A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
If your code/project always uses Pull Requests to add/fix stuff in your code (e.g. no direct commits on master), then Changelog Generator will come in handy. It’s a CLI tool (written in PHP) that automatically fetches all closed PRs and Issues between the targetted and the previously tagged release. Installation is possible using Composer: $ …
Next to praising the AV1 Codec and providing conversion examples (using ffmpeg), Andrey Sitnik also gives a good overview on containers and codecs – concepts every web developer who embed video should know imho – in his post on the subject: File extensions for video (.mp4, .wmv, .webm or .mov) barely represent containers. When you …
TossingBot, a robotic arm that picks up items and tosses them to boxes outside its reach range. It is double the speed and dexterity of other state-of-the-art picking systems achieving 500+ mean picks per hour, and is better at throwing than most of the engineers on the team. The key to TossingBot is a self-improving …
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Ryan Dahl – inventor of Node.js – has been working on Deno, a new take on Node as if it were designed today. From async-await to ArrayBuffers, the JavaScript language has changed significantly in the decade since Node.js was designed. Deno takes advantage of these developments and incorporate lessons learned in the development of Node …
Editor.js is a so called “block style editor” like the one Medium (and recently WordPress) sport. The Editor.js workspace consists of separate Blocks: paragraphs, headings, images, lists, quotes, etc. Each of them is an independent contenteditable element (or more complex structure) provided by Plugin and united by Editor’s Core. The output is not HTML but …
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Illustrated.dev holds a collection of awesome illustrations on Web Development by Maggie Appleton: Most of these explainers are about JavaScript fundamentals. Because those never go out of style. But I’ve also made a few on newer tools like React, Babel, and D3. I make these because the front-end world is overflowing with confounding things to …
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Loose and funny recap of significant events that happened during the past seven seasons of Game of Thrones. Right in time before the start of Season 8, this Sunday 🙂
.full-bleedAbout two years ago I wrote a post on How to Break Elements out of Their Containers in CSS so that they are “full bleed”. Whilst the method which uses CSS Grid still is accurate and works really well (I use it “in production”), the “old” method I used (in case of situations where one …
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Jonathan Davis – Web Technologies Evangelist for Apple – has done a writeup on the new features that have landed in Safari 12.1, which is included with macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2. This release delivers web platform features that improve website integration with the operating system, new real-time communication capabilities, more compatible encrypted media …
[loading="lazy"]Addy Osmani, on an upcoming web feature which is about to land in Chrome 75: The loading attribute allows a browser to defer loading offscreen images and iframes until users scroll near them. loading supports three values: lazy: is a good candidate for lazy loading. eager: is not a good candidate for lazy loading. Load …
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