A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Today’s phones are hard to put down. Push notifications buzz in your pocket, red bubbles demand attention, and endless distractions sit at your fingertips. It can feel impossible to pull away from. But that’s kind of the point. I never understood why people would want to get notifications for every cough and sneeze. Turn ‘m …
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Using the hanging-punctuation CSS property it’s possible to control whether a punctuation mark should hang at the start or end of a line of text, so that they do not disrupt the ‘flow’ of a body of text or ‘break’ the margin of alignment. Here’s a pen: See the Pen mWJJNx by Joel Drapper (@joeldrapper) …
Remember Lottie? It’s a library that can play back animations in React (Native) using a JSON file. One would define the animation in After Effects, and then export it to a JSON file for Lottie to use. But what if you don’t have After Effects? And is AE really the tool to do this job? …
If you’ve totally missed out on PWAs, then this summarising video by Pete LePage is a good start. If you know what PWAs are then you might want to skip forward to the 8:30 mark, where details on the Twitter PWA (which might come to macOS soon?) are shared. In the first part of the …
In “Let’s talk about usernames” James Bennett – author of django-registration – digs deeper into an at first seemingly simple thing such as usernames and how to keep ‘m safe and unique. And no, you can’t make it by just doing a a simple comparison. You’ll have to think of more than that if you …
laravel-cspSpeaking of Content Security Policy, the folks at Spatie – who else? – have created a Laravel Package to easily take care or your CSP needs in a Laravel-based app. Even without knowing the inner workings of the packge, the custom Policy below is easy to understand: namespace App\Services\Csp; use Spatie\Csp\Directive; use Spatie\Csp\Policies\Policy as BasePolicy; …
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Chrome is really tightening up the security game here. In Chrome 66 it will untrust Symantec-issued SSL/TLS certificates, after Symantec has repeatedly screwed up by wrongly issuing certificates for domains, including google.com itself. Thanks to a decision in September by Google to stop trusting Symantec-issued SSL/TLS certs, from mid-April Chrome browser users visiting websites using …
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Unlike Electron this one results in true Native Components being outputted. Proton Native does the same to desktop that React Native did to mobile. Build cross-platform apps for the desktop, all while never leaving the React eco-system. Popular React packages such as Redux still work. import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { render, …
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