Hi,

The article on making French baguettes is great, thank you very much. I'll be using it as a reference material in my more advanced kitchen experiments.

There was a note about using a pan at the base of the oven for steaming. Rather than using an actual pan, one could potentially utilise an improvised container made from a sheet of aluminium foil.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Petteri

You likely already know this, but I figure it's important to mention, the reason a lot of React devs try to do everything the "React" way and send data back "up" to some injected global store is because it makes it easier to mock and test React applications this way, because everything remains contained within React and can easily be mocked using props or Providers, and the entire application state can quickly be replicated (including the status bar info without having to dispatch an event).

Your post does remind me of Mithril.js which has global state redraws by default, so having state defined outside your application is very natural, and the resulting app ends up looking very vanilla.

import m from 'mithril';

// global state in scope; tuck this in state.js and import wherever
const state = { num: 0 };

const actions = {
  increment() {
    state.num += 1;
  }
};

function App() {
  // local state via vanilla closures since the outer function only executes on mount
  let localVar = 'cool';

  return {
    view: () => (
      <div>
        <p>{state.num}</p>
        <button onclick={actions.increment}>increment</button>

        <p>{localVar}</p>
        <input type="text" oninput={({ target }) => localVar = target.value} />
      </div>
    )
  };
}

m.mount(document.body, App);

There's a link in your blog entry "Localization is hard" that isn't working correctly. The pseudo-link "background in Japanese" about 80% of the way down the page should redirect to https://pomax.github.com/NRGrammar but instead returns a 'Post redirection' notification that says the redirect will fail if JavaScript is disabled. JavaScript isn't disabled on my machine however. I've tried both Chrome and Safari (MacOS).

FWIW I see you're on Vancouver Island, a nice place to live. I'm not that far across the water from you on the Sunshine Coast.

Pomax/BezierInfo-2#117

This is a comment to http://pomax.github.io/1473270609919/if-you-use-use-document-write-you-suck-at-javascript

I have this HTML code at the bottom of my site:

<script src="/js/ext/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  window.Promise || document.write('<script src="/js/ext/promise.min.js"><\x3C/script>')
</script>
<script src="/js/ext/picker.min.js"></script>
<script src="/js/ext/marked.min.js"></script>
<script src="/js/site-client.min.js"></script>

So, I use document.write to synchronously insert a Promises polyfill only when the browser doesn’t support them natively (IE, etc.). What do you think of this pattern? Is it legit? 😋

We are still terrible at digital photography

• we should capture 3D (matched image sensor to LIDAR)
• we should capture light functions, not accumulation (obviate HDRI)
• we should capture better than rec.2020, becaues the world is green, and guess what we keep not capturing
• we should capture light fields
• we should capture the whole image, not "the optimal-for-film rectangle".

Should be illegal if missing:

• USB-C for data as well as (fast) charging
• using the camera while it's charging
• full camera control over USB: the camera's firmware should have mirror-apps for win/linux/macos/android/ios with the exact same content, using the exact same menus, and sync those by wire or over the air
  • Not "suites", fuck that noise: dedicated applications specific to that camera that come with your camera on a USB drive, and are updated in lockstep with firmware updates.
• data transfer of any data on the SD card, byte for byte over wire or air (NFC, WiFi, USB)

Some things really need to go:

• top LED menus: nice bright touch screens have been a thing for years.
• physical shutters: electronic shutters are superior in every way
• mirrors: EVT show what the camera sees, and is just a video stream so you can add overlays, processing, etc. (heck, add a dedicated 'show pure' button, similar to ancient DSLR's DOF preview)

Can we finally ditch "film settings" and adopt "digital media settings"?

• ISO values: leveling curve + LUTs
• white balance options: curves/LUTs, again
• E/V compensation: oh look, curves/LUTs, again
• Filter presets: OH LOOK, CURVES/LUTs AGAIN!
• all these things are different sides of the same die, and all of these can be zeroes out with built in color calibration: shoot XRite Color Passport or similar device and be done 99% of the time.

Can we also ditch these ridiculous "not even our fault~!" things:

• video recording length limit: NO ONE CARES about the fact that your camera costs more if you have to pay the video camera tax. Fucking work it in.
• custom batteries: USB-C fast charging is universal, battery banks are universal, there isn't even any math to do here: stop wasting money on proprietary batteries.

I like it very EasyPageComments, but I would like to know how the admin can cancel a comment. Thank you

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Hi Pomax,

I just found your Primer on Bézier and It has help me a lot, Thanks you for such a useful resource.

I was reading about the problems you faced to localize the content, and in the last section you say you still have a problem with the text in the interactive graphics.

Maybe I'm missing something but if I'm reading the content in say japanese, don't I have the font to display text in japanese?, and for the alignment problem maybe you can replace the canvas text with html, if you use an inline element the browser will give you the text dimension.

you can style the element to looks like it is a text drawn in the canvas and maybe a max-width/max-height.

P.S.: sorry about my english.

Hi Pomax,

I really liked your blog post about the Kitchen knives. I saw your other blog post - about the Youtube channel that you had started. It would be very helpful, if you can also make a video about how to use these knives in a video. Since we (I'm originally from India), never used so many different knives, I'm not able to relate to when/how to use these various knives. Thank you!

No reason to do this manually when github actions are a thing.

https://github.com/Wholemy/PathSource
Wholemy.BezTest.zip

If you need video: https://t.me/wholemy

Thank you for your code, I was able to improve my curve rendering at the expense of your code and achieve high performance when thickening curves) But you should think about it to improve your algorithm) I have attached the source code of the test application on the basis of which I was trying to improve the drawing of curves) It is written in C# in Visual Studio 2022)

Leaving a comment on github is pretty easy. Yes, you need to log in, but if you really care about that comment you wanted to leave, that shouldn't be much of a problem (and if signing up for an account is a step too far, then you know exactly how much you cared).

I decided to go with github issues because if you just want to post a throwaway comment, then you can always Tweet to me about it and we can both count on that interaction losing traction and being forgotten by everyone in about a day. That's fine, we should be able to have those interactions, but those kind of interactions don't need to be intrinsically tied to the blog posts themselves.

If you want to leave a real comment, one that requires meaningful and direct interaction between you and me (say you a found glaring problem with one of my posts, or you have information that you think would help me update a post or write a new one, or you have real questions after reading a post and need additional information), then this is a much better place to have a conversation that can guide real change to my posts.

Get an account if you don't have one (it's free), and then file a new isssue about what you want to talk about - I'll typically respond the same day, because if you care enough to comment, I certainly care enough to engage with you.

• Pomax

Some SO posts are worth pointing to as educational material I've written.

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78601241/3d-css3-transforms-handling-with-dommatrix-issue/78603657
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78518664/how-does-a-banking-motion-affect-the-pitch-and-yaw/78518869
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78461012/proportionally-scaling-objects-within-another-object-when-rotated/78473384
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78214820/get-third-control-point-quadratic-bezier-curve-for-parabola-with-given-fucus-and/78216720
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78088888/how-to-calculate-the-midpoints-of-each-triangle-edges-of-an-icosahedron/78091070
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76535073/creating-a-png-idat-chunk-in-nodejs/76535330
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20940968/dynamically-change-prototype-for-instance-in-javascript/70614658
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67391828/convert-hyperbola-to-b%c3%a9zier-curve-for-graphing-orbital-paths/67450514
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63387813/why-wont-window-btoa-work-on-characters-in-javascript/63387912
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49415788/fragment-id-linking-in-wagtails-rich-text-content/55128373
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51879836/cubic-bezier-curves-get-y-for-given-x-special-case-where-x-of-control-points/51883347
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52680926/how-to-indicate-missing-glyphs-in-a-sbix-truetype-opentype-font-table/52691237