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YouTube API iOS Shortcuts Shower Song Tutorial

Yesterday’s non-mobile YouTube API Command Line Shower Song Names Tutorial based work begs the question, for us … At least, on “mobile” iOS (which we have access to) can any “command line” feel of playlists ending up at our Shower … Continue reading →

HTML Form Events Primer Tutorial

The study of events, in regard to web applications, is an important part of the study of front-end client functionality, so let’s again (after yesterday’s HTML Table Events for Colspan and Rowspan Tutorial as shown below) talk about the client … Continue reading →

HTML/Javascript Canvas Double Click Tutorial

The Canvas HTML element tag can be used as the container to draw graphics on the fly usually via the use of Javascript functions for rendering and event management. In today’s tutorial we add to the functionality of the previous … Continue reading →

Integrating Global Weather Ajax with Geographicals Tutorial

Today’s tutorial is all about software integration and complements yesterday’s Integrating Global Weather into Geographicals Tutorial as shown below. Software integration takes many forms, and Ajax functionality is that little bit different, perhaps, in that with the tablet and mobile … Continue reading →

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1. Sean Zhang on Cocos2d Mac Game Hello World Cocos Creator TutorialNovember 14, 2026
  The Hello World starting point makes it easier to separate project setup from asset problems. A useful follow-up would be importing a small sprite sheet and checking frame dimensions, ordering and padding before adding animation logic. Previewing the individual frames first can help identify whether a problem comes from the artwork or from the engine configuration.
2. Hello Team on Javascript Course Primer TutorialNovember 13, 2026
  The distinction between course-driven and immersion-driven learning is useful. A small extension to the australia.htm exercise would be a set of named map markers and a text filter: first update the visible markers on an input event, then add a collected/uncollected toggle, and finally persist only that toggle state in localStorage. That gives beginners a concrete reason to learn arrays, DOM updates and browser storage without needing PHP or MySQL first. It is also worth testing empty searches, a page reload and disabled storage separately; those are different failure cases. Disclosure: we maintain the GTA 6 interactive map. I am suggesting it as an example of a map-and-progress interface, not claiming that we used the tutorial code. Would you introduce persistence after the first working interaction, or keep the initial exercise entirely stateless?
3. tooloteca on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialNovember 12, 2026
  What I find most interesting here is how honestly the post names the hard part: getting focus to work with [element].click() and [element].blur() is the kind of detail that looks trivial until you actually try to drive a page this way. The single-row table that deliberately overflows to the right also makes sense as a design choice, since a radio playlist needs to be scrolled through rather than squeezed into one screen. And the payoff — clicking one song link and having the songs play in sequence and loop back through the list — is a neat reward for all that plumbing with the audio-only YouTube player.
4. Aleister on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialOctober 22, 2026
  I like the single-row radio-play approach for keeping the controls compact while still making each selection clear. When I’m checking a calculation alongside a tutorial, I use StepStat to see the intermediate steps; how do you handle the layout when the playlist gets much longer?
5. anagrampuzzle on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialOctober 18, 2026
  The idea of mapping a video's key scenes, mood, pacing, and audio before production resonates with me — it's a lot like working out an anagrampuzzle, where the same pieces only make sense once you rearrange them into the right order. Do you usually sketch the mind map before or after the script is locked?

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