A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
This tweet by Niels Leenheer on his relationship with Apple hit more than close to home: My complex relationship with Apple: 1️⃣ As a customer I love their products. 2️⃣ As a developer I love their platform and hate their policies. 3️⃣ As a consumer I think they are greedy and hurting competition. 4️⃣ As …
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Christoph Nakazawa, former Engineering Management at Facebook and now Front End Engineer at Stripe, is writing a series about JavaScript infrastructure. In this second part of this still in progress series he digs into eliminating the ongoing need for installing dependencies from the development iteration cycle. I provide recommendations that I personally implemented and have …
For all your working-with-layers-on-<canvas> needs: Konva is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that enables high performance animations, transitions, node nesting, layering, filtering, caching, event handling for desktop and mobile applications, and much more. You can draw things onto the stage, add event listeners to them, move them, scale them, and rotate them independently from other …
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If it’s been a while since you’ve written JavaScript, this page holds a good summary of many of the language features that landed the past few years. Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years →
During Google I/O, Learn CSS! — An evergreen CSS course and reference to level up your web styling expertise — was launched. Broken down in 23 chapters, you’ll learn the fundamentals of CSS. You’ll learn CSS fundamentals like the box model, cascade and specificity, flexbox, grid and z-index. And, along with these fundamentals, you’ll learn …
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That CSS Scroll-Snap highlighter sure is one very welcome addition! What’s New In DevTools (Chrome 91) →
parseInt() in JavaScript
Dmitri Pavlutin digs into why parseInt(0.0000005); evaluates to 5: parseInt(0.5); // => 0 parseInt(0.05); // => 0 parseInt(0.005); // => 0 parseInt(0.0005); // => 0 parseInt(0.00005); // => 0 parseInt(0.000005); // => 0 parseInt(0.0000005); // => 5 🤯 Solving a Mystery Behavior of parseInt() in JavaScript → On a related note, Yannick Clybouw recently hit …
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Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence recently launched the v1 beta of the aforementioned Remix. Through lots of live code, Ryan and Michael will tell you all about where Remix started, where it’s at now, and what this v1 Beta launch means for one of the most exciting web frameworks today. If you’re into React, be …
Building further upon a “wild story” by Corey Quinn, Nicholas Martin describes how to (ab)use DNS TXT records by storing data in them, as if it were a database: When you think about it, DNS configuration is actually a very rudimentary NoSQL database. You can view and modify it at any time quite easily through …
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Jake Archibald has published a nice series in which he has been been performance-testing all F1 sites. Not only does he dig into waterfall charts, he also points out a few simple things that could be applied in order to improve overall loading performance. As a bonus he also tested the Google I/O site, which …