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
A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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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class-names – Conditionally join CSS class names togetherOne of the packages I’ve been using a lot is classnames, a simple JavaScript utility for conditionally joining classNames together. Recently I stumbled upon @sindresorhus/class-names, a likewise package whose usage is very similar. import classNames from '@sindresorhus/class-names'; // Think of these like props of your React component … const props = { type: 'success', small: …
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react-use – Browser APIs as React Hooks
react-use is a collection of React Hooks that wrap many browser APIs and functions. Want to track the geolocation of a device? Use useGeolocation. Want to read the battery status? Use useBattery. Etc. import {useBattery} from 'react-use'; const Demo = () => { const batteryState = useBattery(); if (!batteryState.isSupported) { return ( <div> <strong>Battery sensor</strong>: …
Just announced at React Native EU is an alpha release of React Navigation 5.0, a navigator for use with React Native. An exploration of a component-first API for React Navigation for building more dynamic navigation solutions. Should play well with static type system Navigation state should be contained in root component (helpful for stuff such …
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Tinderin, by Dries Depoorter: Side by Side profile pictures of LinkedIn & Tinder of the same person. Series of 10 photo frames. Quite sure those are the “clean ones” … 🔥 Be sure to check out Dries his other work too. Installations such as Quickfix, a vending machine that sells followers and likes, are really …
Back in the day I set up a few VPSes with WHM/cPanel on to host some sites. As back then the certificates for the cPanel services (FTPD, SMTP, WHM, …) were self-signed and Let’s Encrypt was still in its early days, I also ordered a wildcard certificate for *.3rds.be along with that and configured WHM …
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