In my previous post, I talked about how after Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, I was giving more attention to Mastodon. Since then, I killed my twitter account, launched my own Mastodon instance, launched three new Mastodon bots (including a new one that goes live this morning), and converted Joe Travels to only post to...
Previously, we have covered how to identify where the user is, based upon navigator.geolocation and based upon their IP address (there are definitely ways to make IP-based geolocation suck less). I figured that in today’s post, we would look at how to go from an arbitrary physical location (zip code or city name) to latitude...
Last week, I wrote about creating a cloudflare worker. When I created that worker, I knew that I wanted to leverage that for the state parks app. This week, I created three new workers: one to get the user’s location, one to get the list of parks, and one to get an individual park. Let’s...
Last night, I attended a NodeSchool workshop, put on by the Milwaukee JavaScript User Group. It took place at Corvisa Services, at Schlitz Park. It was a bit of fun. We went over the “Learn You The Node.js For Much Win!” section of the NodeSchool program. I noticed early on that installing Node.js is easiest if you...