Creating a dictionary type object with ES6 Symbols is easy. Yes we have Maps and WeakMaps but this is still interesting for a variety of reasons… Being able to use objects as keys in another object (dictionary) has many great uses…. So how do you use Symbols like this?
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let a = { id: Symbol(’key’) },
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I have so many little snippets like this laying around, at first I didn’t remember writing this when I found it the other day… then it slowly came back to me.
Looks like this is another one from the jQuery days:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title></title>
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Was just watching this funny video on Numberphile:
Here is the Surreal Numbers book on archive.org:
https://archive.org/stream/SurrealNumbers/Knuth-SurrealNumbers#page/n7
Got a kick out of the story around this stuff… When Knuth shows the notation for surreal numbers I suddenly remembered a weird program I’d written awhile back.
OVM
I had been out drawing in my sketchbook one sunday (almost 2 years ago) [...]
In 2015 I created QuickShader… which just takes the boilerplate out of showing a shader in the browser. Here are a few examples:
Have a look on github: https://github.com/ZevanRosser/QuickShader