A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Free book by Chris Fernandi: The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, I believe many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this book, I want to share some ideas on how to fix it, and explore a new set of best practices to replace what we do today. …
🌍 This week I’ve been goofing around with Google Cloud Platform and Terraform to manage it. I’ve learned quite a few things, that might be of help to others, so here goes … IAM for SA vs. IAM for Projects There’s a difference between IAM policy for service account (google_service_account_iam) and IAM policy for projects …
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text-decoration-* CSS Properties Coming to Firefox
Glad to see this announcement by Mozillian Daniel Holbert: As of today (Sept 12 2019), I’ve turned on support for the CSS properties text-decoration-skip-ink, text-decoration-thickness, and text-underline-offset, on all platforms. As posted before, text-decoration-skip-ink gives you nicer underlines. The other two properties allow one to tweak the position and color of the underline. CSS Tricks …
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Leveraging GitHub Workflows’ Scheduled Events (read: cronjobs that run on GitHub) the folks at De Voorhoede let their static site automatically be rebuilt overnight. They do this because they have some external content, which doesn’t get committed into the repo, included on their site. Static websites don’t update by themselves. In case of code changes …
The folks at Calibre have release a GitHub Action named “Image Actions” and I must say, it looks amazing insane: Image actions will automatically compress jpeg and png images in GitHub Pull Requests. Compression is fast, efficient and lossless Uses mozjpeg + libvips, the best image compression available Runs in GitHub Actions, so it’s visible …
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Can I email is like Can I use but specifically for email: which HTML and CSS features are supported by which mail client? They also provide a scoreboard, ranking mail clients based on their support among the 70 HTML and CSS features listed on Can I email. Can I email… Support tables for HTML and …
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Good article by Kent C. Dodds, covering the JavaScript paradigms which are used quite a lot when writing React apps. Learning JavaScript features is really advisable for you to be effective building applications with React. So here are a few JavaScript features I’d recommend you spend some time learning so you can be as effective …
At last years’ edition of Fronteers Conference I gave a lightning talk on ESNext, covering the TC39 Process and highlighting three of my favorite proposals (some of which have hit Stage-3 by now!). Earlier this week they released the video of my (short) talk The lightning talk itself was a short version of a full …
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Good post on how and where to store your secrets when working in a Serverless / Cloud Environment — something I was wondering about myself a little while ago Serverless applications and cloud functions often need to communicate with an upstream API or service. Perhaps they require a username and password to connect to a …
Really nice CSS Grid demo by Olivia NG. It’s a magazine containing twelve pages on The Avengers: CSS Grid: Magazine Layouts → 💁♂️ Other nice CSS Grid Demos by Olivia include a Floor Plan and an Excel Spreadsheet