Tag: spot

A sweet spot between signals and observables

The migration wave to signals is real, state management libraries have started to add support to support both observables and signals. This is my shot together with Chau to combine observables and signals into one. Little history Angular has had observables since the beginning and the devs ...

PHOTOGRAPH: This Spot Reserved for Mr. Bill Thacker

T. Chick McClure’s photograph, “This Spot Reserved for Mr. Bill Thacker,” captures a deeply personal and introspective moment in the life of Carolyn Thacker, who stood by her husband’s side as he the combated ravages of Parkinson’s disease and dementia for more than a d...

Pokemon is in a weird spot

The following is the script for the above video Pokemon is the most successful game franchise in the world. Over 238 million copies of the main series games have been sold. The anime has over 1000 episodes. There’s tons of spinoff games and merchandise. But what if I told you the games migh...

A Sweet Spot in Chicago

A couple of months ago I met up with a friend at a conference in Chicago. For me, it’s an hour or so train ride and I hadn’t seen him in a few years. He was busy working for most of the time so I spent some time wandering the exhibits. It was too nice to stay inside though so I ventur...

Which NYC Spot Should You Give “a Latke” Love This Hanukkah?

There are a lot of Jewish foods, especially associated with the holidays, that I love. Very few things in this world can compare to a good kugel or a bowl of my grandmother’s matzo ball soup. But latkes might just take the cake for being my favorite Jewish food. I mean, they are like a french ...

Astronomers spot the first “bounce” in our Universe

If you were to look at the Universe on the absolute largest of cosmic scales, you’d find that galaxies clustered together in an enormous web of structure. Individual galaxies form along the threads of the web, with rich groups and clusters of galaxies forming at the nexuses where the threads m...