A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Caleb Porzio‘s “Project X” recently got its official name: Alpine.js. Alpine.js offers you the reactive and declarative nature of big frameworks like Vue or React at a much lower cost. You get to keep your DOM, and sprinkle in behavior as you see fit. It, like Vue which was one of its sources of inspirations, …
Freek is developing Mailcoach to send out e-mail campaigns. Along with the development of the package he’s recording a video series on how he has created it. In this video he talks about using “pending objects” to make the API more readable. In this video I demonstrate how to you can create a fluent API …
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Simple and to the point article, with a few commands included, by Dirk Hoekstra: In a nutshell, you give Google’s Cloud Run a Docker container containing a webserver. Google will run this container and create an HTTP endpoint. With Google’s App Engine however you tell Google how your app should be run. The App Engine …
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Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash Dan Abramov on how he once overnight refactored a piece of WET code written by a colleague, but then got called out for doing so: My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was …
From the folks at Basecamp, a guide on how/when/why they use chat/face-to-face/e-mail/… when communicating. Below you’ll find a collection of general principles we try to keep in mind at Basecamp when communicating with teammates, within departments, across the company, and with the public. They aren’t requirements, but they serve to create boundaries and shared practices …
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Kent C. Dodds lists 5 JavaScript Features he uses every day on JavaScript January Destructuring Modules Value defaults Arrow functions Promises and async/await I’d like to add Spreading and Template Literals to that list. 5 Modern JavaScript Features I Couldn’t Code Without →
Harry Roberts on how to set a Performance Budgets if you really don’t have a clue where to start: Time and again I hear clients discussing their performance budgets in terms of goals: “We’re aiming toward a budget of 250KB uncompressed JavaScript; we hope to be interactive in 2.75s”. While it’s absolutely vital that these …
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Must say I’m quite excited about Snowpack (formerly known as @pika/web, which I covered here) which just got released. With Snowpack you can build modern web apps (with React, Vue, etc.) without a bundler (like Webpack, Parcel, Rollup). No more waiting for your bundler every time you hit save. Instead, changes are ready in the …
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Peak Map allows you to visualize elevation of any area on the map with filled area charts (also known as a ridgeline) Think of Joy Division’s famous “Unknown Pleasures” album cover, but then as a map of the world. What surprised me is that here’s no set of pre-generated custom map tiles, but they are …
There’s a good deep dive into SVG Properties and CSS on CSS-Tricks: SVG has its own set of elements, attributes and properties to the extent that inline SVG code can get long and complex. By leveraging CSS and some of the forthcoming features of the SVG 2 specification, we can reduce that code for cleaner …