I really dig the vw and vh units as – in some of the projects I work on – I really do need to place some things relative to the viewport itself. Never thought of using it to define font-sizes though 🙂 Viewport Unit Based Typography →
Styling Broken Images
Turns out it’s possible to style broken images. You know, from this: To this: But just “how”, one might ask? Because the <img> element is a replaced element controlled by an external source, the :before and :after pseudo-elements typically shouldn’t work with it. However, when the image is broken and not loaded, these pseudo-elements can …
Laravel Backup
If you’re a developer using Laravel I’d strongly recommend “Laravel Backup”, a package developed by the folks over at Spatie. Version 3 just got released: Laraval Backup can backup the files and databases of your application to one or more external filesystems. It uses Laravel’s native cloud filesystem to do this. The package can also …
Game of Thrones Season 6: Trailer
Medusae – Realtime soft body jellyfish simulation
Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript
Doing mostly JavaScript stuff it might sound weird to some that I wholeheartedly agree with this piece: I’m not saying that genuine web apps like Google Maps shouldn’t exist […] I’m saying that something has gone very wrong when basic features that already work in plain HTML suddenly no longer work without JavaScript. JavaScript is …
Vysor – A window to your Android
Time Trial: Augmented Reality Climbing
Web Monotony
Fire Chasers
Preview of an upcoming documentary: US wildfires burned 10 million acres in the US last year exceeding six billion dollars in costs, making it the most destructive annual natural disaster in the world. Fire Chasers plunges deeper into California wildfires than ever before with unprecedented access granted by CalFire and the breathtaking imagery of acclaimed …