A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Just announced at React Native EU is an alpha release of React Navigation 5.0, a navigator for use with React Native. An exploration of a component-first API for React Navigation for building more dynamic navigation solutions. Should play well with static type system Navigation state should be contained in root component (helpful for stuff such …
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Tinderin, by Dries Depoorter: Side by Side profile pictures of LinkedIn & Tinder of the same person. Series of 10 photo frames. Quite sure those are the “clean ones” … 🔥 Be sure to check out Dries his other work too. Installations such as Quickfix, a vending machine that sells followers and likes, are really …
Back in the day I set up a few VPSes with WHM/cPanel on to host some sites. As back then the certificates for the cPanel services (FTPD, SMTP, WHM, …) were self-signed and Let’s Encrypt was still in its early days, I also ordered a wildcard certificate for *.3rds.be along with that and configured WHM …
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dark-mode-screenshot is a Puppeteer script to take screenshots of both the light and dark mode versions of a website. $ npx dark-mode-screenshot –url https://googlechromelabs.github.io/dark-mode-toggle/demo/index.html –output screenshot –fullPage Works in somewhat odd way first requiring the OS to have dark mode enabled (?), and then launch Chromium: Once with prefers-color-scheme disabled (using –disable-blink-features=MediaQueryPrefersColorScheme) Once with Dark …
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At work we’ve recently started to use Terraform to manage the cloud infrastructure of our clients. During my initial research on how to set up a Cloud SQL instance using Terraform, I stumbled upon the “Terraform Google Modules” organization (unaffiliated to Google). They provide several Terraform modules in order to easily create: A Kubernetes Engine …
Now this comes in handy: Docs to Markdown (GD2md-html) converts Google Docs to simple, readable Markdown or HTML. This add-on allows you to create documents using the excellent editing and collaborative features of Google Docs, but publish as Markdown or HTML that you can store as text files using a version-control system. Docs to Markdown …
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One of my React Native projects recently decided to no longer launch any of the iPhone Simulator devices anymore. When running react-native run-ios I was greeted with an error stating that the simulator could not be found. bramus in ~/repos/projects/react-native-maps-directions-example on master* $ react-native run-ios –simulator="iPhone X" Found Xcode project RNMapsExample.xcodeproj Could not find iPhone …
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Video of a lightning talk by Stefan Judis, as presented at NDC Oslo 2019, in which he highlights a few of the lesser known JavaScript things he learned over time His tips can also be found on his blog, in a dedicated “Today I Learned” section.
Earlier today Chris Coyier tweeted that he was in the process of rewriting one of his pens without jQuery: Been trying to re-write this without jQuery: https://t.co/xvsZMKsfvL I’m like 70% there but haven’t quite gotten it. jQuery is doing so much helpful DOM traversal here it’s a pain in the ass without it. — Chris …
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Many text editors nowadays sport a minimap on the right hand side of the screen. Pagemap is like that, but for webpages: To use it, position a canvas element fixed on your screen, and tell pagemap which elements to include in the map: <canvas id="map"></canvas> #map { position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; width: 200px; …
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