A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
In this brilliant article, Ahmad Shadeed shares a long list of defensive CSS techniques to avoid possible issues Defensive CSS is a collection of snippets that can help you in writing CSS that is protected. In other words, you will have fewer issues in the future. Think of things such as not using fixed values …
Welcome to our library of original guides to the world of typography, which the Google Fonts team is producing in collaboration with typographic experts from around the world. Google Fonts Knowledge enables designers and developers of all skill sets to choose and use type with purpose. Knowing that Eliott Jay Stocks helped work on this, …
As part of Designcember, Rachel Andrew is doing a round of interviews with “people who are doing interesting things in the community with CSS”. I was taken by surprise when Rachel mailed me some time ago, asking if she could ask me a few questions. The result is a Community Highlight on the web.dev website. …
ohmyfetch is a better fetch API. Works on node, browser and workers. import { $fetch } from ‘ohmyfetch’ Import it and use it as you’d use regular fetch. On top of that, you can use some of the extra convenience methods and options — such as easy response parsing, JSON body, Auto Retry, … — …
In this episode of HTTP 203, Jake and Surma talk about easing in CSS. You can ease-in, you can ease-out, but CSS doesn’t let you bounce. Jake and Surma chat about a proposal to fix that. After first going down the rabbit hole of creating a (now-abandoned) proposal to define custom easing functions, Jake went …
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What happens when you set !important on a Custom Property? It’s not exactly what you think …
Learn how to build Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with this free course, authored by Maximiliano Firtman, on web.dev. You’ll learn PWA fundamentals like the Web App Manifest, Service Workers, how to design with an app in mind, what’s different from a classic web app, how to use other tools to test and debug your PWA. …
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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 …