In this feature length documentary the viewers are taken into a secret operation where a group of Finnish cave divers try to retrieve the bodies of their friends from deep inside underwater cave in Norway. Now they have to face the burden of their own fears during this life-threatening mission. It’s only mentioned very quickly …
Mixed Content and Responsive Images
Interesting issue Jonathan Snook ran into when switching a site over to HTTPS. Even though images from HTTP resources should still get loaded by the browser (as they are Passive Mixed Content, and thus tolerated), they weren’t: After some digging, I noticed that the images that weren’t loading were those defined using the <picture> element. …
A checklist for all projects that are going live
The folks over at Spatie have open sourced the checklist they run each site/project through before hitting the “Go Live” switch. This kind of stuff should be open sourced more often. The list is a good starting point to creating your own list, but of course your mileage may vary depending on the type of …
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The Most Beautiful Shots in The History of Disney
Why a software patch is called a patch
Software Bugs A common misconception is that a software bug is called a bug because of an actual bug that was once found. The story goes that Grace Hopper found a moth stuck in Harvard University’s Mark II calculator in 1947 and that she taped it inside a logbook with the words “First actual case …
The Five Freedoms of Aviation
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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