A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The “6-pack” platform is the core of our new fabric, and it uses “Wedge” [a custom built network switch] as its basic building block. It is a full mesh non-blocking two-stage switch that includes 12 independent switching elements. Each independent element can switch 1.28Tbps. We have two configurations: One configuration exposes 16x40GE ports to the …
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Since earlier this week Flipboard now is a website too. As they wanted to mimic their mobile apps, it would sport lots of animations. During their first tests, they found the DOM being too slow (although that’s not entirely true, see this video and its description for example). And then, an epiphany: Most modern mobile …
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An experiment to show how designing for The Fold can be treacherous. Each line is from a random sampling of past-visitors’ viewport heights. Take care when making assumptions about people’s screen sizes on the web. Do note that it only shows “a randomised subset of the full data”. I am the fold → Related: Life …
img { width: 150px; height: 100px; border: 1px solid #000; } .fill { object-fit: fill; } .contain { object-fit: contain; } .cover { object-fit: cover; } .none { object-fit: none; } .scale-down { object-fit: scale-down; } The object-fit CSS property specifies how the contents of a replaced element should be fitted to the box established …
At this moment a vote on the PHP RFC “Scalar Type Hints” is going on. It would allow stuff like this: <?php class ElePHPant { public $name, $age, $cuteness, $evil; public function __construct(string $name, int $age, float $cuteness, bool $evil) { $this->name = $name; $this->age = $age; $this->cuteness = $cuteness; $this->evil = $evil; } } …