Hey folks 👋
What ya learning on this weekend?
Whether you're sharpening your JS skills, making PRs to your OSS repo of choice 😉, sprucing up your portfolio, or writing a new post here on DEV, we'd like to hear about it.
Have a wonderful weekend! Keep on learning, but make sure to take your time and take breaks, so you don't get too burnt out on this stuff... it'll be here for ya when you return!
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I am horning my skills in web scraping using python; specifically BeautifulSoup and requests libraries 😃
Is it difficult to scrape nowadays? With so many blocks
It is challenging. There are many blocks when trying to scrape these big ecommerce/real-estate websites
Learning about cache in Next.js 🫣😅
Been learning how to use OpenAI to run Playwright tests.
ray.run/blog/auto-playwright
So far it has been going really well!
Team Topologies!
This weekend I'm reviewing git fundamentals and starting CSS intermediate level.
That book very good to review git. Controlando versões com Git e GitHub
Still working on RefreshOS
dev.to/jordantylerburchett/refresh...
Fractals!
Fascinating! I've seen fractal patterns and love them.
Are you working with fractals in a visual design sorta way or can they be used logically in an application? Non-dev speaking here, so pardon my ignorance. I'm just imagining an infinitely repeating pattern having the potential to be used for something beyond looking awesome... which hey, it definitely looks awesome. I know there are very special mathematical properties to fractals, but I don't know much beyond that.
Hey, Michael & Piko, I know a little about fractals from my mathematics background. A fractal is a shape with a fractional dimension. Whereas a line fills one dimension and a plane fills two dimensions, a fractal is infinite and takes up an infinite amount of space in a sense, but doesn't fill the entire dimension it's embedded in. So for example the one you posted there takes up part of a plane, but not the whole plane, since it's lacy and leaves a lot of fancy gaps and holes (typically only the points colored black are actually part of the fractal). So its dimension is a number somewhere between 1 and 2. That number is independent of scale, so no matter what small piece of the plane you look at, the fractal takes up that same proportion of the available space. In other words no matter how far you zoom in, you'll see the same level of detail. Fractals are generated by iterative processes and display certain properties, such as repetition of similar structures at vastly different scales. Anyhow, I think your gif is part of the Mandelbrot Set. That's something on my list of apps to make - an app that teaches about the Mandelbrot Set. It's mind-blowing how simple it is to generate, compared with the complexity of the resulting shape. Endlessly fascinating.
Wow, thanks for this detailed explanation, Monty! This is helping me to understand.
Also, cool idea around creating the app that teaches about the Mandelbrot Set... I'd love to check that out!
Thank you! Yeah fractals are super fascinating!
Recently, I have been interested in taking mathematical concepts and using them to create visuals and designs with code. It has been a fun adventure, my most recent interest has been trying to create something with fractals or rather writing recursive functions to create designs. 2 days ago I made a fractal tree with the Canvas html element [In the gif it is the element with the black background]. Today, I started playing with SVG + JS to make a fractal tree. It has been mega fun! [an example is the tree with the white background].
Super cool, Piko! Loving the looks of the fractal tree you created... especially the colorful one, haha. This could probably make for a pretty cool music visualizer.
Digging into SQL
I am getting to know my recently acquired TEC REDSHIFT player in Exapunks so I can make games with it and reading my new zine, The Games Issue, as well ✨
I'm trying to add a way to generate simple html pages on blank html using handlebars framework. So I' reading mostly about handlebars.