A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
classnames-components – A classnames component wrapper to speed up styling React components
Geoffrey has created a handy package to quickly create React components that are built of an element with some CSS classes applied to them. Handy for when you’re working with CSS libraries such as Tailwind. import cc from 'classnames-components'; // using arguments const Header = cc('h1')('font-sans', 'text-3xl'); // using an array const Intro = cc('p')(['font-serif', …
These lines aren’t injected using ::after or the like, but are done via backgrounds. The key CSS property you’re looking for is display: inline; though, as set on the p elements; without it, it won’t work. That last swipe effect also uses box-decoration-break clone; so that each line animates in parallel.
Adrian Bece writing for Smashing Magazine: Houdini, an umbrella term for the collection of browser APIs, aims to bring significant improvements to the web development process and the development of CSS standards in general. Frontend developers will be able to extend the CSS with new features using JavaScript, hook into CSS rendering engine and tell …
Michelle Barker has used CSS Motion Path to align text along a path: The “Motion Path” name is a little misleading, as it doesn’t only relate to movement. In fact, although the specification still goes by the name “Motion Path”, the property used to define the path was changed from motion-path to offset-path. It’s easy …
Tim Kaldec takes a look at our modern workflow – in which lots of tools have removed friction – and makes the case to add some “healthy friction”: A lot of modern workflow improvements have been around removing friction. We want to make it easier to deploy rapidly. Tools like npm make it very easy …
Great “hack” popularized by Lea Verou (but first discovered by Leandro): if you place an emoji inside <text> in an SVG Favicon you instantly have an Emoji Favicon 🙂 Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how to turn any emoji into a favicon.svg: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100"><text y=".9em" font-size="90">💩</text></svg> Useful …
Directly installing a package with npm install and referring to its local path is a quick way to work with a local package. To be safe though, the usage of npm link is still recommended. The npm link way To work with local NPM packages on can reside to using npm link. You make a …
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If you’re ever doing a livestream you might run into the problem that you’re about to expose sensitive information on your screen, such as UUIDs, emails, passwords, etc. For Azure Portal specifically there’s a browser extension called Azure Mask that does it all for you: This is a browser extension that will mask GUIDs (such …
Now this is a step forward: gqless is a fundamentally new approach to a GraphQL client. It makes using your API enjoyable, by generating queries at runtime based upon the data your app consumes. Here’s an example app of it in action. Notice how the data it fetched automagically, depending on what is to be …
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Always notice how in sci-fi movies the computers make those weird bleepy sounds? Tom Hicks has created a JavaScript snippet that combines MutationObserver with AudioContext to recreate that effect. Copy this into the console of any web page that is interactive and doesn’t do hard reloads. You will hear your DOM changes as different pitches …