A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Ryan Dahl – inventor of Node.js – has been working on Deno, a new take on Node as if it were designed today. From async-await to ArrayBuffers, the JavaScript language has changed significantly in the decade since Node.js was designed. Deno takes advantage of these developments and incorporate lessons learned in the development of Node …
Editor.js is a so called “block style editor” like the one Medium (and recently WordPress) sport. The Editor.js workspace consists of separate Blocks: paragraphs, headings, images, lists, quotes, etc. Each of them is an independent contenteditable element (or more complex structure) provided by Plugin and united by Editor’s Core. The output is not HTML but …
Continue reading “Editor.js – Next generation block styled editor”
Illustrated.dev holds a collection of awesome illustrations on Web Development by Maggie Appleton: Most of these explainers are about JavaScript fundamentals. Because those never go out of style. But I’ve also made a few on newer tools like React, Babel, and D3. I make these because the front-end world is overflowing with confounding things to …
Continue reading “Illustrated.dev explains web development through illustration”
Loose and funny recap of significant events that happened during the past seven seasons of Game of Thrones. Right in time before the start of Season 8, this Sunday 🙂
.full-bleedAbout two years ago I wrote a post on How to Break Elements out of Their Containers in CSS so that they are “full bleed”. Whilst the method which uses CSS Grid still is accurate and works really well (I use it “in production”), the “old” method I used (in case of situations where one …
Continue reading “Breaking Elements out of Their Containers in CSS with .full-bleed“
Jonathan Davis – Web Technologies Evangelist for Apple – has done a writeup on the new features that have landed in Safari 12.1, which is included with macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2. This release delivers web platform features that improve website integration with the operating system, new real-time communication capabilities, more compatible encrypted media …
[loading="lazy"]Addy Osmani, on an upcoming web feature which is about to land in Chrome 75: The loading attribute allows a browser to defer loading offscreen images and iframes until users scroll near them. loading supports three values: lazy: is a good candidate for lazy loading. eager: is not a good candidate for lazy loading. Load …
Continue reading “Native image lazy-loading for the web with [loading="lazy"]“
As with everything: It Depends (when you’re looking): When Earth and Venus are at their closest approach, their separation is roughly 0.28 AU — no other planet gets nearer to Earth. But just as often, the two planets are at their most distant, when Venus is on the side of the Sun opposite Earth, 1.72 …
Continue reading “What is the Closest Planet To Earth? Well, it ain’t Venus …”
Nice hack by Cassie: she uses counter-reset as a temporary storage space so that the value of a CSS Variable it can be used inside generated content (e.g. with the content property). I was trying to display the numeric value stored in a CSS variable inside generated content…Turns out you can't do that.But you can …