A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
IntersectionObserverScrollama is a modern & lightweight JavaScript library for scrollytelling using IntersectionObserver in favor of scroll events. The code that accompanies the markup pictured above: // instantiate the scrollama const scroller = scrollama(); // setup the instance, pass callback functions scroller .setup({ container: ‘.scroll’, // wrapping container step: ‘.scroll__text .step’, // all steps graphic: ‘.scroll__graphic’, …
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In succession to Google Maps’s Quiet Transformation, a new – and very extensive and highly interesting – comparison by the same author. He start off by taking a look at the level of detail when it comes to buildings. But these buildings are more than just a pretty detail—they appear to be the foundation for …
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Ryan Florence – co-author of React Router – on an experimental React feature: React has a new feature coming that I think is pretty cool. It allows us to compose with React in places we couldn’t compose before. I can immediately see how it’ll affect some of our components and some of our exercises in …
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AnalyserNodeGood article on 24ways (yes, that still is a thing) on using Web Audio’s AnalyserNode. const waveform = new Uint8Array(analyser.fftSize); const frequencies = new Uint8Array(analyser.frequencyBinCount); const ctx = canvas.getContext(‘2d’); const loop = () => { requestAnimationFrame(loop); analyser.getByteTimeDomainData(waveform); analyser.getByteFrequencyData(frequencies); ctx.beginPath(); waveform.forEach((f, i) => ctx.lineTo(i, f)); ctx.lineTo(0,255); frequencies.forEach((f, i) => ctx.lineTo(i, 255-f)); ctx.stroke(); } loop(); I especially …
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Good intro by Arden de Raaij on setting up a basic Mapbox GL JS map with clickable markers that zoom upon getting clicked. Mapbox GL JS is a JavaScript library that uses WebGL to render interactive maps from vector tiles and Mapbox styles. It’s my favorite alternative to Google’s service and in this article I’ll …
svg-term-clisvg-term-cli is a tool that render asciicast (terminal recordings) to animated SVG. Pass the asciicast id into svg-term in order to convert it: svg-term –cast=113643 –out examples/parrot.svg –frame This asciicast for example: Using the command above, it will render to this SVG: svg-term-cli – Share terminal sessions as razor-sharp animated SVG everywhere →
<img>: Gif without the GIFIn the latest Safari Tech Preview it’s now possible to use MP4 files in <img> tags. Intended use case is short, muted, looping video. Colin Bendell digs deeper into this. By enabling true video formats (like MP4) to be included in <img> tags, Safari Technology Preview has fixed performance and UX problems. With it, our …
Recording of Sam Richard talking at ColdFront17 about the aforementioned Houdini: This talk will focus on the working being done by the CSS Houdini Task Force to provide us with the ability to extend the browser’s render engine with JavaScript, above and beyond simply running JS on the main thread or a web worker.
TVs usually have limited graphics acceleration, single core CPUs and high memory usage for a common TV App. These restrictions make super responsive 60fps experiences especially tricky. React-TV is an ecosystem for React Applications on TVs. Includes a Renderer and a CLI tool for building applications. Focused on be a better tool for building and …