A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Every time you visit “This Word Does Not Exist” it will spit out a word that does not exist, along with its description and an example sentence containing the word. This Word Does Not Exist uses an artificial intelligence model named GPT-2 to invent new English words. Some fun results in there 🙂 This Word …
Brent has been following the PHP releases and featured up close. In this post he highlights 8 of the features that will make it into PHP 8 Attributes (aka Annotations) Union types The static return type The just-in-time Compiler throw in Expressions Non-capturing catches Trailing commas in parameter lists New str_* functions As a bonus …
The folks over at Callstack have published a series on React Native Optimization: In this and the following articles, we will show you how to optimize the performance and stability of your apps. Thanks to the practices described in the guide, you will improve the user experience and speed up the time-to-market of your apps. …
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In Playing With (Fake) Container Queries Chris used the <resize-asaurus> web component to make the elements resizable. Curious to see how that worked I dug into its source. As I was expecting a truckload of JavaScript to make it work, I was very surprised to see that it basically revolved around using just one single …
The past few days I’ve been attending some virtual conferences. At JS VidCon and JavaScript Remote Conf I also joined as a speaker, to bring forward my ever-evolving talk “ESNext: Proposals to look forward to” With the yearly ECMAScript releases (ES2015..ES2020) of a lot of things have changed in JavaScript-land, and there’s even more to …
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Unreal Engine 5 empowers artists to achieve unprecedented levels of detail and interactivity, and brings these capabilities within practical reach of teams of all sizes through highly productive tools and content libraries. Whether you’re a gamer or not, I think we can all agree that this is very impressive stuff! 🤯
useWorker() is a js library (with typescript support) that allows you to use the Web Worker Web API, through React Hooks. This library allows you to run the expensive function without blocking the user interface, using a simple syntax that makes use of Promise import React from "react"; import { useWorker, WORKER_STATUS } from "@koale/useworker"; …
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This is crazy: Pose Animator takes a 2D vector illustration and animates its containing curves in real-time based on the recognition result from PoseNet and FaceMesh. It borrows the idea of skeleton-based animation from computer graphics and applies it to vector characters. Built on top of PoseNet to track the body’s pose, and the aforementioned …
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The author of PHPUnit was a bit surprised when he received a mail stating that PHPUnit was a security risk and hackers could remotely execute PHP code through a file named eval-stdin.php that ships used to ship with PHPUnit. // eval-stdin.php eval ('?>'. \file_get_contents('php://input')); Even though the eval-stdin.php file itself indeed was vulnerable, it never …
To crop uploaded images, Twitter doesn’t simply cut them off starting from the center. After first having used Face Detection, they – in 2018 already – switched to AI to cleverly crop uploaded images. Previously, we used face detection to focus the view on the most prominent face we could find. While this is not …
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