A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Freek is developing Mailcoach to send out e-mail campaigns. Along with the development of the package he’s recording a video series on how he has created it. In this video he talks about using “pending objects” to make the API more readable. In this video I demonstrate how to you can create a fluent API …
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Simple and to the point article, with a few commands included, by Dirk Hoekstra: In a nutshell, you give Google’s Cloud Run a Docker container containing a webserver. Google will run this container and create an HTTP endpoint. With Google’s App Engine however you tell Google how your app should be run. The App Engine …
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Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash Dan Abramov on how he once overnight refactored a piece of WET code written by a colleague, but then got called out for doing so: My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was …
From the folks at Basecamp, a guide on how/when/why they use chat/face-to-face/e-mail/… when communicating. Below you’ll find a collection of general principles we try to keep in mind at Basecamp when communicating with teammates, within departments, across the company, and with the public. They aren’t requirements, but they serve to create boundaries and shared practices …
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Kent C. Dodds lists 5 JavaScript Features he uses every day on JavaScript January Destructuring Modules Value defaults Arrow functions Promises and async/await I’d like to add Spreading and Template Literals to that list. 5 Modern JavaScript Features I Couldn’t Code Without →
Harry Roberts on how to set a Performance Budgets if you really don’t have a clue where to start: Time and again I hear clients discussing their performance budgets in terms of goals: “We’re aiming toward a budget of 250KB uncompressed JavaScript; we hope to be interactive in 2.75s”. While it’s absolutely vital that these …
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Yesterday evening I was working on a documentation page. The page layout is quite classic, as it consists of a content pane on the left and a sidebar navigation on the right. Looking for a way to make the page less dull I decided to add a few small things to it: Smooth Scrolling when …
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Ever since mid december I’ve had a few reports from people that they were seeing my blog – the thing you’re reading now – rendered in unreadable text. Instead of seeing a nice serif font, they got presented with some wingdings-like symbols for all the text when visiting through Chrome on macOS. Hmm, unreadable on …
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# Individual Transform Properties New in Firefox 72 is the ability to individually define CSS Transform Properties. You can now separately define scale, rotate, and translate CSS properties, instead of having to chuff them all into one single transform property. The translate, rotate, and scale properties allow authors to specify simple transforms independently, in a …
Must say I’m quite excited about Snowpack (formerly known as @pika/web, which I covered here) which just got released. With Snowpack you can build modern web apps (with React, Vue, etc.) without a bundler (like Webpack, Parcel, Rollup). No more waiting for your bundler every time you hit save. Instead, changes are ready in the …
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