A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Surma digging into the oldskool dithering technique: I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostaliga and none of Lena. Turns out there’s quite a lot to it 😅 Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about …
Steren (who happens to be PM for the wonderful Cloud Run): My stack requires no maintenance, has perfect Lighthouse scores, will never have any security vulnerability, is based on open standards, is portable, has an instant dev loop, has no build step and… will outlive any other stack. It’s not LAMP, WordPress, Rails, MEAN, Jamstack… …
Nolan Lawson, author of emoji-picker-element, a web component you can use to provide an emoji-picker: What wasn’t obvious to me, though, was how to allow users to style it. What if they wanted a different background color? What if they wanted the emoji to be bigger? What if they wanted a different font for the …
The GitHub homepage features a very nice rotating 3D globe, augmented with realtime data shooting around. Here’s how they built it: At the most fundamental level, the globe runs in a WebGL context powered by three.js. We feed it data of recent pull requests that have been created and merged around the world through a …
Thomas Steiner: WebHID allows websites to access devices that use the human interface devices (HID) protocol via JavaScript. Here is a little Christmas present 🎄 to the community to celebrate the API approval: releasing Joy-Con WebHID, a WebHID “driver” for Nintendo Joy-Con controllers so you can use them in the browser. If you have Joy-Cons, …
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Lea Verou: A pattern that has come up a few times in my code is the following: an object has a property which defaults to an expression based on its other properties unless it’s explicitly set, in which case it functions like a normal property. Essentially, the expression functions as a default value. Think of …
Steve Fulghum takes a look at how we can use Houdini’s Paint API to paint a complex shadow. See the Pen Simulating Drop Shadows with the CSS Paint API by Steve Fulghum (@steve_fulghum) on CodePen. If you’re interested into making your first Paint Worklet with Houdini, you can easily follow along with the article/tutorial. Simulating …
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Nice demo by Michelle Barker, in which she recreates snowflakes based on those folded paper cutouts we all made as a child. ⚠️ Warning: quite a heavy demo. Uses both a clip-path and mask-image to generate the cutout shapes. And oh, everything’s defined using Custom Properties. Love the attention to detail on this one too: …
See the Pen Cooltipz.css – Cool tooltips made from pure CSS by Bramus (@bramus) on CodePen. I especially like the fact that these are customisable using CSS Custom Properties. Here’s a few of them: :root { –cooltipz-bg-color: #fff; –cooltipz-text-color: #333; –cooltipz-border-radius: 5rem; } Installation per NPM: npm install cooltipz-css Cooltipz.css →
Anthony Ricaud, writing for the Web Performance Calendar, on the extra load that JavaScript can put on your site, and how you can replace some things with basic HTML and CSS: Relying on solutions provided natively by browsers enables you to benefit at low cost from the expertise of the community creating web standards. These …
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