Behind any commercial flight is centuries of political negotiations and accords that dictate who, how, and where airlines can fly. Interesting stuff! Explains why, for example, Norwegian Airlines can offer standalone flights between the USA to Guadaloupe and Martinique, even though that’s way out of their territory and airspace.
Joris Voorn 2016 Year Mix
One of the mixes that has been in my playlist ever since it was released: Like every year, it’s not about the hits, just some great tunes from the last year and maybe even some classics that I’ve been playing a lot this year. Joris Voorn 2016 Year Mix → TIP: There’s a download button …
Mailtrap.io – Fake SMTP testing server
var transport = nodemailer.createTransport({ host: ‘mailtrap.io’, port: 2525, auth: { user: ‘your-mailtrap-inbox-username’, pass: ‘your-mailtrap-inbox-pass’ } }); transport.sendMail({ … }); Mailtrap is a fake SMTP server for development teams to test, view and share emails sent from the development and staging environments without spamming real customers. Now this is great for testing: use mailtrap’s SMTP server …
Using science to make truly tappable user interfaces
Since the average human finger pad is 10 to 14mm — and the average fingertip is 8mm to 10mm we can pretty easily define a range for what constitutes a “truly tappable UI:” A truly tappable UI is built with elements that are at minimum around 10mm, with the optimum touch element size around 13mm. …
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Conditions for CSS Calculations
In CSS we have feature queries (@supports) available to create if–else-like structs. What if we could extend our means of using conditions in CSS? Roman Komarov provides us with a clever technique – which involves using CSS Custom Properties, calc(), and some binary logic – to implementing this type of conditions on a per CSS …
Free Book: Exploring ES2016 and ES2017
Free Book: Exploring ES6
An in-depth book on ECMAScript 6, for JavaScript programmers. Extensive book written by Axel Rauschmayer (whom you might know from 2ality.com), available for free online. It’s also possible to purchase as an ebook-version (.epub et al) of the book. Exploring ES6 – Upgrade to the next version of JavaScript →
Using Object.assign() to quickly set multiple inline styles
Since an HTMLElement its CSSStyleDeclaration (viz. its style property) essentially is an Object, it’s perfectly possible to pass it as the target object into Object.assign() along with a few other objects. The result is that all keys from those extra objects will be merged as CSS properties along with their values on the currently applied …
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