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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 …
SVG Line Animation for the Uninitiated
CSS pseudo-classes
Great and visual explanation of CSS pseudo-classes such as :only-of-type, :first-of-type, :last-of-type, :nth-of-type(number/an + b/even/odd), … Embedded above is the visual for the selector: a:nth-last-of-type(1) { border: 2px solid black; } How CSS pseudo-classes work, explained with code and lots of diagrams →
Web Components: Introducing Custom Elements
One of the new features in Safari Technology Preview 18 is Custom Elements v1 (Chrome/Opera already support for it): To define a custom element, simply invoke customElements.define with a new local name of the element and a subclass of HTMLElement. Example Code: class CustomProgressBar extends HTMLElement { constructor() { super(); const shadowRoot = this.attachShadow({mode: 'closed'}); …
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The Two Americas of 2016
Getting ready for PHP 7.1
In short: Catching multiple exception types Curl HTTP/2 server push support Support class constant visibility Void return types Generalize support of negative string offsets Allow specifying keys in list() and square bracket syntax for array destructuring Warn about invalid strings in arithmetic Deprecate and remove mcrypt() Upcoming changes in PHP 7.1 → Don’t forget about …
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Does code need to be perfect?
Andreas Creten, founder of Made With Love, on different needs in code quality depending on what type of product (POC, MVP, …) you are making. Until your MVP really gets traction you can run on shitty code or even do things manually to prove you have a product/market fit. Only once you nail it and …
CSS Variables: var(--subtitle);
As per usual, great talk by Lea Verou: The key takeaway about CSS Custom Properties to me is the very first one Lea mentioned: they’re just properties like the other CSS properties we already know. This means that the normal behavior of inheritance is in place, you can manipulate them from within media queries, and …