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This blog post covers 7 of the best open source jQuery plugins and JavaScript libraries for formatting date and time strings.These plugins (libraries) convert raw timestamps into auto-updating and human-readable format (e.g."30 minutes ago", "3 days ago") to provide users with relatable context about when events occurred or content was published.

Technology company Apple has entered the metaverse market with the announcement of its latest product - a mixed-reality headset that is set to go on sale in the US early next year.Described by CEO Tim Cook as "the first Apple product you look through and not at", the Vision Pro was designed primarily for augmented reality (AR), allowing apps, movies and photos to appear superimposed on the world around the user.

A bedroom is not just a place to sleep but also a space for relaxation and rejuvenation.Therefore, lighting is an essential element in creating a peaceful atmosphere within the bedroom.Proper lighting can enhance the aesthetics of the decor and make the space versatile for different activities.Incorporating different lighting fixtures, such as ambient, task, and accent lighting, can transform the bedroom into a functional and calming space.

VueJS Tour is a lightweight, simple and customizable tour plugin.It provides a quick and easy way to guide your users through your application.Prerequisites
Installation
This section will guide you through the process of installing VueJS Tour.Step 1: Go to your project directory and install VueJS Tour using npm:

cd my-project npm install @globalhive/vuejs-tour

Step 2: Import the plugin in your application entry point (typically main.js):

Google is rolling out more artificial intelligence for its core search product as it responds to Microsoft challenge.Google has unveiled plans to infuse its dominant search engine with more advanced artificial intelligence technology.The move comes three months after Microsoft's Bing search engine started to tap into tech similar to that which powers the artificially intelligent chatbot ChatGPT.

A Rangers season which began with typically lofty expectations could effectively end before May Day.Defeat by Celtic in Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final would extinguish the one lingering hope of silverware from a campaign during which Rangers have continued to wrestle with the frustration of being second best in a two-horse race.

A collection of the latest and hottest design and development resources (Javascript libraries, CSS snippets, DeveloGraphic Design Resources, etc.) on the web from the last week (Week 12, 2023).Web Design & Development News: Collective #494
Trig-JS
The easy way to create CSS scroll animations that react to the position of your HTML element on screen.

Introduction
Being able to retrieve data from remote servers is a fundamental requirement for most projects in web development.JSON is probably one of the most popular formats for data exchange due to its lightweight and easy to understand structure that is fairly easy to parse.Python, being a versatile language, offers a variety of ways to fetch JSON data from a URL in your web project.

Virtual reality is already widespread in entertainment and is starting to spread to fields ranging from education to health care.But while vision and hearing interfaces are extremely advanced, and touch, or haptics, is improving, one key sense has been missing from the virtual world: smell.That may be about to change.

Using functional programming in Node.js can be a valuable skill because it allows developers to write code that is more concise, maintainable, and easier to reason about.In functional programming, functions are treated as first-class citizens, meaning they can be passed around as arguments and returned as values, allowing for more flexible and reusable code.

This is a deep dive - THIS IS NOT a beginner-friendly post.If you're looking to learn Million.js,try the quickstart (opens in a new tab) instead.This post is aimed at experienced programmers that want to deep dive into React and Million.jsinternals.AIDEN BAI (opens in a new tab) MAY 1 2023A little over four years ago, Rich Harris released Virtual DOM is pure overhead (opens in a new tab) , analyzing the performance of traditional virtual DOM manipulation.[0]

It's natural for technology to get smaller, more powerful, and more affordable.A computer occupied the size of an entire room 50 years ago.Now it fits in the palm of your hand and can literally communicate with satellites.Televisions have gone from heavy, bulky appliances to paper-thin display units too.

"Having a good chef's knife is crucial," says Michael Binder, culinary director at Palmaz Vineyards in Napa.Though a good set can be handy, there are few tasks a good chef's knife can't accomplish."You can adapt to cut just about anything with a good sharp chef's knife," says Sheana Davis, owner of The Epicurean Connection in Sonoma and author of Buttermonger.

Blå Station has added two generously sized chairs and a table that's ideal for those in-between spaces to their catalogue.Up first is designer Johan Ansander's OM chair, lightweight with a slender seat and minimal construction.Molded plywood turns the contemporary chair's back legs into a continuous backrest, with other pieces of the material used for the front legs and rim.

Having a good chef's knife is crucial, says Michael Binder, culinary director at Palmaz Vineyards in Napa.Though a good set can be handy, there are few tasks a good chef's knife can't accomplish.You can adapt to cut just about anything with a good sharp chef's knife, says Sheana Davis, owner of The Epicurean Connection in Sonoma and author of Buttermonger.

Knives always conjure up images of sharp cutting tools, and tactical knives, in particular, will have people thinking of monstrous blades with rough handles made to tough it out in the wild.The last thing you'd probably expect is to meet a handsome tactical knife that can stand gloriously among your premium and sleek EDC gear or one that works so smoothly that you're left wondering if it's a luxury item instead.

The Xiaomi TV Stick 4K is the company's latest entry-level 4K media streaming device.It's the usual sort of compact, dongle-like design that has become very popular with consumers as media streaming usage skyrockets.This new model supports most of the popular new audio/video formats along with the new Google TV interface.

It's a typical weekday night, but you decide to pull out that bottle you've been saving for a special occasion.Yes, today is as good as any.You lift the handle of the corkscrew and hear the resounding pop of the cork.Then you slowly pour your wine into a long-necked decanter, watching it swirl down the sides while listening to the gentle "glug, glug," as the bottle empties.

Wine Enthusiast It's a typical weekday night, but you decide to pull out that bottle you've been saving for a special occasion.Yes, today is as good as any.You lift the handle of the corkscrew and hear the resounding pop of the cork.Then you slowly pour your wine into a long-necked decanter, watching it swirl down the sides while listening to the gentle glug, glug, as the bottle empties.

Dezeen Showroom: French design brand Petite Friture has added a silvery metallic finish to its Week-End collection of outdoor furniture, which features tables and chairs with slatted aluminium surfaces.The Week-End collection was originally designed in 2017 by Paris-based studio Brichet Ziegler with a grained epoxy paint finish available in a variety of colours.

Losing possessions, trivial or significant, is a universal experience - one that often incites stress and despair.Enter Apple's AirTags: simple, powerful devices designed to track and locate missing items.However, despite their efficacy, the AirTags' rather plain aesthetic leaves something to be desired.

The next generation of computer screens could incorporate holographic displays, allowing us to interact with images and videos that appear to be presented in three dimensions.Instead of interacting with real-time videos of colleagues during videoconferences, they could be represented as holograms.Medical professionals could be presented with three-dimensional (3D) views of organs and scans to help diagnose conditions and plan surgeries.

When two black holes slam together, they don't make a sound.And yet, this is what we hear if we listen closely.[CLIP: Black hole chirp] Let's listen again.[CLIP: Black hole chirp] That chirp is what we heard from two black holes that slammed together about a billion light-years from Earth.The tone rises as they spiral closer together, and abruptly stops when they merge.

Basma Hameed is living her childhood dream to create her own cosmetics.She has developed a 40-shade foundation called Basma now selling online and soon to be available in stores at beauty giant Sephora."It's still hard to believe, but it's incredible," Hameed, 36, said about her success."You don't [expect] somebody who's a burn survivor to launch a beauty brand."

PITAKA are a leading brand when it comes to accessories for your favourite electronics, and I got the chance to test out one of their most popular iPad products - the PITAKA MagEZ Magnetic iPad Charging Stand and Case Pro.This nifty bit of kit acts as both a stand and charging point for your iPad and MagEZ-compatible accessories.

The GameSir T4 Kaleid comes from peripheral maker GameSir, which is no stranger to great gaming accessories, especially when it comes to offering fantastic alternatives to the traditional console controller.In this review, we're looking at their latest launch - the T4 Kaleid.This controller is a beautiful product, but will it be replacing the current pads I use day to day?

Those of us who need a laptop for resource-hungry tasks such as 3D rendering or video editing are used to making the trade-off between power and portability.Until very recently, we've been restricted to the larger form factors as the more powerful GPUs haven't been available in smaller laptops.But now we're starting to see a new generation of lightweight 14-inch laptops with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptop GPUs that can deliver the high performance needed to accomplish these kinds of tasks.

The Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo camera is an instant camera that combines retro design with modern digital functionality to produce vibrant instant prints.This hybrid is compact, lightweight and highly portable, making it perfect for travel or on-the-go use.The Mini Evo is easy to use, even for first-time camera users.

The Alienware m17 R5 is, for those au fait with Dell's naming conventions for its gaming laptops, the fifth iteration of its 'mid-spec' gaming portable.Sporting a sharp 17-inch screen, Alienware's well-established and stylish aesthetics get a subtle upgrade on the outside and a slightly less subtle one on the inside.

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1. VanJS is a free and open source JavaScript community dedicated to helping developers grow and learn.
2. VanJS offers a variety of resources including a weekly newsletter, online meetups, coding challenges, and hackathons.
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AWS Lambda is an excellent service for developing serverless applications.It enables developers to create functions that can be triggered by a variety of events without the need for server management.You can use middleware to handle common tasks like input validation, error handling, and response formatting to streamline and modularize your Lambda functions.

As someone who goes for low-alcohol carbonated drinks almost exclusively (yes, I'm a lightweight), I love a good Japanese whisky highball.My drink of the summer this year is the version they're pouring at Umami Mart, which you might know for its design-conscious Japanese bar gadget and kitchenware shop in North Oakland.

EDCs are the living embodiment of "big things come in small packages".EDCs are the kind of smart little tools that are always great to have in your backpack or tool kit.You never know when one of them could come to your rescue, helping you out of the trickiest situation, or to even pop open a bottle of beer, when you need to unwind after work.

A material that alerts people to "an invisible threat" by changing colour in response to UV radiation has been displayed in an installation by Crafting Plastics Studio and DumoLab Research.The design and research studios set out to explore environmentally active biomaterials with the installation, titled Sensbiom 2 and displayed at Milan design week.

The week of Discover Samsung sales is wrapping up today, but it's not too late to pick up a great deal.Today's deals feature the Galaxy Z Fold4, which now starts at an effective price of $1,000.This is with up to $900 of trade-in credit plus $100 Samsung Credit, which can be spent on accessories.Note that this price is for the 12/512GB model thanks to a free storage upgrade up from the 256GB base configuration.

Being stuck at home during the pandemic really did teach us a few lessons.One, being, that you can actually do a lot at home, especially in your backyard!It definitely made us realize we shouldn't underestimate our backyards, they can be locations of major fun, recreation, and relaxation...depending on how we do them up.

PubMatic has agreed a new partnership with adaptive streaming specialist, SeenThis to deliver high-quality digital advertising while minimising carbon emissions.This initiative will give brands and agencies around the world a simple, efficient way to shift their buying behaviour in favour of more sustainable media, without compromising on advertising performance.

British and Dutch plans to help Ukraine obtain F-16 fighter jets have put the United States and some of its closest European allies at odds yet again over what weapons the West should send Kyiv to defend against Russia's invasion.Even if the Biden administration overcomes its long-held reluctance to give Ukraine the American-made planes, the F-16 would not be used in combat for months at least, officials and military analysts say.

So, who fired two drones at the Kremlin in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, and what does the act say about the course of the war in Ukraine?The whole business is a mystery, and may remain so forever, except to those who did the deed.The two questions are, of course, related; the intended impact on the war depends on who launched the weapons.

Kubernetes is a powerful platform that helps you manage your containerized applications by automating many of the tasks involved in running them.It acts like a personal assistant, taking care of all the nitty-gritty details so you can focus on the bigger picture of your applications.For example, Kubernetes can automatically scale your application up or down based on demand, handle load balancing between different parts of your application, and ensure that your application is always available, even if some of the servers in your cluster go down.

Amazon has two generations of Alexa-friendly Echo Buds under its belt, and today it's introducing a third.The new model has been completely redesigned from the first two with an AirPods-like stickbud aesthetic many companies have adopted over the years.There are other changes too, but perhaps the most interesting one is what Amazon has done with the price.

I can't stop looking at these earbuds.You might've already seen leaks about the new Beats Studio Buds Plus, available beginning today for $169.99,but there's something even more attention-grabbing about their translucent design in person.Maybe it's because I came of age in the late '90s, when these semiopaque finishes were a common sight on gamepads, household phones, and other gizmos.

The perfect hybrid machine that's just as good a tablet as it is a laptop still doesn't exist.But throughout last year, companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google continued to improve their operating systems for machines that do double duty.Windows 11 has features that make it friendlier for multi-screen devices, while Android has been better optimized for larger displays.

Python's rich ecosystem of data science tools is a big draw for users.The only downside of such a broad and deep collection is that sometimes the best tools can get overlooked.Here's a rundown of some of the best newer or lesser-known data science projects available for Python.Some, like Polars, are getting more attention than before but still deserve wider notice; others, like ConnectorX, are hidden gems.

Around 85% of plastic packaging worldwide ends up in landfills.In the US, which is by far the world's biggest plastics polluter, only around 5% of over 50 million tons of plastic waste produced by households in 2021 was recycled, accordingto Greenpeace.With plastic production set to triple globally by 2060, plastics made primarily from oil or gas are a growing source of the carbon pollution fuelling climate change.

When I watched a concert a week ago, I was surprised at how many kids were holding actual digital cameras instead of just their smartphones.And then when I went on Tiktok, I found out that this former gadget staple was actually making a "comeback" for Gen Z-ers that didn't want to be too attached to their phones but still wanted to capture photos and videos that had better quality.

DJI is an undisputed champion in the drone market.GoPro remains at the top in the action camera market.Both companies have tried entering each other's industry but with little success.This dream mashup by Cédric Rouvroy combines DJI's unmanned-flying skills with GoPro's videography chops.The result?

Ukrainain design brand Joyf is on a mission to make your life happier - who can say no to that?In collaboration with designer Rostyslav Sorokovyi, the brand has released its first outdoor furniture collection: Tube.Entirely sustainable, the series consists of six pieces: a chair, a coffee table, a dining table, a bench, a bar table, and a bar stool.

Before apps were invented, doing celebrity profiles was how I dated.I didn't drink or take drugs, so I wasn't going to meet anyone at bars or clubs.And who's going to make a pass at someone who spends her time alone listening to Leonard Cohen?For me, the only one who tried was Leonard Cohen himself, backstage at the Royal Albert Hall.

Air conditioners are great except for their most obvious limitation.They're static.Whether it's in your house, in your office, in a mall, or in your car, the AC stays right where it is.It doesn't move with you from space to space, or room to room, and when you step outside, your body has to deal with a sudden blast of heat from the outdoors.

The bodybuilding pioneer looks to add to his legacy in Romania.The 2023 Masters Olympia is scheduled to be held on the weekend of Aug. 26-27, 2023 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.There will be plenty of history made at this competition.It's the first time that the Men's Open Masters Olympia will be held since Dexter Jackson won the title in 2012.

After a tiring week at work, with the weekend joyfully looming ahead of me, I often find myself fantasizing about a short sweet getaway!Just a few days away from my hectic life, and this hectic world, in a bubble of my own, where all my worries are nowhere to be seen.The pandemic may restrict my actual traveling plans, but it definitely cannot restrict my daydreams about vacations!

We've all seen those action movies where the heroes, or sometimes even the villains, need to see in the dark.Perhaps it's to add some tension or because of past technologies, but these gadgets often show nighttime videos that are blurry or green, which naturally ups the ante in difficulty.Real life is less dramatic, of course, but the need for clear vision at night is no less critical than on the big screen.

Away launched in 2015 and has been at the top of the luggage game ever since.Still today, the brand remains one of the most popular options thanks to their modern, minimalist design, supreme functionality, and major durability.They're lightweight and dependable, and this comes from someone (me) who owns two and has carried them around the world.

If you're looking for an expandable home on wheels to tow behind your EV, you have a few existing options already.However, if you're not instantly in the market for a towable, and can wait for a couple of years, a ground-breaking travel trailer is in the works.It is solar-powered, furnished with modular furniture, and customizable to user requirements, but that's not it!

A sex blanket equipped to soak up period blood and a wearable device created to alleviate cramps feature in this roundup of products designed to improve the experience of menstruating.The projects in this roundup are united in their aim to minimise the stress, shame and financial difficulties that are often associated with having a period.

Designed to be used on the kitchen countertop as well as on a mountaintop, the BlendQuik is the world's first mason jar-style portable blender that can do everything from making smoothies at home and protein shakes at the gym to churning up a quick guacamole at a picnic or even a frappe in your car.

East Bay artist conjures charm
Ominously distorted minimal synth chords bang underneath a whooshing chant cranked on my best speakers while I think about how best to describe this music.The artist's name is Spellling because that is what she does, cast spells."I would say it's progressive, pop," said Chrystia Cabral, known to the music world as Spellling, with an extra L. "I listen to a lot of pop music.

Dezeen Showroom: a modular system of seating components characterised by its snaking cylindrical backrest is among nine new products featured on Dezeen Showroom.Pipeline modular seating by Alexander Lotersztain for DerlotAustralian design company Derlot has created a series of versatile seating modules based on space-age aesthetics in collaboration with Alexander Lotersztain.

White Sox starter Dylan Cease found a groove against the Seattle Mariners, retiring 10 of the final 11 batters he faced during Sunday's outing at Peoria Stadium.Cease allowed one run on three hits with six strikeouts and one walk in four-plus innings.He retired 10 consecutive batters, including five straight strikeouts, before giving up a single to Kean Wong to lead off the fifth.

With a split-surface design that feels almost alien insect-like, the PX2 Wireless Mouse flips the idea of the ergonomic blob-shaped mouse on its head and opts for individual surfaces that come together, almost like an exoskeleton.This results in a wireless mouse design that's unapologetically different but still manages to be ergonomic and lightweight.

It's lightweight, silent, and about 90% cheaper than the Peloton Row.My most vivid memory of a rowing machine comes from the first-ever Netflix original series, House Of Cards.The rowing machine, kept in President-to-be Frank Underwood's basement, was a symbol of perseverance, of man versus machine.