When you first start planning a big trip, step one will likely happen at the Google search bar. Step two might be clicking onto the images of your target destination. The North Face, in a campaign with agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made, took advantage of this consumer behavior to keep its name top of mind …
Unraveling the JPEG
“Unraveling the JPEG” is a great deep dive into the JPEG image format. This article is about how to decode a JPEG image. In other words, it’s about what it takes to convert the compressed data stored on your computer to the image that appears on the screen. It’s worth learning about not just because …
SwiftUI
Yesterday, apart from revealing a $999 monitor stand, Apple announced SwiftUI which got me quite excited. SwiftUI is an innovative, exceptionally simple way to build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift. Build user interfaces for any Apple device using just one set of tools and APIs. With a declarative Swift …
The Economics of Open Source // Introducing Entropic, a federated package registry
At JSConf EU 2019, CJ Silverio – former CTO at NPM Inc – gave this talk on why a VC-funded private package registry (read: the one ran by NPM Inc) holds many dangers. The JS package commons is in the hands of a for-profit entity. We trust NPM Inc with our shared code, but we …
macOS Mojave: Disable the floating screenshot thumbnail (using defaults write)
A tweet that’s been making rounds this week is on how to disable macOS Mojave’s floating screenshot preview thumbnail (and remove that delay along with it). PSA: If you’re on macOS Mojave, you can revert to the old, good, screenshot behavior (no floating screenshot thumbnail, no delay before file shows on desktop) ✨1: ⌘+Shift+52: Click …
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CSS Grid Generator
Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo), now at Netlify, created a handy tool to visually create CSS Grid Layouts. Handy if you’re not all to familiar with it, yet. CSS Grid Generator →CSS Grid Generator Source (GitHub) →
The Disco Invention that Changed Pop Music
I’ve been enjoying – and have linked to – the videos by Vox quite a lot, especially those from Vox Earworm. This video on how disco’s newly invented vinyl format – the 12-inch single – revolutionized pop music in the ’70s, is something right up my alley:
Including content from other files in your HTML (“HTML Includes”)
Nice find by Scott Jehl from Filament Group: Instead of fetching files over XHR and then injecting their contents, you can also use an iframe + leverage its onload event to include the contents of any other file directly into the current web page. <iframe src="signal.svg" onload="this.before((this.contentDocument.body || this.contentDocument).children[0]);this.remove()" ></iframe> The example above loads up …
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Well Aimed: How well do you know CSS Selectors?
Fun little quiz, testing your CSS Selectors knowledge. Well Aimed: How well do you know CSS Selectors →
Evolution of Webdesign
The Evolution Of Webdesign is a collection and imitation of Webdesign Trends from 1991 to 2015. In this project I researched and tried to represent a fixed content with typical attributes for each year. Utterly brilliant! Evolution of Webdesign → Via Jeremy