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The phrase “in your own backyard” has changed

Geographically, it used to mean something near you and accessible within a short travel distance. Modern transportation changed that. It used to mean your own, neighborhood, town, city or state, then the car came along and it expanded the borders of what “in your own backyard” means. In communications, it… Read more

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Cognitive overload

The human brain is an amazingly complex system. It has the capacity to store tons of data. Some neuroscientists estimate that it can store somewhere between 10 to 100 terabytes and others as high as 2.5 petabytes. One terabyte holds roughly 1000 gigabytes and one petabyte 1000 terabytes. To put… Read more

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Gestalt laws of grouping

The Gestalt laws of grouping are a set of psychological principles that came out of the work of German psychologists Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kohler in the early 20th century. They set out to understand how humans gain meaningful perceptions between objects from the world around them. Humans… Read more

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Creating Angular 1 components in ES2015 syntax

Recently I have been working on transitioning my company’s Angular 1x Single Page Application(SAP) to ES2015 to prepare us to update to Angular 2 in the feature. At work we are using Webpack as our bundler with the Babel 6 loader to transpile our code back to ES5. Note that… Read more

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Using HTML5 validation to validate URLs

Recently I came across Raymond Camden’s blog post on how to use HTML5 form validation with pure JavaScript. I thought I would write the URL version. I know, I’m totally stealing his code.