A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Chris Coyier wants to create a Card Component in React. But then he suddenly finds himself down the rabbit hole: how flexible does he make it? What is configurable and what is not? Where to draw the line? It sounds very familiar, as I’m always pondering over things like this when writing libraries/reusable things in …
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Apart from the quite well known prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion features, the Media Query Level 5 spec comes with a few more new ones. The Media Query Level 5 spec is being drafted as we speak, and it includes some really nice ones. Some of them are still being figured out, but several of them are …
I like this review of the Mac Pro by The Verge. Very nuanced, something you don’t come by often these days. In short: It’s a hell of a machine which costs a ton. Adobe’s software is not taking advantage of all of the machine’s power. The XDR Display might or might not work for you. …
Late January Puppeteer 2.1.0 got released, with native support for Firefox: The launcher now has an option to run Puppeteer with different browsers, starting with Firefox. Puppeteer can now talk to a real, unpatched Firefox binary. This is a first step towards eventually deprecating the separate puppeteer-firefox package in favor of supporting Firefox directly in …
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Intl.DisplayNames
An ECMAScript Internationalization API Feature that currently is in Stage-3 and that has already landed in V8 version 8.1 is Intl.DisplayNames. It’s a way to get localized display names for languages, scripts, regions and others. The idea is that you as a developer should not build your own list of localized strings for languages, regions, …
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A common misconception about React is that you need to set up an entire toolchain to get started with it. While that might have been true in the past, that certainly isn’t the case today. From the React Docs: The majority of websites aren’t, and don’t need to be, single-page apps. With a few lines …
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Some notes: Great to see that Vue grew out of a personal need, not a plan to make money. Those projects always win. It requires one to invest a lot of personal time and effort into their projects … remember that, before you start complaining about something in a repository (or in a blog’s comment …
Symfony 5 recently got released. Fabien Potencier – Symfony’s creator – has also published a book along with its release. This book – written by Symfony’s creator – lays out a pragmatic approach to developing web applications with Symfony 5: from scratch to production. Whether you are discovering Symfony for the first time or refreshing …
Nice tip by Kamran Ahmed: Find the commit that broke the tests $ git rebase -i –exec "yarn test" d294ae9 This will run "yarn test" on all the commits between d294ae9 and HEAD and stop on the commit where the tests fail — Kamran Ahmed (@kamranahmedse) February 2, 2020 If you want to go back …
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esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier
Interesting work by Evan Wallace, a JS bundler/minifier written in Go. Since it compiles down to native code, it’s fast: My main benchmark approximates a large codebase by duplicating the three.js library 10 times and building a single bundle from scratch, without any caches. For this benchmark, esbuild is 10-100x faster than the other JavaScript …
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