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10 Lodash Features You Can Replace with ES6 ES2015
Lodash is the most depended on npm package right now, but if you’re using ES6 ES2015, you might not actually need it. In this article, we’re going to look at using native collection methods with arrow functions and other new ES6 features to help us cut corners around many popular use cases. 10 Lodash Features …
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Automatic Bullseye MOVING Dartboard
Former NASA engineer Mark Roper: I fulfilled a 3 year long dream to create a dartboard where you get a bullseye every time thanks to some engineering. Basically, you throw a dart and then a Vicon motion capture system tracks the dart in the air. We use those x,y,z positions in matlab to predict where …
An Animated Intro to RxJS
In Reactive Animations with CSS Variables the subject of RxJS was touched. If you’re not familiar with RxJS, CSS-Tricks has nice introductory article on the subject: You might have heard of RxJS, or ReactiveX, or reactive programming, or even just functional programming before. These are terms that are becoming more and more prominent when talking …
Given
Given is the simple yet powerfully contemplative story of a unique family legacy come full circle. Told through the visceral experience of a 6 yr. old, Given follows legendary surfers Aamion and Daize Goodwin from their island home of Kauai through 15 different countries in the quest for surf and to fulfill a calling handed …
Validating JSON Web Tokens in Varnish
Why you’d want to hold off buying a Nintendo Switch just yet
Mocking Individual CSS Transform Functions using CSS Variables
In CSS we use the transform property to manage an element’s translation, rotation, and scale. As it’s one single combined property for all three possible transformations, setting transform: rotation(90deg); on an element will (re)set the values for translation and scale by falling back to their default values. This will change when the “CSS Transform Module …
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The success to the animations in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”
Deep dive CSS: font metrics, line-height and vertical-align
Line-height and vertical-align are simple CSS properties. So simple that most of us are convinced to fully understand how they work and how to use them. But it’s not. They really are complex, maybe the hardest ones, as they have a major role in the creation of one of the less-known feature of CSS: inline …
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