Beau Carnes has released a massive collection of videos on JavaScript. My JavaScript Basics course is now live on freeCodeCamp’s YouTube channel. These videos are designed to quickly give you key information on each topic. Also, I designed them to be as modular as possible. They work fine as stand-alone videos, if you just want …
The Lotus Tree – White Bear
“The Lotus Tree” is a “Rock, Sludge, Metal, Post-Metal, Post-Rock” band from my hometown Deinze. Although I’m no big fan of metal nor screamo-stuff, I am a rather big post-rock fan (Slint!), thus making me like their sound. Whilst listening to this one I found myself nodding along with the track, and getting drawn into …
How Reddit built r/Place
Each year for April Fools’, rather than a prank, we like to create a project that explores the way that humans interact at large scales. This year we came up with Place, a collaborative canvas on which a single user could only place a single tile every five minutes. This limitation de-emphasized the importance of …
Typical display: flow-root; use case
Good display: flow-root; use case by Paul Bakaus: flow-root establishes a new block formatting context, but most have dismissed it as simply replacing clearfix hacks. But consider this extremely common case, where you have a few paragraphs of text, some bullet points and a floating image. In the image above you can see that the …
Combatting frost on the Chablis vineyards
To combat periods of frost during the nighttime on vineyards, cultivators make use of smudge pots to prevent the plants from being damaged by the frost. Alternatively they also sprinkle water on all plants so that they only have to endure a “light frost”. On Facebook I found this great set by photographer Titouan Rimbault …
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Faking node_modules in CodePen Projects
Update 2020.11.24: with Skypack being around and CodePen suggesting to rewrite your imports, there’s no need to use this hacky workaround anymore. With CodePen Projects you have a web IDE right in your browser, with preprocessing built-in. But what about installing dependencies via the npm ecosystem? With some minimal effort it’s possible: All you need …
Apple Live Photos for JavaScript Developers
In a rather surprising move Apple has released a JavaScript library to play Live Photos on the web on NPM: Use the LivePhotosKit JS library to play Live Photos on your web pages. The JavaScript API presents the player in the form of a DOM element, much like an image or video tag, which can …
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Why Rappers love Grey Poupon
When listening closely to HUMBLE. by Kendrick Lamar you can overhear him rap about “Grey Poupon”, a brand of whole-grain mustard. This reminded me of this gem by Vox unearthing the history of Grey Poupon in rap: HUMBLE. appears on the magnificent album DAMN.. If you haven’t listend to it yet, you should.
React VR – Build VR websites and interactive 360 experiences with React
React VR is a framework for the creation of VR applications that run in your web browser. It pairs modern APIs like WebGL and WebVR with the declarative power of React, producing experiences that can be consumed through a variety of devices. Leveraging web technologies and the existing React ecosystem, React VR aims to simplify …
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