A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Sara Soueidan: An icon button is an icon that triggers some sort of action on the page. More accurately, technically speaking, an icon button is a button that contains an icon and no (visible) accompanying text. Putting aside the UX side of the coin and whether or not an icon alone is enough to convey …
Using box-shadow, it’s possible to create a pixels on screen: See the Pen Pixel Art 3: Side-by-Side Box-Shadow by Jacque (@jschrag) on CodePen. As you can define multiple box-shadow entries – comma-separated – it’s possible to draw multiple pixels on screen … Creating Pixel Art with CSS →
With the recent 75 year remembrance of the Normandy Landings (D-Day), I was reminded of this video by Vox, from the Vox Darkroom series: “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” and “Raising a Flag over the Reichstag” are similarly iconic photos from World War II. They’re both beloved images of victory, and they’re both taken …
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As a (PHP) package developer, you sometimes have classes that are meant for internal use – inside the package itself – only. PHP has no built-in solution for this, but using a DocBlock Tag one can indicate its intended use. As Nuno Maduro explains: Maybe in the future, the PHP language will have the internal …
Brent has some thoughts on strong and weakly typed programming languages. Starting point: a simple function that needs testing: rgbToHex(red, green, blue) { // … } Testing the result the function should return is easy. But what about edge cases? What happens though if we pass doubles instead of integers? Or numbers outside of the …
Arun Venkatesan takes a deep dive into the design and engineering behind the new Mac Pro: Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC, this week in San Jose. In the keynote, aside from a slew of developer-focused software announcements, one new hardware announcement has attracted the most attention, the 2019 Mac Pro and Pro Display …
Yesterday the aforementioned Pika announced some new things. One of the things that stood out is Pika CDN: The Pika CDN was built to serve the 60,000+ npm packages written in ES Module (ESM) syntax. This module syntax runs natively in the browser, so you can build for the web without a bundler. With our …
Harry Roberts: One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. In this short and hopefully very straightforward post, I want to outline the disadvantages of hosting your static assets …
create-es-react-app – A create-react-app like template using only es-modules (no build step).
create-es-react-app is a create-react-app like template demonstrating how far you can get creating progressive web apps (using react) with no build step. It takes advantage of static and dynamic imports which enables you to break up your app into small reusable ES modules that are compiled for you by the browser at run time. TIL: …
Good news! Firefox 69 will support subgrid. As Rachel Andrew explains: In terms of new syntax, and new things to learn, this is a very small change for web developers who have learned grid layout. A grid defined as a subgrid is pretty much the same as a regular nested grid, albeit with its own …