A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
On Twitter, John Allsopp recently shared that Flexbox is the greatest thing that happed to CSS. I quickly chimed in with my personal favourite. To me the single greatest addition to CSS over the past 20 years is Custom Properties. They’ve opened up a ton of possibilities, and make us CSS Authors way more productive. …
Did you know you can import JSON and CSS files just like you import JavaScript Modules? Thanks to Import Assertions, it’s as easy as this: Building upon "Import Assertions" we recently saw JSON Modules land in V8/Chromium 91: “`import json from './foo.json' assert { type: 'json' };“` In Chromium 93 the same thing for CSS …
Continue reading “ESNext: Import Assertions (JSON Modules, CSS Modules, …)”
gcloud)
To manage cloud infrastructure I’m a huge fan of Terraform. Unfortunately I noticed that it’s not possible to use Terraform for managing API Keys for Google Maps (and other services). After some digging I found that the alpha version of the Google Cloud SDK has support for it. Commands available in the stable gcloud release: …
Continue reading “Manage Google Maps API keys with the Google Cloud SDK (gcloud)”
Coming with Container Queries are “Query Length Units”, a way to dynamically target the width/height of containers (cfr. viewport units). Let’s take a look …
@layer)
@layer) aim to ease this task.
If you have multiple accounts to use with Git — such as a personal and a work account — you can have your Git Config (typically ~/.gitconfig) conditionally include other configs depending on the folder you’re working in. In those extra configs you then can override some settings. Here’s an example ~/.gitconfig that has two …
Mid-August the WICG published a (unofficial) specification for a Native Eye Dropper — a tool you can use to get the color from the pixel that’s underneath the cursor — on the web. Let’s take a look … Usage The proposal is pretty straightforward: This API enables authors to use a browser supplied eyedropper in …
Continue reading “Pick Colors from websites your entire screen with the JavaScript EyeDropper API”
Support for Container Queries has landed in Chrome DevTools (Chrome 93). Let’s take a look at what this feature brings us today …
Jonathan Neal shared this little snippet on Twitter: Execute JavaScript modules like: bash ./command.js 1. Add the funky header.2. Optional: Omit the extension to not write `.js`.3. Optional: `chmod +x command` to not write `bash `.https://t.co/rhlPg2XPRJ pic.twitter.com/nbAvTFtt0w — Jonathan Neal (@jon_neal) July 25, 2021 Here’s the code: “:” //#;exec /usr/bin/env node –input-type=module – “$@” < …