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Imagine you have the following EcmaScript module you want to unit test: // untestable.js const configurationValue = 'something' export function functionToTest () { return configurationValue } The problem is you can’t test it for different values of configurationValue (which, in a real example, might be based on a runtime quality of your app). You can’t because configuration value is private to the module. However,...

My talk at the Department of Art & Media Technology, University of Southampton, on Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. This morning, I was invited to gave a talk at the Department of Art & Media Technology, University of Southampton. I was invited by Adam Procter, a long-time ally who heads up the department, as part of a new series of talks to help shape department...

NodeKit for Codium: a reluctant fork of Svelte Language Tools. This past week, I cobbled together1 a very basic NodeKit extension for Codium. Download 📦 nodekit-for-codium-0.5.0.vsix 💡 What’s NodeKit? Watch the NodeKit video introduction to find out. Install Either drag the downloaded package to the Extensions panel of Codium or, in your terminal, run the following command from the folder you downloaded the package...

“And my timelines lit up in a rare unity, the left and right, the rich and the poor, the healthy and the sick, all pleading and nodding and saying, yes, yes please, please do that.” - Adam Dalliance Well, it’s official, everybody hates Facebook. But why we hate it matters. As does what we intend to do about it. For more good reasons to...

Since the initial demo of NodeKit at last week’s Small Is Beautiful, we now actually have a nodekit command, the server now does naïve restarts on route changes, and routes are now lazily loaded the first time they’re hit. I wanted to record this before jumping down the rabbit hole of implementing some form of hot module reloading/replacement using WebSockets and MorphDOM. Like this?...