A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The Evolution Of Webdesign is a collection and imitation of Webdesign Trends from 1991 to 2015. In this project I researched and tried to represent a fixed content with typical attributes for each year. Utterly brilliant! Evolution of Webdesign → Via Jeremy
Stunning track by Alfa Mist, from their latest album Structuralism: This track should’ve lasted at least twice as long … great vibe. Via Jurriaan (who went to Roeselare Jazz last week, posted some photos/videos praising Alfa Mist their performance on Instagram, thus piquing my interest …)
useDimensions – a React Hook to measure DOM nodesimport React from 'react' import useDimensions from 'react-use-dimensions' const MeasuredNode = () => { const [ref, { x, y, width, height }] = useDimensions(); return ( <p ref={ref}> I am a paragraph at ({x}px, {y}px) position with a width of {width}px and height of {height}px </p> ); }; Handy. Uses window.resize+window.scroll internally, yet I’m quite …
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In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other. The maps are compact, …
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TIL, from the Engagor Clarabridge Development Blog: When creating an \Exception in PHP (including your own extended classes), you can pass in a third argument named $previous. It defines the previous \Exception used for exception chaining, leaving you with better errors for debugging: try { $this->doSomeImportantStuffWith($foo); } catch (VeryDescriptiveException $e) { // do some stuff …
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If you want to improve the accessibility of your React apps but you don’t know how or where to start, this talk is just what you need. Manuel shares 12 tips that will help you build web sites and applications that can be used by anyone. Each tip fits on one slide and you’ll be …
It’s possible to unlock and start a Tesla using only using a driver’s App username and password (without the need of a key nor the pincode to unlock the onboard dashboard!) Let this be a reminder to never trust free Wifi; especially not Wifi that requires you to “log in” (*). Also: Services like these …
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:nth-child(), and orderTobias Ahlin: On the surface it seems fairly easy to create a masonry layout with flexbox; all you need to do is set flex-flow to column wrap and voilà, you have a masonry layout. Sort of. The problem with this approach is that it produces a grid with a seemingly shuffled and obscure order. Flexbox …
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If it’s been a while that you’ve touched PHP (like say, from before version 7.0) or have no idea what the language can do for you, Brent has a nice writeup on the state of PHP in 2019: Let’s focus on the things that have changed and ways to write clean and maintainable PHP code. …
Yesterday SpaceX deployed the first batch of satellites for “Starlink”, its ambitious internet-from-space program. In total 60 of the 12000 planned satellites got deployed. Holland based Dr. Marco Langbroek captured the train of satellites as they passed over Leiden, the Netherlands, about 22.5 hours after launch. Over the coming days the “train” of objects will …
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