A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Back in June I was invited to speak at JSConf.be. This year’s edition focused on DevSecOps and Security. My talk “Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run” — which I have brought forward before at Full Stack Ghent and PHP-WVL — was a perfect match for it. Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform by …
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One of the features of the Web Share API is that it allows you to share files along with your share intent: if (navigator.canShare && navigator.canShare({ files: filesArray })) { navigator.share({ files: filesArray, title: 'Vacation Pictures', text: 'Photos from September 27 to October 14.', }) .then(() => console.log('Share was successful.')) .catch((error) => console.log('Sharing failed', error)); …
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role="doc-subtitle"
Over at CSS-Tricks, Chris takes a look at how to mark up a “Double Heading”, a common pattern where you have a big heading with a little one preceding/succeeding it (as pictured above). After going over a few options, the answer comes from a tweet by Steve Faulkner: use role="doc-subtitle" for the secondary heading. As …
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Being a fan of Christoper Nolan’s work, I liked this look back at Inception — an amazing movie with a wonderful soundtrack — which recently turned 10.
<input type="number"> respond to arrow keys with modifier keys
By default <input type="number"> elements will increment/decrement by its step attribute value when pressing the up/down arrows. Kilian Valkhof provides us with some JavaScript to have these elements also respond to up/down keypresses while holding modifier keys. When someone uses the arrow keys in the input field, we want the following to happen: If they …
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Chris Ferdinandi has been writing an excellent post series on Service Workers. After first explaining what Service Workers are and how to create one, he — as per usual on Go Make Things — also provides us with practical scenarios such as making pages available offline, caching web fonts to improve rendering, etc. Go Make …
If you’ve ever wondered how Git internally manages commits and merges, Zvonimir Spajic (@konrad_126) has got you covered: Creating branches in git is blazingly fast and having a bunch of them is pretty cheap. This means we get to merge them quite often. But how is a branch represented internally and what does it mean …
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With the new Facebook coming soon to all users, the developers saw an opportunity to build a11y in from the start: To make the new site more accessible, we were able to introduce guardrails right from the beginning, integrate focus management into the core infrastructure, support features that weren’t available when we built the original …
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A talk by Pierrick Calvez. I especially like the part on the hyphen vs. en dash vs. em dash — the latter being a symbol which I use quite a lot — and the mentioning of keming 🙂 A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography →