“Designing Intrinsic Layouts” by Jen Simmons

Twenty-five years after the web began, we finally have a real toolkit for creating layouts. Combining CSS Grid, Flexbox, Multicolumn, Flow layout and Writing Modes gives us the technical ability to build layouts today without the horrible hacks and compromises of the past. In this hour-long talk captured live at An Event Apart DC 2019, …

Setting Up Your Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming

Matt Staufer has done an extensive writeup on his video/streaming setup. I’ve spent quite a bit of time obsessing over lights and camera, and I wanted to help you—new streamer, podcaster, new remote worker, or someone trying to level up their setup—see a few different types of option for your remote work or streaming setup. …

Realtime Face and Hand Tracking in the browser with TensorFlow

The MediaPipe and Tensorflow.js teams have released facemesh and handpose: The facemesh package infers approximate 3D facial surface geometry from an image or video stream, requiring only a single camera input without the need for a depth sensor. This geometry locates features such as the eyes, nose, and lips within the face, including details such …

A Variable Fonts Primer

Now that Google Fonts has some Variable Fonts in their offering, this primer on Variable Fonts might come in handy: Variable fonts let you add nuance and artistry to your web typography without bogging down your site. Now you can accomplish what used to require several files with a single file and some CSS! The …

Staggered Animations with CSS Custom Properties

Paul Hebert on the Paul Hebert blog: Movement in nature doesn’t happen all at once. Imagine a flock of birds taking off, raindrops splashing on the ground, or trees bending in the wind. The magic of these moments comes from many small movements overlapping and converging. I wanted to bring this natural movement into my …

react-native-ble-plx – React Native Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) library

This is React Native Bluetooth Low Energy library using RxBluetoothKit and RxAndroidBle under the hood. scanAndConnect() { this.manager = new BleManager(); // Wait for PoweredOn state this.manager.startDeviceScan(null, null, (error, device) => { if (error) { return; } // Check if it is a device you are looking for based on advertisement data // or other …

Extract URLs, usernames, hashtags, etc. from tweets with twitter-text-js

If you ever have to work with Tweets, then twitter-text-js will surely come in handy: A JavaScript utility that provides text processing routines for Tweets. The library provides autolinking and extraction for URLs, usernames, lists, and hashtags. The following snippet for example will autolink the hashtag and the mentioned username: twitter.autoLink(twitter.htmlEscape('#hello < @world >')) Installation …

4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover

Good writeup by Katherine Kato of several techniques on how to change the color of a link on hover, animated Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors. There are four different techniques we can use …

Telling the story of performance

Interesting approach by Clearleft on how they make performance clear to their clients. Instead of showing waterfall charts to their clients, they show them videos: Download the video of your client’s site loading. Then repeat the test with the URL of a competitor. Now take those videos and play them side by side. This is …