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- May 19 2016
Reconbots Invade Maker Faire
Looking for some creative inspiration for your next hardware programming project? Come meet Rick Waldron, Francis Gulotta, and five of their newest robot friends this weekend at the Bay Area Maker Faire, May 20-22! Reconbots are WiFi car devices you drive from your phone using their live video stream and touchscreen controls. They are powered […]
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Reconbots Invade Maker Faire - May 12 2016
A Baseline for Fast, Accessible, Responsive Games on the Open Web
The first thing I built on a computer wasn’t all that different from the last thing I built on one. That first computer was a Macintosh Classic II. It was one of those beige boxes with the handle on the top, a black and white screen that was—what—maybe twice the size of an iPhone 6 […]
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- May 09 2016
Welcome, Peter Beshai!
Like a low-percentage free-throw shooter, we’re only gonna make one point from this post: Peter Beshai has joined the coop as our newest Open Web Data Visualization Engineer! Peter is a data visualization developer and a usability enthusiast. After a lifetime of frustration with hard-to-use devices and hard-to-decipher charts, he studied human-computer interaction and information […]
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- Apr 28 2016
Welcome, Susan Robertson!
They say if you’re snoozin’, you’re losin’, but if you’re Susan, you’re choosin’ … Bocoup! We’re thrilled to welcome Susan Robertson to our engineering team. As a front-end developer, Susan has built her career implementing designs, creating better user experiences, and building canonical online style-guides for a broad range of clientele. Previously of Fictive Kin […]
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- Apr 25 2016
The Cranky Ghost in the Machine
Sometimes I swear source code can say as much about its author as any poetry. This might sound like an exaggeration (or like I don’t read too much poetry), but I’m often surprised by how style and values find their way into the seemingly-lifeless language of software. For me, nowhere has this been more apparent […]
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- Apr 20 2016
Using Research Tools in your design practice: Negotiating to actually use them
Bocoup has been offering a handful of user research workshops lately focusing on developing a process for working on design projects. Following the workshops, I have been pinged by tons of designers and engineers who are doing user research on a project requesting some support in a real-world application of the tools. Primarily, the main […]
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- Apr 14 2016
Bocoup Opens New Office and Event Space by South Station; Puts 7-year Moratorium on Moving
Friends of the Coop have grown accustomed to double-checking our address before stopping by—which makes sense, given that we’ve moved a few times in the past two years: Well, friends, I’m pleased to report we’ve finally put down roots—very long, sturdy roots—at 201 South Street. We’re thrilled to be fully up and running in our […]
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- Mar 29 2016
Equality and Relational Operators: Comparing the strange relationship between null and 0
Recently I saw a tweet about the relationship between values in JavaScript saying that greater or equals means nothing. The tweet reported the following results: null >= 0 // true null > 0 // false null == 0 // false My experience with the JavaScript language makes me believe that everything has a meaning, even […]
Continue ReadingEquality and Relational Operators: Comparing the strange relationship between null and 0 - Mar 22 2016
Looking at JavaScript with “new” eyes: Digging into the specs to learn more about the new operator
To me, the JavaScript language is as beautiful and unexpectedly wondrous as a mini donkey. If I could propose a new cover for the book Beautiful JavaScript, I would choose this one: The reason I find JavaScript beautiful is that there’s something new to learn everyday. For example, recently I learned some surprising facts about […]
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Seams in JavaScript
Sometimes I’m not satisfied with the way things are. I wish they could be a little bit different, just for a moment. I deal with this desire in my personal life by sighing and gazing through a rain-dotted window. When writing code, I take a more productive approach: I use seams. During application development, there […]
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