A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Ryan Yu: There are many great techniques out there to improve the way we write CSS, and from my experience, I found the following three techniques that make up the BIO acronym work very well together BEM ITCSS OOCSS A lot of developers/engineers already know those famous techniques but I would like to go through …
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I first heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect at last year’s Fronteers Conference in a talk by Jessica Rose. In that talk she said that “the unskilled aren’t aware of their lack of own skill, and are unable to assess and value others’ skills”. This is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. This nice video goes into …
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Interesting blog post by TJ Vantoll, who works on NativeScript: In this article we’ll walk through Airbnb’s complaints in detail, and talk about how some of those same problems could’ve been handled in NativeScript. We’ll start with things that NativeScript does well (this is the NativeScript blog after all), and then move on to things …
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Highly interesting tool by Kitze: 🗂 Organize & group apps 🤖 Generate new apps 🔍 Search apps & preview files 🏃♂️ Quick actions ✅ Run scripts 🗄 Manage dependencies 🔌 Apply plugins 📄 Generate files This will surely help out developer starting with JavaScript based projects. More features are tweeted out regularly on JSUI’s Twitter …
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Jake Archibald discovered a really nice browser bug (which is fixed by now) by which he was able to steal data from remote sites by loading it in as a (fake) wav file. The exploit works as follows: Make a request to evil-script, using a Content-Range header to suggest there’s more data to be loaded …
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With CSS Grid being available, Max Böck set out to find himself a layout challenge: I went over to dribbble in search of layout ideas that are pushing the envelope a bit. The kind of design that would make frontend developers like me frown at first sight. He settled on the “Digital Walls” shot (pictured …
Gabriel Peal, Android developer at Airbnb: In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next. The result is a 5-part series of posts: Part 1: React Native at Airbnb Part 2: The Technology Part 3: Building a Cross-Platform …
Eliz Kılıç writes down something that’s been bothering me too: Apple introduced 3D Touch and its new related interactions Peek and Pop in 2014. It’s been almost 4 years since its first introduction, yet people don’t know/use 3D Touch. Why would they? Even tech-savvy users don’t know which buttons offer 3D touch. Let alone regular …