It’s been a while since I’ve posted a music video. Here’s one by Kaytranada, taken from his album “99.9%”. The album has been on repeat ever since it dropped in May, and has already taken its place in my “Best Albums of 2016” list.
Kanye deconstructed: The human voice as the ultimate instrument
Once again a great video by the folks over at Vox — their videos are always insightful, clear, well narrated, edited nicely, etc. In this video they talk about Kanye West and usage of the human voice throughout his oeuvre: Kanye West’s music orbits around the power and flexibility of the human voice. Take “Wolves” …
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Minify: A JavaScript and CSS Minifier Written in PHP
MatthiasMullie\Minify is a JavaScript and CSS Minifier written in PHP. Usage is straightforward: use MatthiasMullie\Minify; $sourcePath = '/path/to/source/css/file.css'; $minifier = new Minify\CSS($sourcePath); // we can even add another file, they'll then be // joined in 1 output file $sourcePath2 = '/path/to/second/source/css/file.css'; $minifier->add($sourcePath2); // or we can just add plain CSS $css = 'body { color: …
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React + The Shadow DOM = ReactShadow
By using ReactShadow you have all the benefits of Shadow DOM in React. import ShadowDOM from 'react-shadow'; export default props => { return ( <ShadowDOM include={['css/core/calendar.css', props.theme]}> <h1>Calendar for {props.date}</h1> </ShadowDOM> ); } Installation per npm, of course: npm i react-shadow –save ReactShadow (GitHub) →ReactShadow Demo →
Title Design: The Making of Movie Titles
Making viewport units work properly in Mobile Safari
A typical issue with the well supported Viewport Relative Units (you know: vh, vw, vmin, and vmax) that bothers me a lot is that MobileSafari (Safari on iOS) takes the height of the address bar into account for 100vh. Take a look at the footer of that first block in the screenshot below: since its …
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Grade.js
This JavaScript library produces complementary gradients generated from the top 2 dominant colours in supplied images. Apply the Grade function to elements wrapping the source images: <script src="path/to/grade.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> window.addEventListener('load', function(){ Grade(document.querySelectorAll('.gradient-wrap')) }) </script> … <div class="gradient-wrap"> <img src="./samples/finding-dory.jpg" alt="" /> </div> Installation possible with npm: npm install grade-js Grade.js →Grade Source (GitHub) →
Mission Control – Remote Config Utility for iOS, OSX, …
Have you ever wished you could change some config parameter for your app without deploying a new version? Of course you have! Wouldn’t it be great if you had whole config for your app in the cloud and change it as you see fit? Of course it would! Well, go ahead, just put some config …
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