A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
prettier or php-cs-fixer with GitHub Actions
Stefan Zweifel shares his GitHub Actions Workflows to run prettier and php-cs-fixer on his repos: Over the past few weeks I’ve added a handful of workflows to my projects. One workflow is really like, is to run prettier and php-cs-fixer to automatically format my code and commit the fixed files back to the repository. Here’s …
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The new Native File System API enables developers to build powerful web apps that interact with files on the user’s local device, like IDEs, photo and video editors, text editors, and more. After a user grants a web app access, this API allows web apps to read or save changes directly to files and folders …
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Still in draft, yet already thoroughly supported, is the CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 Specification, a CSS module which gets me excited. CSS Logical Properties and Values is a module of CSS introducing logical properties and values that provide the ability to control layout through logical, rather than physical, direction and dimension mappings. …
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Speaking of lag in the previous post, Emojineer Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) recently created a typing experiment in which you can control the amount of delay when typing. Things are starting to itch at around 40ms here … Typing delay experiment: How annoying is too annoying? →
In cooperation with LG U+, Doosan have demonstrated “TeleOperation” – a technology to remotely control construction equipment. They demonstrated it by operating the DX380LC-5 (a 40-tonne excavator) over a distance of 8500km (!). The operator was located in Munich (Germany), the excavator itself in Incheon, South Korea. Here’s a video of TeleOperation in action, at …
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Nice research by Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Jimei Yang and Feng Liu: In this paper, we introduce a framework that synthesizes the 3D Ken Burns effect from a single image, supporting both a fully automatic mode and an interactive mode with the user controlling the camera. Our framework first leverages a depth prediction pipeline, which …
Over the years Instagram (as a product) grew a lot. With more features to show, their web experience began to degrade. In a series of (upcoming) posts they’re covering what they have done to improve performance. In this first part they cover script preloading and image prefetching, reducing the loading time of the “feed page” …
Button placement on forms is often ignored or prioritised based on what looks good. But button placement can make or break a form, and a form can make or break a user’s experience. That’s why it’s essential to get it right. Here I’ll explain where to put buttons across a range of different forms based …
Being a big fan of his work, I enjoyed this episode of The Director’s Chair featuring Wes Anderson: In this episode of The Director’s Chair, we take Wes Anderson interviews so that he can explain his unique style and dive into the Wes Anderson aesthetic. The contents are summarised into 5 topics: Pull from your …
Great research by Zell Liew: I noticed browsers were inconsistent in how they handle a click on <button>. Some browsers choose to focus on the button. Some browsers don’t. In this article, I want to show you my test and findings. Then, I want to talk about a way to overcome these inconsistencies. Great to …
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