A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
“Higher Level Custom Properties” are Custom Properties that control multiple other CSS Properties. Although still a proposal it’s worth having a look already as they’re really exciting.
As the syntax for CSS Custom Properties is overly permissive it’s possible to store a JavaScript attack vector in them …
vi over SSH
One of the things that kept on bothering me when SSH’ing is that the keys of the numpad would not work in vi: when pressing any key on the numpad, another key would be sent somehow. Should’ve Google’d this a lot earlier because the fix is very simple: in the preferences of Terminal, go to …
css-houdini-circles — A Houdini Paint Worklet that draws Colorful Background Circles
Last night — inspired by the Paint Worklet demos on Houdini.how — I decided to give Houdini a spin myself and created my own Paint Worklet. The result is css-houdini-circles which draws a bunch of random circles on the background. As a user you can configure the number of circles, the size range, the opacity …
I needed to test whether mail relaying worked with Exim or not. To do so I used this command: exim -v [email protected] After this type in your mail contents as shown below and hit CTRL+D afterwards to send it: From:[email protected] Subject: Hello From the CLI This is a test from the CLI It’s also possible …
caret-color property
Thanks to this tweet by Álvaro Trigo I found out that you can change the color of the caret — that little blinking | in text inputs — using the caret-color CSS property: There are CSS properties I never heard of before! Hello `caret-color` 👋 pic.twitter.com/ndcDUjN13R — Álvaro Trigo 🐦🔥 (@IMAC2) November 24, 2020 Example: …
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aspect-ratio
In “CSS Box Sizing Module Level 4” a new aspect-ratio CSS property is defined. Let’s take a look on how to use it …
When building applications on build pipelines like GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build, CircleCI, etc. every second counts. Here’s this small trick I use to speed up build times: when cloning the repo from its Git source, I instruct Git to do a shallow clone of the single branch it is building. 💡 If you’re running …
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Just announced on the Chromium mailing list is an “Intent to Prototype” Container Queries. Let’s take a look at the proposed syntax …
When double clicking a form’s submit button your form will be sent twice. With a tad of JavaScript this can be prevented from happening.