A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Ahmad Shadeed created this extensive RTL reference. Over 292 million people around the world speak Arabic as their first language. Arabic is my native language, and I sometimes build websites that need to support both left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left (RTL) styles. Be sure to read the section on CSS Logical Properties too, as that will …
Embedded above, but also available as a transcript, is Scott Jehl’s talk “Move Fast & Don’t Break Things” on how to keep your website performant. The talk starts of with Progressive Enhancement (of course!) and covers things such as Responsive Images, Native Lazy Loading of Images, font-display: swap;, Paint Metrics, etc. Move Fast & Don’t …
Mattias Geniar shared his Caddyfile – a config file for the high promising Caddy Webserver – for use with a Laravel backed website. His config file takes care of all of these: Redirect all versions of the domain to domain.tld, without the www-prefix Enable gzip compression Store logs in the home dir of the site, …
Presentation by Pieter Beulque, as given at the most recent FronteersBE meetup, in which he builds a Tweet Embed using Web Components’ Custom Elements. As a front-end developer, you’re always confronted with making choices. In this talk I cover the benefits you get for free when considering W3C standards or standard browser API’s instead of …
dfimageMight come in handy: Similar to how the docker history command works, this Python script is able to re-create the Dockerfile (approximately) that was used to generate an image using the metadata that Docker stores alongside each image layer. $ docker pull laniksj/dfimage Using default tag: latest latest: Pulling from dfimage $ alias dfimage=”docker run …
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Aggelos Arvanitakis, writing for the Web Performance Calendar 2019 edition: Besides some of the great advantages CSS-in-JS boasts over traditional CSS, it may still create performance issues in certain apps. In this article, I will attempt to demystify the high-level strategies of the most popular CSS-in-JS libraries, discuss the performance issues they may introduce on …
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Bref comes as a Composer package and helps you deploy PHP applications to AWS and run them on AWS Lambda. Bref uses the Serverless framework to configure and deploy serverless applications. Being the most popular tool, Serverless comes with a huge community, a lot of examples online and a simple configuration format. After installing an …
Solid intro to test your React apps with either Enzyme or React Testing Library: In this tutorial, we will look at how to do that by making use of a to-do application built with hooks. We’ll cover writing of tests using Ezyme and React Testing Library, both of which are able to do just that. …
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