A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Anna Debbenham – creator of styleguides.io – wrote a book on … Style Guides: Designers and developers have taken different approaches to putting together their own web-based style guides. This book highlights the various techniques and the projects that have used them. It’s packed with practical tips, whether you’re starting from scratch or assembling one …
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Jeremy Keith wrote a book, “Resilient Web Design”, on how to build a web that lasts: With a title like Resilient Web Design, you might think that this is a handbook for designing robust websites. This is not a handbook. It’s more like a history book. […] You won’t find any code in here to …
At midnight UTC on New Year’s Day, deep inside Cloudflare’s custom RRDNS software, a number went negative when it should always have been, at worst, zero. A little later this negative value caused RRDNS to panic. This panic was caught using the recover feature of the Go language. The net effect was that some DNS …
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Anil Dash was asked by Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter in case that name doesn’t ring a bell) if they could have a talk to spewing some ideas on fixing Twitter. Anil declined the talk. Instead, he wrote an article on Medium. Jack: I’ll give you this one for free, just because I still have …
Great writeup by David Gilbertson on creating this super fast loading website. Try not to make a slow site Do mobile first. Like, really do it. Be a benchmark hussy Client Side Rendering is expensive Don’t server-render HTML Inline stuff, probably Preload, then load Reward good behaviour Service workers: like me in high school (cool …
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The engineering team at WalmartLabs has been switching their (hybrid) web views to React Native: The data we’ve gathered is promising. It has shown that React Native is indeed a viable solution for mobile applications big and small. In the areas of graphical performance, RAM usage, and CPU, every measure we took was comparable to …
Facebook Live Reactions is a Linux script for creating Facebook Live Streams that contains interactive reaction counts. It also includes an interactive shoutout feature that gives live shoutouts to users who typed “shared” into the comment box. The livestreaming itself is handled through ffmpeg; whilst PHP takes care of the counting of all reactions and …
Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp, in an interview, answering a question on how his workspace is set up: I’m a one-computer guy—a 12″ MacBook, so I can work from anywhere. Years ago I used multiple monitors and had multiple computers. Then I jettisoned multiple computers but kept the multiple monitor setup. And a few years …
Earlier today I ran some tests to see how text-wrapping/hyphenation of long uninterrupted strings works in browsers. I tested both “normal” strings and strings of emojis. The tests (and its rendering results per browser) are stored on Codepen and embedded below: 💩 and ⚠️ behave differently (click to enlarge): These tests left me with some …
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Singapore GovTech data scientists share how they identified a rogue train as the cause of the recent MRT Circle Line disruptions: Singapore’s MRT Circle Line was hit by a spate of mysterious disruptions in recent months, causing much confusion and distress to thousands of commuters. From prior investigations by train operator SMRT and the Land …
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