Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

q – tool for making and composing asynchronous promises in JavaScript

q – tool for making and composing asynchronous promises in JavaScript

If a function cannot return a value or throw an exception without blocking, it can return a promise instead. A promise is an object that represents the return value or the thrown exception that the function may eventually provide. A promise can also be used as a proxy for a remote object to overcome latency.

p5.js – a JavaScript drawing library

p5.js – a JavaScript drawing library.

p5.js is a JavaScript library that starts with the original goal of Processing, to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners, and reinterprets this for today’s web.

Using the original metaphor of a software sketchbook, p5.js has a full set of drawing functionality. However, you’re not limited to your drawing canvas, you can think of your whole browser page as your sketch! For this, p5.js has addon libraries that make it easy to interact with other HTML5 objects, including text, input, video, webcam, and sound.

Fiverr redesigns the site for version 3

fiverr-v3

Fiverr is introducing a new, redesigned website, which is now at version 3.  It’s slicker and simpler.  There are more categories and subcategories.  And overall it seems more focused.  I think Fiverr spent some time thinking over the direction they want to go, and they figured it out:

Since our founding, Fiverr aims to make buying a service as easy as buying a product on Amazon. Our goal is to provide an “e-commerce experience” that empowers our creative community to package their skills as products, enabling the buying and selling of services in just a few clicks, while eliminating unnecessary sales friction. We call this concept SaaP (Services-as-a-Product).

I like this new look.  Much more than the old one.  And I’ve tried to stay away from the old one, because Fiverr is addictive.  Once you buy something, all you want to do is keep buying.  This the 21st century shopping mall.  I don’t just want products.  I want products built specifically for me.  And I want them cheap.  And that’s Fiverr for you.