useWorker() is a js library (with typescript support) that allows you to use the Web Worker Web API, through React Hooks. This library allows you to run the expensive function without blocking the user interface, using a simple syntax that makes use of Promise import React from "react"; import { useWorker, WORKER_STATUS } from "@koale/useworker"; […]
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Pose Animator – Animate SVG Illustrations using your Camera
This is crazy: Pose Animator takes a 2D vector illustration and animates its containing curves in real-time based on the recognition result from PoseNet and FaceMesh. It borrows the idea of skeleton-based animation from computer graphics and applies it to vector characters. Built on top of PoseNet to track the body’s pose, and the aforementioned […]
PHPUnit: A Security Risk?
The author of PHPUnit was a bit surprised when he received a mail stating that PHPUnit was a security risk and hackers could remotely execute PHP code through a file named eval-stdin.php that ships used to ship with PHPUnit. // eval-stdin.php eval ('?>'. \file_get_contents('php://input')); Even though the eval-stdin.php file itself indeed was vulnerable, it never […]
Cleverly Cropping Images on Twitter using AI
To crop uploaded images, Twitter doesn’t simply cut them off starting from the center. After first having used Face Detection, they – in 2018 already – switched to AI to cleverly crop uploaded images. Previously, we used face detection to focus the view on the most prominent face we could find. While this is not […]
How LEGO Minifigs Are Assembled
And now you’ll also know why they have a tiny black square on their necks:
Minimal Underline Animation
Nice pen by Aaron Iker: It combines CSS Custom Properties, CSS Transitions, and SVG Animations using stroke-dashoffset/stroke-dasharray. The reason that it works with text that spans multiple lines is because of the (inline) span that’s being used inside the link.
Need to Connect to a Local MySQL Server? Use Unix Domain Socket!
The folks at Percona have benchmarked TCP/IP vs. Unix Connections to a local MySQL server. When connecting to a local MySQL instance, you have two commonly used methods: use TCP/IP protocol to connect to local address – localhost or 127.0.0.1 – or use Unix Domain Socket. If you have a choice (if your application supports […]
Use Tailwind classes within any CSS-in-JS library with Twin
To use Tailwind – or any prebuilt CSS library/framework for that matter – in a React app you can simply import its generated CSS file and use the classes it exposes: import ‘../tailwind.generated.css’; // … const Alert = ({ title = '', message }) => ( <div class="bg-red-100 border border-red-400 text-red-700 px-4 py-3 rounded relative" […]
React Performance Optimization with React.memo()
I know I’ve posted a similar article before but this is a pitfall I commonly see and therefore it can’t be repeated enough. React internally already optimizes the performance quite a bit without having to explicitly optimize for performance. React.memo can help you to optimize the number of renders of your React components even further. […]
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook.com
The Facebook Engineering Team on how they’ve built the new Facebook.com – a version which I’ve been able to try for nearly two months by now. Throughout the process, we anchored our work around two technical mantras: As little as possible, as early as possible. We should deliver only the resources we need, and we […]