A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
On Twitter, John Allsopp recently shared that Flexbox is the greatest thing that happed to CSS. I quickly chimed in with my personal favourite. To me the single greatest addition to CSS over the past 20 years is Custom Properties. They’ve opened up a ton of possibilities, and make us CSS Authors way more productive. …
Here’s a demo of a rendering engine I’ve been working on that allows for non-euclidean worlds. What kind of sorcery is this?! 🤯 I do wonder what would happen when multiple players are walking around simultaneously, and how objects that pass through the tunnels would behave. NonEuclidean (GitHub) → Related: How were the portals in …
Matthias Ott: In this post, I will share my current take on CSS structure. It does not religiously follow any particular methodology, although people familiar with Harry Roberts’ ITCSS (“Inverted Triangle CSS”) will definitely recognize parts of his methodology. The folder structure indeed looks very familiar: /scss/ ├── 1-settings ├── 2-design-tokens ├── 3-tools ├── 4-generic …
Azim Ahmed comes with a few practical code snippets to alter the React Native Developer Menu from within your code, via the DevSettings Module: Toggle why-did-you-render Perform an action on the current route import {DevSettings} from 'react-native'; import React, {useEffect, useState} from 'react'; if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') { const whyDidYouRender = require('@welldone-software/why-did-you-render'); whyDidYouRender(React, {trackAllPureComponents: false}); …
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Earlier this year Dave Rupert spoke at An Event Apart’s Spring Summit with a talk on Web Components: It’s the year 2021. Lots of us are building our websites and apps with components and design systems, perhaps leveraging a JavaScript framework to help glue all the pieces together. The web has matured in the last …
If you’re goofing around with docker-compose, then be sure to give Lando a try: Lando is a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology. Designed to work with most major languages, frameworks and services, Lando provides an easy way for developers of all skill levels to specify …
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Steve Ruiz recently noted that in many design tools a group of shapes would end up at a different position after you rotate them and then successively rotate them back. The problem here is that the average center of the group — the point on which the group rotates — changes after the first rotation. …
Kent C. Dodds recently launched his new site, built with Remix (which soon will go open source). In this post he lifts the hood and explains the technical details. I especially like how his build process is split into two parts: Updating the content Building the source That way he doesn’t waste precious CPU cycles …
Stefan Judis has reworked Ahmad Shadeed‘s Conditional border-radius, using these three (future) CSS additions: Media query ranges Container Queries CSS @when + @else Unlike the original code, the result definitely is a very nice and readable piece of code that doesn’t feel hacky at all — I like where CSS is headed 😊 Conditional border-radius …
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From the Polymer team: Tachometer is a tool for running benchmarks in web browsers. It uses repeated sampling and statistics to reliably identify even tiny differences in runtime. To compare two files, run it like so: npx tachometer variant1.html variant2.html Tachometer will open Chrome and load each HTML file, measuring the time between bench.start() and …
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