Month: November 2018

Glider.js – fast, light-weight, dependency free, responsive, native scrolling list with paging controls

For anyone who needs an image gallery or any scrolling list for that matter, Glider.js looks like a good option.  It’s super simple to use, light, responsive, and dependency free.  Have a look at some demos here.

What’s something very few people know about PHP?

“What’s something very few people know about PHP?” blog post (and Quora answer) provides some more impressive stats and links about the popularity of the PHP programming language.

This goes well with this recent post.

Awful AI – a curated list of the current scary usages of AI

Awful AI :

Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI – hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society

Artificial intelligence in its current state is unfair, easily susceptible to attacks and notoriously difficult to control. Nevertheless, more and more concerning the uses of AI technology are appearing in the wild. This list aims to track all of them. We hope that Awful AI can be a platform to spur discussion for the development of possible contestational technology (to fight back!).

It’s great that someone is working on raising awareness!

Google Trends for REST, GraphQL and RPC

Here’s an interesting look at Google Trends for REST API, RPC, and GraphQL.  There’s also a link to the actual Google Trends, in case you want to play with it.  For example, here’s how it looks with the addition of the SOAP (as a protocol though, rather than search term which is way too generic):