A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The Mandalorian’s set used some serious Danger Room/Holodeck stuff to pull off a virtual shot-on-location feel for its many different settings, and powering the world projected on its giant LED wall was none other than Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. The setup allowed the cast to shoot in multiple locations in a single day, to …
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Brent shares his Laravel knowledge in a series of blog posts: In this series, I’ll write about the knowledge we gained over the years in designing Laravel projects. I will take a close look at the Laravel way, and what did and didn’t work for us. This series is for you if you’re dealing with …
A small utility to demystify CSS selectors, explaining them in plain English. Best part of it all: it updates the URL upon entering a selector so you get directly shareable links 🙂 Selectors Explained →
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The fine folks at GOV.UK: Until now, the GOV.UK Design System date input component used the HTML element <input type=”number” /> to provide a number keypad when a user enters dates. However, we recently moved away from <input type="number"> to <input type="text" inputmode="numeric" pattern="[0-9]*"> Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for …
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Nice demo by Adam Argyle to create a 4 Corner Gradient in CSS: Even though working with gradients has gotten some improvements, you’ll still need a trick to achieve this one: stack 2 simple linear gradients and use a linear mask to blend them together: mask-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, black);
I’ve been following Sebastian on Twitter for quite some time and am very excited to see that Rome – which he has been talking about for quite some time – has been released into the open … Rome, an experimental JavaScript toolchain, is now open source and available for contributors 🥳🏛️📜 It's far from production …
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Something we already knew, but that’s now written down by Adrian Roselli in a nice post: Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in text. Great to see that the statement is backed …
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Stefan Judis, devrel at Twilio, has created a CLI tool named create-phone-number-forwarding: A small CLI utility that buys a Twilio number and forwards incoming calls/SMS to your own number I like the fact that at its core it’s basically a shell script wrapping around the twilio binary (combined with tools like jq), also making use …
Background Fetch is a very simple plugin which will awaken an app in the background about every 15 minutes, providing a short period of background running-time. This plugin will execute your provided callbackFn whenever a background-fetch event occurs. import BackgroundFetch from "react-native-background-fetch"; export default class App extends Component { componentDidMount() { // Configure it. BackgroundFetch.configure({ …
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RoadRunner is an open-source (MIT licensed), high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis. RoadRunner includes PSR-7 compatible HTTP server. RoadRunner runs your application in the form of workers. The workers are kept alive in between requests. …