A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The folks at Calibre have release a GitHub Action named “Image Actions” and I must say, it looks amazing insane: Image actions will automatically compress jpeg and png images in GitHub Pull Requests. Compression is fast, efficient and lossless Uses mozjpeg + libvips, the best image compression available Runs in GitHub Actions, so it’s visible …
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Can I email is like Can I use but specifically for email: which HTML and CSS features are supported by which mail client? They also provide a scoreboard, ranking mail clients based on their support among the 70 HTML and CSS features listed on Can I email. Can I email… Support tables for HTML and …
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Good article by Kent C. Dodds, covering the JavaScript paradigms which are used quite a lot when writing React apps. Learning JavaScript features is really advisable for you to be effective building applications with React. So here are a few JavaScript features I’d recommend you spend some time learning so you can be as effective …
At last years’ edition of Fronteers Conference I gave a lightning talk on ESNext, covering the TC39 Process and highlighting three of my favorite proposals (some of which have hit Stage-3 by now!). Earlier this week they released the video of my (short) talk The lightning talk itself was a short version of a full …
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Good post on how and where to store your secrets when working in a Serverless / Cloud Environment — something I was wondering about myself a little while ago Serverless applications and cloud functions often need to communicate with an upstream API or service. Perhaps they require a username and password to connect to a …
Really nice CSS Grid demo by Olivia NG. It’s a magazine containing twelve pages on The Avengers: CSS Grid: Magazine Layouts → 💁♂️ Other nice CSS Grid Demos by Olivia include a Floor Plan and an Excel Spreadsheet
“Visual” Git Client for the CLI, which includes some features as seen in Sourcetree or Tower. Installation per Homebrew: brew install lazygit Be sure to check the keybindings. lazygit – Simple Terminal UI for git Commands → Related: tig might also float your boat
The Webkit blog, on how to optimize your pages so that they don’t drain the battery of your visitors their devices: Users spend a large proportion of their online time on mobile devices, and a significant fraction of the rest is users on untethered laptop computers. For both, battery life is critical. In this post, …
ℹ️ This is a reply to Johan Ronsse’s post “Overengineered Packages?”. Be sure to read it first. After having posted about the class-names package, Johan turned to Twitter to state that the package overengineered. In a follow-up blogpost he argues that: At the moment I feel like it’s only invented because of a deeper problem: …
For some online services such as Twitter and Facebook I have more than one account. Be it accounts for my company, an alter ego, my children, etc. To easily switch between these accounts – without logging out, back in, and doing the 2FA dance – I rely on a Chrome Extension named SessionBox which allows …
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