glyphhanger is a great tool to work with web fonts, developed by the folks at Filament Group. It serves two goals: It shows what unicode-ranges are used on a web page: # local and remote URLs $ glyphhanger ./test.html $ glyphhanger https://example.com # output characters instead of Unicode code points $ glyphhanger ./test.html –string # …
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Subsetting web fonts with
Fancy Words and Big Concepts
A New View of the Moon
Rough.js – Create SVGs with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance
Rough.js is a light weight (~8k), Canvas based library that lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style. The library defines primitives to draw lines, curves, arcs, polygons, circles, and ellipses. It also supports drawing SVG paths. To get started first create a rough canvas: const rc = rough.canvas(document.getElementById(‘canvas’)); On that rough canvas you can …
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Geometric cover replication with CSS Grid, clip-path, and writing-mode
Artsy Engineering Blog: React Native, 2 years later
Two years ago the folks at Artsy started working with React Native: We’ve come quite far from where we started, and I was asked if I could give a talk to summerize what we’ve learned in the last 2 years as a set of native developers using React Native. Orta Therox from their team gave …
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Young Fathers – In My View
GeoPuzzle
React Native Under the Hood: MessageQueue & JS Thread
Yesterday I spent all day on the React Native Bridge digging deep into what gets sent over. This talk by Rotem Mizrachi-Meidan nicely details why one would want to do that. Next to the basic MessageQueue.spy(), I also used the aforementioned rn-snoopy to get some aggregated stats. A write-up of this video is also available.
CSS Houdini Experiments
At the very end of the Say Hello to Houdini and the CSS Paint API article there’s only a small mention of this site. However it’s that great that it’s worth a link/post on its own. ⚠️ Be sure to use Chrome Canary – with “Experimental Web Platform features” enabled via chrome://flags – when visiting …