A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Now this comes in handy: Docs to Markdown (GD2md-html) converts Google Docs to simple, readable Markdown or HTML. This add-on allows you to create documents using the excellent editing and collaborative features of Google Docs, but publish as Markdown or HTML that you can store as text files using a version-control system. Docs to Markdown …
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Video of a lightning talk by Stefan Judis, as presented at NDC Oslo 2019, in which he highlights a few of the lesser known JavaScript things he learned over time His tips can also be found on his blog, in a dedicated “Today I Learned” section.
Many text editors nowadays sport a minimap on the right hand side of the screen. Pagemap is like that, but for webpages: To use it, position a canvas element fixed on your screen, and tell pagemap which elements to include in the map: <canvas id="map"></canvas> #map { position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; width: 200px; …
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New teaser/trailer for “Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker”, as showcased at Disney’s D23 Expo: Looking forward to this one! 🙂
node_modules/vendor folders with npkill
When working in web, you can be left with several lost node_modules (JS) and vendor (PHP) folders spread across your filesystem, unnecessarily taking up space. To find these, I use the following command: # List all node_modules (from current directory down) and their size $ find . -name ‘node_modules’ -type d -prune -print | xargs …
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One of the features that shipped with Chrome 76 is “Paint Holding”. It’s a technique that removes the “flash of white” – e.g. the white page you briefly see while the browser is loading the next page – when navigation between two pages on the same origin, thus delivering a smoother experience to the user. …
Trailer for The Mandalorian, a Star Wars live-action series, due November 12 on Disney+: After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. “The Mandalorian” is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone …
UX studio, a Budapest based 30-person design company on how they plan their team retreats, how they keep the balance between fun activities and serious work during those retreats, etc: Every six months, our whole UX company travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about …
Cool interactive site showing your how to perform a Server Side Request Forgery hack, based on a true incident: The following interactive tutorial is a reconstruction of Capital One’s data breach incident that exposed the records of almost 106 million customers. Paige Thompson is accused of breaking into a Capital One server and gaining access …
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Harry Roberts has done an extensive write-up on Time To First Byte (TTFB), an often overlooked metric when it comes to measuring the performance of websites. While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. To see what happens during your TTFB, …
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