A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
react-three-fiber – React renderer for three.js
This is a React renderer for Threejs on the web and react-native. Building a dynamic scene graph becomes so much easier when you can break it up into declarative, re-usable components that react to state changes. This is less of an abstraction and more of a pure reconciler (like react-dom in relation to HTML). It …
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Page editors are a great way to provide an excellent user experience. However, to build one is often a pretty dreadful task. Craft.js solves this problem by modularising the building blocks of a page editor. It provides a drag-n-drop system and handles the way user components should be rendered, updated and moved – among other …
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The folks at IAmsterdam have released a map that measures distances not in miles / kms but in time. Select a spot + a means of transportation + a desired travel time and it’ll show you how far away (in time) you can get. From what I can tell European countries such as Belgium, France, …
Sparked by an idea by Wes Bos, John Papa has created and released a first version of Cloak: Cloak hides/shows your secrets in environment files, to avoid accidentally sharing them with everyone who sees your screen. Handy when doing screencasts and the like. Do note that it only visually hides the secrets, no changes are …
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In this article, we will focus on the security side of the framework. We will be dividing the article into the following sections: Securing app to server connection Securing local data Advanced integrity checks Securing React Native Applications →
In case you were still in doubt after this SIM port horror story from back in May: We examined the authentication procedures used by five prepaid wireless carriers when a customer attempts to change their SIM card, or SIM swap. We found that all five carriers use insecure authentication challenges that can easily be subverted …
With the release of “Edgium”, all major browsers now support Web Components. An effort 9 years in the making, but we’ve finally made it. WebComponents are supported natively in every major browser pic.twitter.com/6yPoTXno27 — Polymer Project (@polymer) January 15, 2020 Perfect time to link to this by Viljami Salminen in which he makes the case …
This XKCD comic is right up my alley: The projection does a good job preserving both distance and azimuth, at the cost of really exaggerating how many South Americas there are. 😂 Bad Map Projection: South America →
Mark Steadman from Deque: React can be an accessible application framework with the right knowledge and the right know-how. The stigma that it is not an accessible framework is simply not true. It has some of the best built-in accessibility functionality there is out there, and a large community of accessibility advocates that are creating …
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Two days ago, Microsoft released their new Edge browser — the one based on Chromium. Apart from a huge change in web features support it also pushes its privacy features – the new “Browser War” – forward. With this release the version numbering also jumped from 18 to the Chromium version number it is based …