Category Archives: Elsewhere

Playing With Particles Using the Web Animations API

Louis Hoebregts writing for CSS-Tricks When it comes to motion and animations, there is probably nothing I love more than particles. This is why every time I explore new technologies I always end up creating demos with as many particles as I can. In this post, we’ll make even more particle magic using the Web […]

IMAP API – Self hosted application to access IMAP and SMTP accounts over REST

IMAP API is a self hosted application for accessing IMAP accounts over REST API. IMAP API daemon connects to user’s IMAP account, translates API requests to IMAP and also sends webhooks for changes like new or deleted emails. IMAP API → Via cron.weekly

Fun with browsers: how to get an image into the current page

Christian Heilmann created a demo page where a user can add an image to the page through various ways. I gave myself the task to build an interface to make it as easy as possible for a user to add an image into the document. I wanted to support: Image upload Drag and Drop Copy […]

Indicating Scroll Position on a Page With CSS

Scroll-based features tend to involve some bespoke concoction of CSS and JavaScript. But what if we could accomplish something that only uses CSS? Take this ingenious horizontal scrollbar with CSS, for instance. I want to do something similar, but to indicate scrolled sections rather than capture continuous scrolling. In other words, rather than increasing the […]

RSS Feeds for GitHub Project Releases and User Activity

As an extra to RSS feed for youtube channels and GitHub projects, Pawel notes that it’s also possible to get a feed for the releases published in GitHub Projects. GitHub gives us RSS feeds for project releases and tags. Thats my preferred way of finding out about my followed projects fixed bugs and new features. […]

React Native Bottom Sheet (Slide Up Panel)

A common pattern in Mobile Apps is to have a Bottom Sheet / Slide Up Panel. React Native Slack Bottom Sheet is a wrapper around Slack’s native PanModal component for iOS. import SlackBottomSheet from 'react-native-slack-bottom-sheet'; <SlackBottomSheet topOffset={100} unmountAnimation={false} initialAnimation={false} presentGlobally={false} backgroundOpacity={0} allowsDragToDismiss={false} allowsTapToDismiss={false} isHapticFeedbackEnabled={false} blocksBackgroundTouches={false} interactsWithOuterScrollView > <View style={StyleSheet.absoluteFillObject}> <ScrollView> <Lorem /> </ScrollView> </View> </SlackBottomSheet> […]

Prism – Turn any OpenAPI file into an API server with mocking, transformations, validations, and more.

Prism is an open-source HTTP mock server that can mimic your API’s behavior as if you already built it. Mock HTTP servers are generated from your OpenAPI v2/v3 documents. Installation per NPM/Yarn # NPM npm install -g @stoplight/prism-cli # Yarn yarn global add @stoplight/prism-cli Once installed, serve your OpenAPI spec as follows: prism mock petstore.yml […]

Building The New Facebook With React and Relay

With the new Facebook design that got anounced just a few days ago, this video by Ashley Watkins is worth a look: Ashley discusses some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com. Topics covered include Facebook’s approach to CSS-in-JS, data-driven dependencies, phased code downloading, and more.