Back in August 2014 I pre-ordered a Navdy. Last week, 2 years later than expected, my unit finally arrived. Was this long wait worth the while? YES! Navdy? The Navdy is an aftermarket “Head-Up Display” for your car. Where your Bluetooth-enabled car radio acts as an audio extension to your smartphone, the Navdy acts as …
Reverse clip path with blend modes
Nice example on applying an SVG-defined clipPath using CSS. Note that’s it no simple triangle in the example, but a triangle with an inner triangle cut out, created using the reverse clip path approach by Ana Tudor. The gif and the extra background-blend-mode: screen; also give it a nice touch 🙂 Reverse clip path with …
Disable all Keyboard and Trackpad Input with Little Fingers
If you have a toddler running around, Little Fingers by Shaun Inman – who created it for his own need – will come in handy. Little fingers want to explore. Press Shift + Control + Option + Command + L to lock down your Keyboard, Trackpad, Touch Bar, and/or Mouse. Press it again to unlock. …
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Portal in Augmented Reality with HoloLens
Form Design for Complex Applications
From complex ERP systems to Facebook, applications make meaning out of input. The form — in its many manifestations — provides a gateway for user submission. This article illustrates 13 different ways to present forms, and explores the future of data input. Good overview and good naming conventions used: Modal, Multi-modal, Slideout, Popover, Inline, … Form Design for Complex …
ES6 ES2015: Easily remove duplicates from an Array
Say you have a JavaScript Array containing duplicate values. By creating a Set – which only stores unique values (primitive values or object references) – and then spreading that Set into a new Array you can easily dedupe the given Array: // Array with duplicates const arr = [7, 3, 1, 3, 3, 7]; // …
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Easily manipulate images in PHP with spatie/image
Great new package by the folks at Spatie to working with images in PHP, powered by Glide. Glide itself is great, but uses an URL based approach (which has its benefits); yet in most cases I find myself using a code based approach. This is where spatie/image comes into play: spatie/image wraps up Glide so …
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Microsoft GVFS (Git Virtual File System)
Interesting stuff by Microsoft. to handling big repositories such as their Windows code base which “has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size”. Instead of splitting the code into several manageable submodules, they’ve created a virtual filesystem to support big repositories: GVFS (Git Virtual File System) virtualizes the file system beneath …
MoonMail – Send e-mail marketing campaigns using AWS, SES, and Lambda
Send email marketing campaigns with Amazon SES. Let Amazon Lambda compose email by email and literaly scale it to infinite. With MoonMail you can: create & edit lists of recipients (email addresses) and store them within a DynamoDB. Create & edit html email marketing campaigns, send them and track their opens and clicks. MoonMail → …
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