Happy last Friday of September!

In fact, today is my son's birthday, so it's fairly manic at Chez Sharp today - particularly with the presence of a minion fart gun!

This month conference season has begun, and although I've spent a couple of years dialing the talks down, I gave a talk earlier this month and will be giving it again for Paris Web next month. The talk was a step into the past on how I've been working (entirely for fun) to recreate the 1980's cassette loading process - which is mostly a screeching sound with psychedelic colours.

Of course, it's a little more than that, and I talk about what I learnt along the way (I expect it'll end up a blog post eventually), but if you're interested, this is the (near) final effect whereby my software is listening to the audio and translating it to an image:

Video of full loading effect

On the blog

So, not much this month (unless I manage to bang out a new post this weekend…which I doubt). I wrote about a bit of bitwise rabbit hole I fell down (in fact, for the project I mentioned earlier). If you're interested in geeking out about JavaScript numbers, and bit operations, then take a look at my dive into bitwise not and numbers.

Monthly recommend

For fun, check out the gitmoji cli tool - it will let you add a consistent set of emoji as part of your commits, and we all know you're instantly cool if you use emoji everywhere… 😀😂😍😎😵🙀💂👋🐂🐌🍼⏰🤷 (something like that 😉)

For security, if you're a user of iTerm (I am, and tend to recommend it everywhere), then there's an important security update you should install if you haven't already: update to 3.1.1 (background reading here).

Finally

I'm running a workshop on Universal React using Next.js in November as part of ffconf. If you're in the UK, and use any of these technologies, I'd love to see you come along (there's also a few Thursday tickets to the event alone available).

Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend folks!

– Remy 👋