Leveraging GitHub Workflows’ Scheduled Events (read: cronjobs that run on GitHub) the folks at De Voorhoede let their static site automatically be rebuilt overnight. They do this because they have some external content, which doesn’t get committed into the repo, included on their site. Static websites don’t update by themselves. In case of code changes …
Automatically compress images to your Pull Requests with this GitHub Action
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…” – Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails
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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JavaScript to Know for React
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 …
ESNext: Proposals to look forward to (Fronteers Jam Session)
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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Secrets in Serverless
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 …
CSS Grid: Avengers Magazine Layouts
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
lazygit – Simple Terminal UI for git Commands
“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
How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage
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, …
RE: Overengineered packages?
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: …