a beginning of a series of blog posts titled Things I learned this week. I thought about it so much, you know the hows and ifs and whys, that in the end I didn’t do it. So here are some keywords concerning … [Read more…]
This is really great. I love it. HTTPS, bring it on! So what Mozilla is aiming to do is to ship Firefox 44 with some new security enhancements: every page, that contains a login form, but is served over plain HTTP, will be marked with the so-really-user-friendly broken padlock. You’ll get the same lock if … [Read more…]
Looking for a reliable, easy to use, and free hosting provider for your static web pages or single page app (SPA)? Or are you one of those people who would like to see GitHub Pages support HTTP 200 response for client-side routing instead of spoiling your urls with !#? I urge you to try surge.sh. Very … [Read more…]