A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
If you’re using Dropbox and would like to store Git repos in your Dropbox folder, this tool is useful: This CLI shell script aims to take advantage of glob patterns and existing .gitignore files in order to exclude specific folders and files from dropbox sync. Never sync node_modules or vendor to Dropbox again! dropboxignore →
Remy Sharp: There are two JavaScripts. One for the server – where you can go wild. One for the client – that should be thoughtful and careful. Yes, a thousand times YES! Two JavaScripts →
The great Manuel Matuzović: It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite …
Let’s take a look at how we can progressively enhance the color experience on the web, accessing color spaces such as display-p3.
To create presentations I like to use Keynote, mainly thanks to its animation feature. I admit that it took me some time to get accustomed to it – and that not all is perfect – but I think I’ve become efficient at using it over time. The transitions and animations – such as seen in …
Continue reading “Convert a Keynote presentation to a set of hi-res images”
At the most recent CSS Day, Chris Lilley gave a talk titled “Escaping the sRGB Prison”. Imagine that I told you that you are only allowed to use two-thirds of the colors that your screen can display. All the brightest and most vivid shades are not allowed. Unacceptable, right?! Welcome to Web design for the …
Recently built a demo that demonstrated a specific animation. Only problem: if you missed it, you had no way of restarting it. Instead of forcing the visitor to reload the page, this little JavaScript-snippet – attached to a button click – did the trick: const restartAnimations = ($el) => { $el.getAnimations().forEach((anim) => { anim.cancel(); anim.play(); …
Continue reading “JavaScript: Restart all CSS Animations of an Element”
Thanks to Variable Units, authors can define Custom Properties and use them as units in their CSS
Handy CLI tool by Heydon which allows you to convert from Design Tokens Format to CSS Custom Properties, Sass Variables, ES Modules, JSON, etc. Design Tokens CLI → 🤔 New to the Design Tokens format? Design Tokens and how a W3C specification will help going forward will walk you through it.
