Pretty crazy: a timelapse + lip-sync video all while growing a beard in between: Timelapse animation music video, with my beard growing through Covid lockdown. Using my face as a stop-motion puppet (a technique called pixilation), I took 2,117 individual photos, every night, over 101 days, and synchronized the actions to the song “Better Days” …
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Debugging CSS
Apart from writing a ton of articles for his website this year, Ahmad has also written a book on Debugging CSS: An ebook with lots of tips and techniques on how to debug CSS the right way with easy and studied methods. It’s a very practical book that should get you help solve any potential …
Deep Dive into Page Lifecycle API
As the name suggests, the Page Lifecycle API exposes the web page lifecycle hooks to JavaScript. However, it isn’t an entirely new concept. Page Visibility API existed for some time, revealing some of the page visibility events to JavaScript. However, if you happen to choose between these two, it’s worth mentioning some of the limitations …
How to useRef to Fix React Performance Issues
Sidney Alcantara who works on Firetable, a product which features a data grid and an adjacent side drawer. When clicking a cell in the table, the side drawer opens with info about the current cell. Initially they lifted up the state, but that caused performance issues: The problem was whenever the user selected a cell …
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Keep calm and Git bisect
Ever saw your code break and don’t know when exactly the bug was introduced? Zvonimir Spajic walks us through git bisect to find the commit that broke things. I’ve used it myself quite a few times by now and it truly is really helpful in those situations. What I didn’t know however, is that it’s …
Sticky CSS Grid Items
Melanie Richards: If you’ve ever tried to put a sticky item in a grid layout and watched the item scroll away with the rest of the content, you might have come to the conclusion that position: sticky doesn’t work with CSS Grid. Fear not! It is possible to get these two layout concepts working together. …
Cyberpunk 2077 Button Glitch Effect in CSS
Wonderful demo by Jhey Tompkins, showcasing some recreated glitch effect buttons based upon Cyberpunk 2077. Recreate the Cyberpunk 2077 Button Glitch Effect in CSS → If you can’t quite follow there — as it’s quite a big demo — here’s a more simplified demo from 2015 featuring a simple glitch text effect: See the Pen …
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Unfolded Studio — Geospatial Data Reinvented
A geospatial analytics platform for data unification, enrichment, and visualization. It’s built on top of the aforementioned deck.gl and Kepler.gl Unfolded Studio →Unfolded Studio Example: All Public Transport stops in Germany → Sidenote: By the looks of it, the open-source Kepler.gl is doing the heavy lifting there.
Mirror Displays — A Mac app and command-line tool for fiddling with display mirroring
MirrorDisplays a simple application that toggles between mirrored and extended desktop modes. It’s the easiest way to turn on, or turn off display mirroring. Also comes with a (separately installable) CLI tool which makes this pretty interesting The command line tool is good for giving shell-scripts the power to control display mirroring and opens up …
10 ways to deploy a React app for free
If you’re looking for an intro on how to deploy your React app to Vercel, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Heroku, etc. this page has got you covered. Comes with easy to follow instructions. 10 ways to deploy a React app for free → Related: Here’s my post on how to deploy your first site onto …