Back in June I was invited to speak at JSConf.be. This year’s edition focused on DevSecOps and Security. My talk “Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run” — which I have brought forward before at Full Stack Ghent and PHP-WVL — was a perfect match for it. Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform by […]
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ESNext: Declarations in Conditionals (Stage-1)
An ECMAScript Language Feature that I’m looking forward to is Declarations in Conditionals. It adds the capability to declare variables inside conditional statements. Let’s take a look … ~ Setting the Scene Say you want to iterate over an array which might be tucked away inside an object. To do so, you’d most likely first […]
Simple Image Gallery with display: grid; and object-fit: cover;
On the Full Stack Belgium Slack channel, user @Brammm recently asked how to create a simple image gallery. Anyone have a favorite way of making an image grid with CSS? I’d like one of those “fancy” ones where no matter the aspect ratio of the image, they all have the same gap between them. While […]
InfluxDB Flux: type conflict: int != float
In a Flux query I was writing I wanted to negate the fetched values using a map function to multiply each value by -1: map(fn: (r) => ({ _value: r._value * -1 })) To my surprise this yielded an error: type conflict: int != float Took me a few Google Search Coupons to realize the […]
ESNext: Proposals to look forward to (ESNEXT Conf)
Happening right now is ESNEXT Conf a fully remote conference exploring the future of JavaScript and the web. When I saw the CFP float by, it sounded like a perfect match for my talk “ESNext: Proposals to look forward to”. Thankfully the organisers – Fred and Drew from Pika – also felt that ways and […]
The Sound of Silence
If you’re a regular reader of bram.us you might have noticed that I haven’t posted anything here during the past month. In short: I’ve been busy with many (personal) things that needed my attention. Here’s a few of the things that kept me from blogging … Public Speaking With COVID-19 many conferences have switched to […]
JavaScript Yellow
Back in November I was invited to speak at Full Stack Europe 2019. At the conference I was scheduled to do a pre-conference workshop on React and a lightning talk named “JavaScript Yellow”. Last week the video said talk got released: References: javascript-yellow Robustness and least power by Jeremy Keith / Adactio Thanks again to […]
Don’t charge your MacBook Pro from the left side. Use the right side.
Ever since September 2019 I had this issue with my MacBook Pro where kernel_task would sometimes spike up to > 1000% (!) CPU load and drain my battery – even while connected to a charger. Second time this month kernel_task (with pid 0) decided to go nuts and drain my battery until my macbook shut […]
CSS-Only Resizable Elements
In Playing With (Fake) Container Queries Chris used the <resize-asaurus> web component to make the elements resizable. Curious to see how that worked I dug into its source. As I was expecting a truckload of JavaScript to make it work, I was very surprised to see that it basically revolved around using just one single […]
ESNext: Proposals to look forward to (JS VidCon / JavaScript Remote Conf)
The past few days I’ve been attending some virtual conferences. At JS VidCon and JavaScript Remote Conf I also joined as a speaker, to bring forward my ever-evolving talk “ESNext: Proposals to look forward to” With the yearly ECMAScript releases (ES2015..ES2020) of a lot of things have changed in JavaScript-land, and there’s even more to […]