A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Yesterday I attended the April 2022 “Full Stack Ghent” Meetup, at the offices of In The Pocket. The evening consisted of 8 lightning talks. Being part of the speaker line-up, I kicked off the meetup with a talk titled “The C in CSS”. CSS is short for “Cascading Style Sheets”. But what exactly is this …
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From early May on, I’ll be working with Una, Adam, Jecelyn, and Jhey as a “Developer Relations Engineer, Chrome and Developer Tools”
@bramus/specificity v2
Back in February I created @bramus/specificity, an NPM package to calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors. As that version was more of a thought experiment/POC, there was a lot of room for improvement. Yesterday, after 11 betas, version 2.0.0 of @bramus/specificity was released. Let’s take a look … Quick Example To give you an idea …
WASD Controls on the Web: Don’t use KeyboardEvent.key but use KeyboardEvent.code
Beware when evaluating KeyboardEvent.key, as it doesn’t play nice with non-QWERTY keyboard layouts.
Last week I was invited to speak at the March 2022 UX Ghent meetup, a frontend-themed edition. I gave a talk called “Embrace the Platform”, which is all about Progressive Enhancement. The slidedeck is up on slidr.io, and is also embedded below: The slides themselves won’t tell you that much, though. To know the details, …
@bramus/specificity
Introducing `@bramus/specificity`, a JavaScript package to calculate the specificity of a given CSS Selector
@bramus/pagination-sequence
Introducing `@bramus/pagination-sequence`, a JavaScript package to generate a sequence of numbers for use in a pagination system, the clever way.
--resolve switch
It’s possible to force DNS resolving in cURL using the –resolve switch. The –resolve switch allows you to tell curl which address to request when it would resolve a given hostname. The format of the argument is domain:port:ip # HTTPS Example curl -I -L https://domain.example.org/ \ –resolve domain.example.org:443:192.168.0.1 # HTTP Example curl -I -L http://domain.example.org/ …
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The past few months, I’ve seen a lot of posts on Color Spaces and Colors in CSS float by. Here’s a small roundup.