The gap property for Flexbox about to land in Chromium 85. It allows you to define the size of the gutters between Grid/Flexbox children. CSS Grid brought a delightful spacing feature called grid-gap, which quickly became a popular way to put space into layouts. It was easy to fall in love with because it took […]
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ESNext: Logical Assignment Operators (||=, ??=, &&=)
Update 2020.07.21: This proposal made it into Stage-4 and will officially be part of ES2021 🥳 A new ECMAScript Proposal that I’m looking forward to is Logical Assignment Operators. In short it combines Logical Operators (||, &&, and ??) with Assignment Expressions (=). // "Or Or Equals" (or, the Mallet operator) a ||= b; // […]
100vh in Safari on iOS
When working with Viewport Units there’s this longstanding and extremely annoying bug in Safari on iOS where it does not play nice with the vh unit. Setting a container to 100vh for example will actually result in an element that’s a wee bit too high: MobileSafari ignores parts of its UI when calculating 100vh. Image […]
CSS Grid Layout Module Level 2: Masonry Layout
A long requested CSS feature is to be able to create a “Masonry Layout” using pure CSS. Today we can already create a Masonry-like layout using grid-auto-flow: dense;, but unfortunately that’s not the real deal. 🤔 Masonry Layout? Masonry is a grid layout based on columns, as popularized by Pinterest. Unlike other grid layouts, it […]
Colors in CSS: Hello Space-Separated Functional Color Notations
The CSS Color Module Level 4 spec introduces a new way to define colors in CSS: Space-Separated Functional Color Notations. Start using them today!
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode Toggle, using Vanilla JavaScript
In The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode, Joshua W Comeau extensively explains how he has implemented the Dark Mode Toggle on his Gatsby-powered website. It follows the system’s light/dark mode preference, but also allows for an override which he persists in localStorage. The flow to decide if Dark Mode should be used or not […]
Chrome vs. BlinkMacSystemFont: A Workaround
UPDATE 2020-04-28: Good news everyone! A workaround for this bug has landed in Canary (Chromium 84) and will be merged into the M83 release! The workaround described here still applies for Chromium 81. The problem As detailed before there’s this bug that shipped with Chromium 81 which somehow prevents the font-weight CSS property from being […]
Automatically Fix Bluetooth Audio Balance Drift in macOS with “Balance Lock”
It’s been over 10 years that I’ve been using macOS (then OS X) and every now and then I notice that the audio balance of my Bluetooth headset is off for no apparent reason. Hmm, why is the balance for my headphone suddenly off? Back in 2014 I was lucky enough to see this tweet […]
Installing old OS X versions: fixing “OS X could not be installed on your computer”
Here in Belgium schools are locked down due to #coronavirus. With the school of my two oldest kids now switching to remote teaching, I took the time to set up my old MacBook Pro (model late 2008) for my two oldest kids to use. That didn’t go without any hiccups though: the OS X installer […]
PHP Performance Tip: Use fully-qualified function calls when working with namespaces
TIL: When working with namespaced files in PHP it’s a huge performance win when using fully-qualified function calls. ~ If you’re calling is_null in your code, PHP will first check for the function’s existence in the current namespace. If not found there, it will look for the function in the global namespace. This extra check […]