Using AWS Lambda, SNS, Github Webhooks and AWS-SDK I’ve a created quite simple process to automate deployment of my site Use AWS Lambda, SNS and Node.js to automatically deploy your static site from Github to S3 →
Blueprint React UI Toolkit
Blueprint is a collection of React UI components, covering the majority of the common interface elements, patterns and interactions on the web. Using Blueprint ensures that you’ll end up with an elegant, easy-to-use UI, freeing you to focus on building your product—not the atomic pieces that comprise it. The UI components really are well written …
Westworld: What Makes Anthony Hopkins Great
Human Landscapes of the American Southwest
Rendering Markdown using Custom Elements v1
Inspired upon a v0 implementation, I’ve recreated a Markdown renderer in Custom Elements v1. The result is <custom-markdown>. The code itself is pretty straightforward: other than some (contained) styling the custom element uses showdown to convert the Markdown to HTML. This conversion is triggered in the connectedCallback(). class Markdown extends HTMLElement { constructor() { super(); …
Continue reading “Rendering Markdown using Custom Elements v1”
(Laravel) Uptime Monitor
Today Freek from spatie released a new package: Laravel-uptime-monitor is a powerful, easy to configure uptime monitor. It will notify you when your site is down (and when it comes back up). You can also be notified a few days before an SSL certificate on one of your sites expires. Under the hood, the package …
Working with Print Stylesheets
Often forgotten, but no less important: print styles. This post provides a nice summary of some simple things you can do to give your print layout some love. A small collection of useful CSS techniques and a quick reminder that print style sheets are still a thing. I totally forgot about print style sheets →
Romare – Come Close To Me
Google PhotoScan
Don’t just take a picture of a picture. Create enhanced digital scans, with automatic edge detection, perspective correction, and smart rotation. PhotoScan stitches multiple images together to remove glare and improve the quality of your scans. PhotoScan by Google (iOS) →PhotoScan by Google (Android) →
SolarCity and Tesla: Tau Microgrid
The future is happening: The island of Ta’u in American Samoa, located more than 4,000 miles from the West Coast of the United States, now hosts a solar power and battery storage-enabled microgrid that can supply nearly 100 percent of the island’s power needs from renewable energy. This provides a cost-saving alternative to diesel, removing …