Category Archives: Elsewhere
The Cost Of JavaScript In 2018
Addy Osmani: Building interactive sites can involve sending JavaScript to your users. Often, too much of it. Have you been on a mobile page that looked like it had loaded only to tap on a link or tried to scroll … Continue reading
What Made Darth Vader Visually Iconic
Always great stuff, by The Nerdwriter: About two years ago I started watching Star Wars with my children. Whilst watching the first movie (Episode IV) I kind of found Darth’s role quite disturbing. He was just floating there in the … Continue reading
carbon-cli – Carbon, from the CLI
carbon-cli is a CLI tool which interacts with the aforementioned Carbon, allowing you to create beautiful images of your source code. Installation per NPM/Yarn, or run it directly using npx npm i -g carbon-cli Usage is quite simple: carbon -f … Continue reading
Swoole – PHP asynchronous programming framework
Swoole is an high-performance network framework using an event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking I/O model which makes it scalable and efficient. It is written in C language without 3rd party libraries as PHP extension. It enables PHP developers to write high-performance, scalable, … Continue reading
CSS shape-outside Experiments
I like these pens by Kristopher Van Sant using shape-outside to wrap text in a shape. Take this heart for example: CSS Shapes Experiments → 🤓 Back in 2006 (!) I created a small site/tool named “The Box Office” to … Continue reading
Vision-free MIT Cheetah
Cheetah can now run blind amongst a few other new tricks: Also notice how small this thing has become when compared to three years ago 😱
Components and Concerns
Jeremy Keith, on Separation of Concerns and how that comes into play where one’s dealing with Component based design: My point is this: Separating structure, presentation, and behaviour is a good idea. Separating an interface into components is a good … Continue reading
Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution
A lesson in webdev history by Jason Hoffman: The clearfix, for those unaware, is a CSS hack that solves a persistent bug that occurs when two floated elements are stacked next to each other. When elements are aligned this way, … Continue reading
JavaScript engine fundamentals: Shapes and Inline Caches
Mathias Bynens and Benedikt Meurer: As a JavaScript developer, having a deeper understanding of how JavaScript engines work helps you reason about the performance characteristics of your code. I especially like the part where they take a look into an … Continue reading