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Preston So

May 20, 2020

Building an offline e-learning application with speech recognition

Even in the best of times, working from home can be challenging. Nowadays, working from home with children in tow, presently necessary for countless millions around the world, can be nearly impossible. As our habits and practices evolve to embrace our new reality of social distancing and home isolation, our thoughts increasingly turn to how best to keep our children educated and engaged at the same time. Unfortunately, e-learning solutions that offer distance and virtual...

Preston So

April 22, 2020

eLearning with Kids at Home featuring HTML5 Speech-to-Text: Tag1 TeamTalk #013

With people around the world working from home and caring for their families in these challenging times, many of us are struggling with the difficulty of juggling work and having to homeschool our children. This can be even more challenging when your kids are very young and require more supervision and attention. As technologists we always think, “is there some way I can solve my problem with code and automation”

Preston So

April 19, 2020

Components everywhere: How a virtual DOM could bring Drupal to a reactive front-end future - part 2

A debate has been ongoing for several years about how Drupal's front end can compete against the primacy of JavaScript frameworks that are rapidly gaining steam in the wider web development community. In this multi-part blog series, we review the most important concepts behind this potential future for Drupal's front end, including Web Components, virtual DOMs, and what Drupal can learn from other ecosystems. In this second installment in the series, we examine how Drupal's...

Preston So

January 22, 2020

Peer-to-peer Collaborative Editing Using Yjs & WebRTC - Tag1 Team Talk #007

WebRTC, a protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer communication between two clients via the browser, is now supported by all modern browsers. Since its introduction it has mainly been used for web conferencing solutions, but WebRTC is ideal for a variety of other use cases as well. Because of its wide platform support, creating peer-to-peer applications for the web is now more straightforward than ever. But how do you manage many people working together at the same...