Jan Hančič

I’ve been really enjoying my 3D printer over the last year or so since I got it.

TL;DR: I designed a 3D printed fume extractor for soldering; you can make your own if you read this.

I’ve been a life-long fan of LEGO.

Right, it seems this is my fifth first blog post, sort of.

My name is Jan Hančič and this is my little corner of the world wide web.

We had an awesome Hackday at Caplin a couple of weeks ago.

Inspired by React’s keyMirror function I decided to roll my own, with one extra feature.

This isn’t a technical post, but a rant from a user’s point of view rather.

I haven’t posted here in a while.

Unfortunately we still need to support IE8 at our company, as that is what customers demand.

I’ve written about the problems of console.log().

Today I’ve stared in my screen in disbelief when I’ve found out that console.log(), in Chrome (haven’t tested other browsers), doesn’t work the way I thought it works.

This is one of those first world problems, for sure, but it’s also a good startup/pet project idea.

JavaScript allows you to omit semicolons at the end of certain statements as they will be inserted for you automatically.

Today marks my 30 day streak on GitHub.

I’ve been working on a small JS library lately and as things started getting bigger and bigger it was time to split the code across multiple files.

I’ve decided to disable new comments on this blog.

Unwanted globals can sneak into your JS codebase quite quickly, all you need to do is forget that pesky var.

I haven’t written in a while here, I know, I’ll try to amend this in the future.

Node.js is famous for being asynchronous.

I’m currently looking for a full time web-dev job in London.

When it comes to web pages I’m a bit of a speed freak.

We all know that client side form validation leads to a better user experience, but why are so many pages out there without it?

Reading Hacker News threads, related to Twitter Bootstrap, is lately kinda like going on a walk with a child, that just learned the word “car” and is now pointing and shouting “car, car, car!”

Last weekend I came up with an idea for a mini web page: SDSzombi.com.

I was reading this article on how Facebook is experimenting with taking payments to deliver your message to some person’s inbox and not the “other” folder.

Today the internet is filled with news about Instagram changing their Terms of Use.

The first Rails Girls event in Ljubljana was great fun and a huge success.

I’m sorry, but if you sometimes put spaces around parentheses and sometimes you don’t, I just can’t be your friend any more.

You may have noticed, in recent months, that some search results on Google have extra stuff displayed next to the regular title and small text that we are used to.

Let’s face it, Hacker News could do with a make over and some new features, but I don’t think that that’s going to happen anytime soon.

There’s a lovely new event coming up here in Ljubljana, aimed at women who’d like to learn programming.

You are looking at a new design for this page.

In the first part of this post I talked about how you can minify and combine your CSS and JavaScript files.

I’ve been using OSX for almost a year now which, naturally, makes me an expert on all things OSX and gives me the right to rant about it.

In the world of front end optimization you will want to start with how you serve CSS and JavaScript files.

If you are using Google Analytics you’ve probably noticed that it sets a bunch of cookies on your computer.

Optimizing front end performance of your web page is both a hard and really rewarding job.

As any developer working with SQL will tell you, sometimes some queries are just slow and there isn’t much you can do about it.

I’m a big fan of open source software, my job would be totally different if it wouldn’t exist.

I forgot to write about this.

There was a thread on Hacker News recently that captured my attention.

I’ve created a GitHub repository for my 10k Apart challenge entry FuglyDo5 (more about that in my previous post).

I’m working on a new extension for chrome, which will add, now missing, functionality to Facebook.

I often have problems keeping up with the huge amount of comments on Hacker News submissions, so I developed a simple Google Chrome extension that shows which comments are new.

I’ve decided to open a GitHub account so I can keep track on what’s happening with my favourite projects.

An Event Apart has put together a 10K Apart challenge in which participants must write a fully functional HTML5 application while using only 10K.

By I, I mean we, and by we, I mean me and my boss.

Working in IT, I’m painfully aware that technology I learn about today can, and most probably will, be obsolete tomorrow.

I was in the office almost all day this past Sunday.