New in Chrome 89

Pete LePage walks us through the additions in Chrome 89. 🤩 I’m honored to have my WebHID Daft Punk Sound Board be featured in the “WebHID, WebNFC, and Web Serial section there. Let’s hope other browser vendors follow soon with top level await, as Chromium is the only browser to support it at the time …

Fastify, Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

It’s been a while since I’ve set up a server with Node, but turns out Fastify is preferred over Express nowadays. Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture. It is inspired by Hapi and Express and as far as we …

Drop-in CSS transitions with transition.css

transition.css is a handy stylesheet by Adam Argyle, full of transitions you can apply on your page. Simply import the stylesheet and set a transition-style attribute on the elements you wish to animate for the effect to kick in: <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/transition-style" /> <div transition-style="in:wipe:up">👍</div> Not explicitly mentioned on the demo page (but is in …

A visual guide to SSH tunnels

Great work by Linmiao Xu: SSH tunnels are encrypted TCP connections between SSH clients and servers that allows traffic entering one side of the tunnel to transparently exit through the other. This page explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows. Also comes with the commands … handy! A …

Exploring @property and its Animating Powers

Over at CSS-Tricks Jhey Tompkins has written a solid piece on the amazing @property and the possibilities it opens: We can give the browser the information is needs to transition and animate those properties! Covered in the post, amongst many other interesting demos, are Jhey’s own Pure CSS Stopwatch and my own animated gradient border …

Control the behavior of JavaScript imports with Import Maps

Shipping in Chrome 89 are Import Maps, which allows control over what URLs get fetched when importing modules. Let’s take a look at this very welcome addition. When importing ES Modules (on the web), you need to refer to them using their full filenames or URLs: import moment from “/js/moment/moment.js”; import { partition } from …

Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak?

For as long as we’ve had language, some people have tried to control it. And some of the most frequent targets of this communication regulation are the ums, ers, and likes that pepper our conversations. These linguistic fillers occur roughly 2 to 3 times per minute in natural speech. So are ums and uhs just …