Christian Heilmann

Removing the camera overlay icon on images in Microsoft Edge

November 4th, 2022

If you use Microsoft Edge, you get a camera icon when you hover your mouse over any image: This is a great tool for users as it allows them to do a visual search in a sidebar for that image. During local development, the icon appears on images, too, but the results don’t show up. […]

Reminder: JSON.stringify can create Multi-line, formatted and filtered strings from JSON

October 28th, 2022

You can use `JSON.stringify()` to turn a JSON object into a string. let obj = {"a": 1, "b": 3, "c": "boo!"}; console.log(JSON.stringify(obj))let obj = {"a": 1, "b": 3, "c": "boo!"}; console.log(JSON.stringify(obj)) This results in a single line string: {"a":1,"b":3,"c":"boo"} However, you can also set two optional parameters, a filtering array or callback method and an […]

Unless you’re in the mafia, your company isn’t your family

October 6th, 2022

Dedication to your employer is a tradition in some cultures. My father was a dedicated coal miner and when the mine closed up he became a factory worker. He worked 40+ years in that factory in three shifts. He kept complaining about “those up there” in the hierarchy and yet the company was a big […]

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