Now this is a fun distraction: watch dashcam footage of a car driving around a city with the local radio on. Turn on Street Noise for that extra effect. Drive & Listen →
Drive & Listen — Drive around cities while listening to their local radios
Category Archives: Elsewhere
Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak?
For as long as we’ve had language, some people have tried to control it. And some of the most frequent targets of this communication regulation are the ums, ers, and likes that pepper our conversations. These linguistic fillers occur roughly 2 to 3 times per minute in natural speech. So are ums and uhs just …
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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
Interesting read on how GTA Online player t0st got elbow deep into disassembling GTA Online to fix its poor loading times. After taking a minute to load the common resources used for both story and online modes (which is near on par with high-end PCs) GTA decides to max out a single core on my …
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Firefox State Partitioning
State Partitioning is an interesting privacy feature shipping with Firefox 86. With State Partitioning, shared state such as cookies, localStorage, etc. will be partitioned (isolated) by the top-level website you’re visiting. In other words, every first party and its embedded third-party contexts will be put into a self-contained bucket. Applies to every embedded third-party resource …
Inspecting Safari on iPhone using the Safari (on desktop) DevTools
Harry Roberts explains how to inspect pages from MobileSafari (on your iDevice) using the Safari (on your Mac) DevTools. It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but if I recall correctly you can — once set up — also debug pages in MobileSafari without needing a physical USB connection. It’ll run over Bluetooth. Measuring …
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Tailwind CSS: From Zero to Production
Not that I’m a fan of Tailwind, but this (free) video course by the Tailwind folks themselves is a very good starting point to those wanting to get started with it. Today we’re excited to release Tailwind CSS: From Zero to Production, a new screencast series that teaches you everything you need to know to …
Getting the Mouse Position using CSS
For his post How to Map Mouse Position in CSS on CSS-Tricks, Amit Sheen created this lovely demo: The demo does use CSS Custom Properties for the X/Y position of the mouse, but they’re not injected using JavaScript. Instead, Amit uses the same technique as used in CSS-Only Direction Aware Hover: capture the hover on …
Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
While looking at a package.json from a public project from PayPal, Alex Birsan noticed that it held some references to private NPM packages used internally by PayPal. Birsan noticed some of the manifest file packages were not present on the public npm repository but were instead PayPal’s privately created npm packages, used and stored internally …
Writing Good Alt Text
Jake and Surma tackle the age-old problem: what should you include in an image’s alt text?
My first impressions of building a project with Snowpack
Jonathan Yeong tried out Snowpack and is equally excited as I am about it. Related: 🙋♂️ If you’re looking for a detailed step-by-step post on Snowpack, check out Learn Snowpack: A High-Performance Frontend Build Tool to get you started.