Your Options for Preloading Images With JavaScript, by @macarthur.me:

https://macarthur.me/posts/preloading-images/

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Your options for preloading images with JavaScript

There are a number of ways to preload an image on demand with JavaScript — each with their own strengths & drawbacks. Let's explore them.

Alex MacArthur

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Preloading images with JavaScript · Strengths and weaknesses of different techniques https://ilo.im/16bsum

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Your options for preloading images with JavaScript

There are a number of ways to preload an image on demand with JavaScript — each with their own strengths & drawbacks. Let's explore them.

Alex MacArthur

twitter is a happy place

SYK!

hell no!

Thanks to the power of the fediverse and following the right people a skillfull fellow mastodon dropped the nitter bomb on me a couple of days ago.

Of course I asked first what it is, then both replied that it's a front end to the twitter api (yes to me only twitter existed till it was murdered by little elon) which never reveals you, meaning I can not only access my old accounts which I have downloaded (of course thousands of tweets!) conveniently as it is frozen in time. I have the imagery in front of me, instead of that large JSON pack

deleting twitter accounts will not erase the data automagically{servers never erase!})

I now thank the people who gave me another TIL

sources

https://nitter.net/

https://nitter.net/vMakenas

@fuzzy
@rl_dane

#nitter #twitter #API #elon #retro #site #advanced #no #javascript

Nitter
🚀✨ Behold, the epic saga of SMS delivery that somehow managed to make the postal service look cutting-edge! 🙄📬 Join us on a thrilling journey where #JavaScript holds the key to unlocking the mysteries of why your text message now requires a PhD in #telecommunications. 📱🔓
https://blog.bridgexapi.io/the-anatomy-of-sms-delivery-from-request-to-carrier #SMSdelivery #postalservice #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated