A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
If you’ve ever wondered how Git internally manages commits and merges, Zvonimir Spajic (@konrad_126) has got you covered: Creating branches in git is blazingly fast and having a bunch of them is pretty cheap. This means we get to merge them quite often. But how is a branch represented internally and what does it mean …
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With the new Facebook coming soon to all users, the developers saw an opportunity to build a11y in from the start: To make the new site more accessible, we were able to introduce guardrails right from the beginning, integrate focus management into the core infrastructure, support features that weren’t available when we built the original …
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A talk by Pierrick Calvez. I especially like the part on the hyphen vs. en dash vs. em dash — the latter being a symbol which I use quite a lot — and the mentioning of keming 🙂 A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography →
git log using PHP
obs-websocket
If you’re using OBS Studio for your streaming needs, obs-websocket might come in handy: ot’s a WebSocket Server that allows you to remotely control OBS. Once installed and activated you can then use something like obs-tablet-remote as a GUI for it. obs-websocket WebSockets API for OBS Studio →OBS Tablet Remote → Via Patrick 💡 If …
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Nils Binder noticed that Gradient Angles in Sketch, Figma, and CSS don’t behave exactly the same. To dig deeper into the subject he built this wonderful Pen that visualizes how gradient angles in CSS behave: The pen visualizes linear-gradient(var(–angle), #f09, #3023AE, #0ff). Very nice!
Alex Trost at Frontend Horse: One style I’ve been loving is the 3D work that Ricardo Oliva Alonso creates on CodePen. It’s a style that looks like it was drawn in Adobe Illustrator or modeled with Three.js. Ricardo will often find a piece on Dribbble and recreate it on CodePen, styling it entirely with HTML …
If you’re looking for a quick rundown of the aforementioned AlpineJS, here’s a talk by AlpineJS’s author Caleb Porzio which he presented at JSNation:
leading-trim – The Future of Digital Typesetting
Ethan Wang, who works at Microsoft: In a standard text box, there’s almost always extra space above and below the actual text. Because of this, when you use a text box to measure and implement spacing, it ends up larger than you intended. The bigger the line height, the bigger the problem. You can see …
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David Shayer, who was an iPod Software Engineer – the 2nd one they hired for the iPod project when it started in 2001 – back in the day: It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod …