Replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz in any file url There’s no step two I see a good use case for education/demos this. Also love how everything flies in and out of the screen. Smooth GitHistory.xyz → GitHistory.xyz Source (GitHub) →
Automatically create an APK from your Progressive Web App with PWA2APK
As mentioned in How to publish your PWA onto the Google Play Store it’s now possible to publish your PWA’s onto the Google Play Store. Thanks to PWA2APK you no longer need to manually create your APK: “just” enter the URL of your PWA and an APK – which you’ll need to publish manually – …
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Making Future Interfaces: Inline SVG
Another great entry in the “Making Future Interfaces” video series by Heydon Pickering. This one here is a basic introduction to SVG. Like with his other videos: even if you already know about the topic he’s talking about: just watch it, the presentation style and puns are great 🙂 Related: Here’s a post of mine …
tailflix – A drop-in replacement for tail -F that asks you if you are still watching
Can’t Unsee – A game where your attention to details earns you a lot of coins.
CSS Grid: Excel Spreadsheet
Worth a peek, to see how it’s built. I like how the .cells__number cells are locked to the first column, independent of their order in the source code: grid-column: 1 / span 1; CSS Grid: Excel Spreadsheet →
Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks
Dan Abramov’s blog Overreacted is pure gold and contains a ton of information. Take today’s post “Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks” for example, in which he explains why setInterval and Hooks (which should be released in today’s planned React 16.8 release) don’t play that nice together out of the box. // This won’t work …
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How to publish your PWA onto the Google Play Store
Thanks to the Trusted Web Activity feature in Chrome 72 on Android, the Google Play Store is now open for Progressive Web Apps. Chrome 72 for Android is now shipping from the Play Store to all users and this version included Trusted Web Activity (TWA), that in a nutshell is a way to open Chrome …
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Bohemian Rhapsody
The Modem Dialup Sound, Visualised
Remember the dialup sound of your modem from back in the day? Those beeps and glitches aren’t just random garbage, but they’re the handshake between two modems trying to agree on which language they’ll be speaking to one another. Oona Räisänen has created this nice poster of a spectogram of said handshake, detailing what each …