A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
If you’re just getting started with PHP and/or Homebrew, the whole CLI aspect to install and manage PHP versions can become a bit overwhelming. With PHP Monitor by Nico Verbruggen that task becomes easier to handle. Lightweight, native Mac menu bar app that interacts with Laravel Valet. Helps you manage multiple PHP installations, locate config …
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This summer Oskar Stålberg released his game Townscaper (see video above). Build quaint island towns with curvy streets, small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts. Build the town your dreams, block by block. No goal. No real gameplay. Just plenty of building and plenty of beauty. That’s it. Yesterday he surprised …
Tim Broddin — ubernerd and also my tech colleague at VRT Creative Lab — released a very nice Houdini Paint Worklet that draws some smooth blobs. .css-houdini-blobs { –num-blobs: 40; –seed: 4749; –colors: #71a7ee, #7940c1, #f0e891; –min-opacity: 0.1; –max-opacity: 0.5; background: paint(blobs); } Glad to see Tim used css-houdini-circles as a starting point to work …
Adam Argyle released a new project named Open Props. Similar to the aforementioned Pollen, it’s a library that offers nothing but CSS Custom Properties. Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript. Once included, you can use the Custom Properties the …
Ever wanted to know Mozilla’s stance on a certain specification? They have a one-pager for that: This page tracks Mozilla’s positions on open Web and Web-related specifications submitted to standards bodies like the IETF, W3C, and Ecma TC39. Please remember, this isn’t a commitment to implement or participate; it’s just what we think right now. …
Florian Schulz explores a way to define a web component entirely via markup. For me, HTML is sort of a component format. So far we’ve used it to define everything that is required for a website to work. But because components are just smaller versions of that, HTML may be a capable format for authoring …
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Over at CSS-Tricks you can read a min-bending article by Temani Afif Since the introduction of media queries (literally decades ago), CSS has evolved to the points that there are a lot of tricks that can help us drastically reduce the usage of media queries we use. In some cases, I will show you how …
Thomas Steiner has released a tool named SVGcode. It’s a PWA to convert raster images to SVG vector graphics. SVGcode is a Progressive Web App that lets you convert raster images like JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, etc. to vector graphics in SVG format. It uses the File System Access API, the Async Clipboard API, …
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Interesting take by the folks at nystudio107: instead of installing things such as node locally, why not run it in a container with an alias linked to it? Instead of installing all of the tools & packages you’re used to using, we use Docker images that someone else has created that contain these tools & …
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The past few weeks/months Steve Ruiz has been teasing a lot of the work he has been doing on tldraw, an app to draw diagrams. never too late for a second pass on the UI — Steve Ruiz (@steveruizok) November 2, 2021 About two weeks ago he released it, and also made the source code …