A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The folks over at Spatie have released a new tool called Ray that helps you with debugging. Ray is a beautiful, lightweight desktop app that helps you debug your app. After installing one of the libraries to send information to Ray, you can use the ray() function to quickly dump stuff. Any variable(s) that you …
The Progressive Web App term is now five years old, and it’s time to sit down and understand where we are at 2021 within the platform, what has changed during 2020 and what we are expecting for the upcoming months. It shouldn’t surprise you while reading that iOS is the bottleneck here … Progressive Web …
Following up on last year’s 2019 edition the results for the State of JS are in. 23,765 people answered the survey resulting in an overview of what’s hot and not for JavaScript and its ecosystem. It’s great to see that language features like Destructuring, Nullish Coalescing and Optional Chaining seem to be common nowadays. However, …
A trick you can use to make text better stand out against a background image, is to use a color overlay with a certain opacity on top of the image. This tool by Yaphi calculates the ideal opacity to use, so that the contrast meets the WCAG standards.
You can use dive to help you optimize your Docker image layers. Say you have these two layers in your Dockerfile: RUN wget http://xcal1.vodafone.co.uk/10MB.zip -P /tmp RUN rm /tmp/10MB.zip Then you’ll end up with 10MB of wasted space. dive will tell you, so that you can combine these into one optimized layer: RUN wget http://xcal1.vodafone.co.uk/10MB.zip …
Ahmad Shadeed sweats the details to recreating the little component above, as found in Facebook’s Messenger. In this article, I will show you a component that looks simple from the first glance, but there is a ton of work behind it. As you can derive from the article’s length: the devil is in the details. …
We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
Next.js can do a lot for you — which means there’s features you probably haven’t used! This video covers ten tips you might not know about Next.js.
I like that the daterange needs to be entered in one single input, and that the rendered datepicker is used as a progressive enhancement on top. Installation per NPM: npm i litepicker At its core, usage is really simple: import Litepicker from ‘litepicker’; const picker = new Litepicker({ element: document.getElementById(‘litepicker’) }); Highly configurable too! Litepicker …
Throughout the (excellent!) television show Mr. Robot the Kali Linux distribution is used. Turns out the makers were also involved in the “Alternative Reality Game” that lived outside the show. To solve the Post-Season 4 ARG, a key part was to be extracted from one of their repos: The idea was, we would do a …