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Easily share Wifi Passwords with friends on iOS 11
Ordering tabular data with only CSS thanks to CSS Variables
Neat experiment by Roman Komarov in which he orders tabular data using just HTML/CSS, thanks to the use of CSS Custom Properties (CSS Variables): Each cell of each row is given a specific value to sort on. <tr class="table-row" style=" –order-by-published: 161221; –order-by-views: 2431; "> <th class="table-cell"> <a href="http://kizu.ru/en/fun/controlling-the-specificity/">Controlling the Specificity</a> </th> <td class="table-cell">2016-12-21</td> <td …
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PWAs are coming to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem
Recently it was announced that iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4 will include Service Workers, opening up the way for PWAs on iOS (and potentially macOS too, following lead of Microsoft here). ☝️ If you don’t want to download the macOS 10.13.4 beta you can alternatively download Safari Technology Preview (> 48) for use with your …
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React Native Snoopy, a profiling tool for React Native
The React Native bridge is the hub where communication between the Javascript and the Native world happen. Optimizing and catching unexpected (bad) communications can make or break your performance. Being that central and sensitive place, it made sense to have tooling built around it. Snoopy is a profiling tool for React Native, that lets you …
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Alex Somers & Sigur Rós – End
Alex Somers, partner of Sigur Rós’ Jónsi, has created the music for the Black Mirror episode “Hang the DJ”. I really like the album Alex has created for this episode. Next to “Into Place” and “Out There” the track “End” (featuring Sigur Rós) really stands out: Feels like classic Sigur Rós / Jónsi. Listen on …
Counting With CSS Counters and CSS Grid
Thanks to Counting With CSS Counters and CSS Grid my attention was directed to this fact comes to using CSS Counters: The effectiveness of counter() wanes when we realize that an element displaying the total count can only appear after all the elements to be counted in the source code. This is because the browser …
WTFJS with Math (or why 0.1 + 0.2 results in 0.30000000000000004)
Implementing Instagram Filters and Image Editing in React Native
William Candillon recreated some parts of Instagram’s editing process (namely the filter, rotate, and crop steps) in React Native. The filters are implemented with GL-React: Gl-react offers a really efficient paradigm for integrating React and OpenGL together. The library enables you to easily build scenes using React composability. For instance, consider an image with two …
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