Often forgotten, but no less important: print styles. This post provides a nice summary of some simple things you can do to give your print layout some love. A small collection of useful CSS techniques and a quick reminder that print style sheets are still a thing. I totally forgot about print style sheets →
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Google PhotoScan
Don’t just take a picture of a picture. Create enhanced digital scans, with automatic edge detection, perspective correction, and smart rotation. PhotoScan stitches multiple images together to remove glare and improve the quality of your scans. PhotoScan by Google (iOS) →PhotoScan by Google (Android) →
SolarCity and Tesla: Tau Microgrid
The future is happening: The island of Ta’u in American Samoa, located more than 4,000 miles from the West Coast of the United States, now hosts a solar power and battery storage-enabled microgrid that can supply nearly 100 percent of the island’s power needs from renewable energy. This provides a cost-saving alternative to diesel, removing …
SVG Line Animation for the Uninitiated
CSS pseudo-classes
Great and visual explanation of CSS pseudo-classes such as :only-of-type, :first-of-type, :last-of-type, :nth-of-type(number/an + b/even/odd), … Embedded above is the visual for the selector: a:nth-last-of-type(1) { border: 2px solid black; } How CSS pseudo-classes work, explained with code and lots of diagrams →
Web Components: Introducing Custom Elements
One of the new features in Safari Technology Preview 18 is Custom Elements v1 (Chrome/Opera already support for it): To define a custom element, simply invoke customElements.define with a new local name of the element and a subclass of HTMLElement. Example Code: class CustomProgressBar extends HTMLElement { constructor() { super(); const shadowRoot = this.attachShadow({mode: 'closed'}); …
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The Two Americas of 2016
Getting ready for PHP 7.1
In short: Catching multiple exception types Curl HTTP/2 server push support Support class constant visibility Void return types Generalize support of negative string offsets Allow specifying keys in list() and square bracket syntax for array destructuring Warn about invalid strings in arithmetic Deprecate and remove mcrypt() Upcoming changes in PHP 7.1 → Don’t forget about …