A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Just out: a new layout for Facebook. You might recognize the style they’ve been pushing out in Messenger and the Facebook App. Also comes with Dark Mode. The new layout will be rolled out to everyone over the next few months, but you can already opt-in manually by clicking the arrow on the right in …
clip-path
On Codrops there’s a tutorial on how to create a Cutout Collage Layout using CSS Grid and Clip Path. The result looks quite nice I must say: What I’m not too excited about in this implementation is the fact that it requires you to manually cut up the image into parts beforehand, even though clip-path …
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Request / Response and Swoole Request / Response classes with swoole-http-message-bridge
Today I was implementing an HTTP Server using Swoole. At its core, the code looks just like the Swoole HTTP Server example: <?php $http = new \Swoole\HTTP\Server("127.0.0.1", 9501); $http->on('request', function (\Swoole\HTTP\Request $request, \Swoole\HTTP\Response $response) { // … $response->end(); }); $http->start(); In that same project I was also looking to use a package that evolves around …
Baller addition (in preview) to Azure Functions: Azure Functions offers first-class support for a limited number of languages. Now in preview, register custom handlers by providing a lightweight HTTP server in any desired language. Use this new capability to extend the language support for your applications, enabling the use of languages or language versions not …
Small site by @mathias (who else?) on the Unicode support in browsers their JavaScript engines. Changes in the Unicode Standard can affect the JavaScript language. This page gives concrete examples and tracks which exact Unicode version each browser supports for each feature. What surprises me is that some engines support different Unicode versions per feature. …
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The Docker folks have released their first GitHub Action build-push-action which builds and pushes Docker images and will log in to a Docker registry if required. Building and pushing an image becomes really easy: uses: docker/build-push-action@v1 with: username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }} repository: myorg/myrepository tags: latest Amongst other options you can also …
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Update 2020.06.09: here’s a full tutorial to get you started with RedwoodJS. Now here’s an interesting project: Redwood is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on …
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Just some goofing around with Full Page Sections and Scroll Snapping: [CODEPEN DEMO] 🔗 Related Post:Simple Scroll Snapping Carousel (Flexbox Layout / Grid Layout)
Chris Coyier, after seeing the footer on a site called The Markup: The footer is clever, in how it appears to slide out from underneath the content as you scroll to the bottom of the page. Let’s make it! Scroll to the very bottom in this pen to see the footer appear from underneath the …
.gitignore file
Sebastian De Deyne, after seeing too many PRs that contain unrelated commits to the repository’s .gitignore: There’s a better solution to this: a personal, global .gitignore file for all your repositories. Here’s how you can set one up. Setting up a global .gitignore file →