Bmeter: Pure Client Side Single Page App

Hackathon, yay!

I was tasked with upgrading the Bchirometer, a simple single page app (SPA), to a narrow (first?) UI, given a bunch of sketches in PNGs.

Rewriting, really. Repo was a mess of drafts, and… nu.

App uses Open Knesset‘s data, but otherwise it’s independent — separate (sub)domain. Not even same servers: it’s on S3, because pure client side, aka static.

(I still (it’s 2015!) can’t understand why open/activist projects use obsolete technologies: Django, Bootstrap, and other, unmentionable, crap. What would Ivan Illich have said? I’m still revolting against “worse is better“.)

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Stepping Into Node Streams Twice

CLI for transforming some JSON — Chromium’s bookmarks, specifically — into HTML, for quick (and dirty) publishing here.

And while we’re at it, let’s ponder Node streams again?

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LevelUP: Promises, Promises…

Promisifying LevelDB in Node to escape callback hell…

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EvilMVC

Notes towards…

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Express Authentication

Authentication (and authorization?) with Express for RESTful APIs.

As usual with Node, too many existing solutions — and their documentation sucks.

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Template for Request for Proposal, Requirements & Design Specifications

Been cloning this document for so long, so many times…

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MVP

And… yet another web app. A POC, or MVP, pivot, all this biz speak. Idea (“hypothesis”) was to do a catalog, user generated content (UGC), semi-structured (folksonomies, but with added semantics), which can then be drilled down, interactively, in un/foreseeable ways. Nu, I had some ideas.

Anyway, Paula Borowska explains MVP goals/principles well:

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HTML Templating: CoffeeCup? Teacup!

Neat! Would’ve used Jade, but CoffeeCup is maybe even…

I’ve used CC with Zappa before, and now integrating it into Constitution.

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Yet Another Web App

Years now, it seems, I’ve been building countless web apps using mostly the same technologies and some variations. Time to make an official platform?

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LevelDB in Node: Resources

My “map” for the (scary and exciting, iconoclastic zeitgeist/post-modern) LevelDB/Node maze.

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