A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Talk by Jake Archibald, as brought at JSConf.Asia 2018, taking a close look into the browser’s Event Loop: This talk looks at the browser’s event loop, the thing that orchestrates the main thread of the browser, which includes JavaScript, events, and rendering. We’ll look at the difference between tasks, microtasks, requestAnimationFrame, requestIdleCallback, and where events …
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Frank Chimero was out of the loop for 3 years when it comes to developing websites. Coming back he was put off by the complexity of how things have gotten. Take layouting for example, where we went from tables to floats to flexbox to grid layout. [With Grid Layout] I’m reminded of the table layouts …
react-fns – Browser APIs turned into declarative React components and HOCsreact-fns is a collection of imperative Browser API’s turned into declarative React components and higher-order components for lots of common situations. The <Network /> component for example is a wrapper around the Network Information API. import { Network } from 'react-fns'; const Example = () => ( <Network render={({ online, offlineAt }) => ( <div> …
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tlapseThis one’s quite fun: tlapse is a tiny utility that takes periodic screenshots of your site while you develop. Combine all generated screenshots and you can get a sequence like this: The interval to take screenshots is configurable, and duplicates are omitted. tlapse –every 60s –directory ./screens — localhost:3000 tlapse – Create a timelapse of …
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https://stripe.ian.sh/ is an interesting site by Ian Carroll. See it? Take a closer look at the certificate. Yes, that’s one for “Stripe, Inc” … but, that’s not “Stripe, Inc” is it? This site uses an EV certificate for “Stripe, Inc”, that was legitimately issued by Comodo. However, when you hear “Stripe, Inc”, you are probably …
BMW attempted the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD™ for the longest vehicle drift in 8 hours. Watch how the all-new BMW M5 with M xDrive was built for the task to overcome an incredible challenge: re-fuelling mid-drift. Now I’m no car enthousiast, yet this one is quite fascinating … re-fuelling a car mid-drift is quite impressive! As …
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Jens Segers has created a handy shell script to easily start/stop Docker Compose based projects: Captain searches for docker-compose projects in your $HOME folder and allows you to start and stop those projects by passing a part of the parent directory name. Let this small recording of Captain in action convince you: Captain → Related: …
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Just a few days ago version 2 of Kap got released. It’s an open-source screen recorder built using electron. Installation possible with Homebrew-Cask, after which the app sits neatly in the Menu Bar: brew update && brew cask install kap It’s possible to record sections of your screen, specific windows, or the entire screen. After …
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Whilst the video is only a sneak peek of a Code School tutorial, you can puzzle the pieces together yourself. The key part is the rolling-spider Node package which uses Bluetooth to communicate with the drone. var RollingSpider = require(‘rolling-spider’); var temporal = require(‘temporal’); var rollingSpider = new RollingSpider({ uuid: ‘Mambo_434915’ }); rollingSpider.connect(function() { rollingSpider.setup(function() …