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What is the Closest Planet To Earth? Well, it ain’t Venus …
As with everything: It Depends (when you’re looking): When Earth and Venus are at their closest approach, their separation is roughly 0.28 AU — no other planet gets nearer to Earth. But just as often, the two planets are at their most distant, when Venus is on the side of the Sun opposite Earth, 1.72 …
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Displaying the (Numeric) Value of CSS Custom Properties (CSS Variables) inside Generated Content
Nice hack by Cassie: she uses counter-reset as a temporary storage space so that the value of a CSS Variable it can be used inside generated content (e.g. with the content property). I was trying to display the numeric value stored in a CSS variable inside generated content…Turns out you can't do that.But you can …
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Controlling Hyphenation in CSS
Richard has done a nice writeup on hyphenation in CSS. Turns out we have some nice controls to tweaking how hyphenation on your site works: There is more to setting hyphenation than just turning on the hyphens. The CSS Text Module Level 4 has introduced the same kind of hyphenation controls provided in layout software …
pika/web – A Future Without Webpack
Interesting take on bundlers: Over the last several years, JavaScript bundling has morphed from a production-only optimization into a required build step for most web applications. Whether you love this or hate it, it’s hard to deny that bundlers have added a ton of new complexity to web development – a field of development that …
A Homepage for the JavaScript Specification
TC39 has shipped a homepage for following updates to the JavaScript specification: This is the first part of a two-part project aimed at improving our information distribution and documentation. The website provides links to our most significant documents, as well as a list of proposals that are near completion. Our goal is to help people …
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Unpoly – The unobtrusive JavaScript framework for server-side web applications
Unpoly is an unobtrusive Javascript framework for applications that render on the server. It allows your views to do things that are not normally possible in HTML, such as having links update only fragments of a page, or opening links in modal dialogs. Unpoly can give your server-side application fast and flexible frontends that feel …
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Solo: A Star Wars Story: Behind the VFX – BBC Click
The film Solo: A Star Wars Story has been Oscar nominated in the category of Best Visual Effects. Visual Effects Supervisor Julian Foddy from ILM spoke to Al Moloney about making the film. Highly interesting part on how they made the mountain from the train heist scene explode. Turns out not all is computer generated …
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JS Paint – MS Paint recreated in JavaScript, with extra features
JS Paint is a nice web-based MS Paint remake and more… The goal is to remake MS Paint (including its little-known features), improve on it, and to extend the types of images it can edit. So far, it does this pretty well. Ooh this brings back memories! My first ramblings on my dad’s computer back …
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