A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Coming to the next version of ArcGIS is the “Spilhaus projection”: In September and October of 2018, three maps went viral on social media and the web. All of them had the same perspective, featured oceans as the main focus, and presented the oceans as one body of water. The maps were based on the …
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When watching a diff that contains a lockfile (say: a yarn.lock for example) on GitHub, GitHub doesn’t always show the differences (see screenshot above) as the changes in such files tend to be quite big. And even if it were to show the changes, does one really take a close look into it? With this …
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Zell Liew deconstructed and recreated the gradient links as seen on CSS-Tricks When I saw the CSS Tricks redesign, I was hooked. I loved the links with gradients. I told myself I’m going to use gradient links for my next project. The result looks like this: Uses the aforementioned box-decoration-break to span styles across multiple …
Another great entry in the Vox Earworm series: Bach’s six cello suites are considered a rite of passage for cellists. They’re masterpieces of classical music, and the prelude in G major — the first movement of the suites — is perhaps the best example of Bach’s power as a composer. In it, he’s able to …
Congrats to the Spatie team with the release of Mailcoach: Mailcoach is a self-hosted email list manager. It integrates with services like Amazon SES, Mailgun or Sendgrid to send out mailings affordably. Stand-alone, or integrated in a Laravel project, it’s perfect for bloggers, artisans and entrepreneurs. Now with an introductory price of $99 (instead of …
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Software developers can accidentally leak sensitive information, particularly secret keys for third party services, across code hosting platforms such as GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket. These secrets — including the data they were protecting — end up in the hands of bad actors which ultimately leads to significant data breaches. Imagine being able to monitor the …
Hugo Giraudel, engineer at N26: In the last few years, we have seen more and more ways to build highly interactive web applications relying almost exclusively on JavaScript. To the point where we almost wonder whether we forgot from where we come from. Not so long ago was a time was JavaScript was just sprinkled …
google/cloud-functions-framework – Google Cloud Functions Framework for PHP
google/cloud-functions-framework is an open source FaaS (Function as a Service) Framework for writing portable PHP functions. An example function looks like this: <?php use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request; function helloHttp(Request $request) { return "Hello World from PHP HTTP function!" . PHP_EOL; } One can invoke it locally by executing the included router as follows: export FUNCTION_TARGET=helloHttp export FUNCTION_SIGNATURE_TYPE=http …
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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up webhooks by Zapier to send information to a third-party service and how to integrate them into your JAMstack site using Netlify Functions. This combination allows you to quickly and easily create dynamic functionality on your JAMstack site and create services that do things existing APIs …
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deno.town – A web REPL for experimenting with the Deno API
deno.town is a REPL to play with the aforementioned Deno, a new take on Node as if it were designed today. deno.town → ⁉️ If you’re looking for a shorter intro to Deno, this talk by Bert Belder at DotJS has got you covered: