A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
In this session from Google I/O 2021, Una Kravets talks about “the new responsive”, short for being responsive to the user, container, and form-factor (text-version available via link below): The web community is entering into a new era of responsive design and shifting our perspectives on what it means. With user preference queries, container queries, …
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font shorthand
Mateusz Hadryś dissects the font shorthand The font shorthand allows you to set almost all font-related properties with a single line of CSS. Full Text Styling With a Single Line of CSS →
react-native-clean-project
I used to drag a little shell script around between each React Native project that cleaned out various cache directories (Watchman Cache, Bundler Cache, Build Artifacts, Yarn Cache, etc.) for me. A better alternative is the react-native-clean-project you can use. Cleans your React Native project by purging caches and modules, and reinstalling them again. Installation …
Directly from the spec, the 5 Rules of ARIA: If you can use a native HTML element or attribute with the semantics and behavior you require already built in […] then do so. Do not change native semantics, unless you really have to. All interactive ARIA controls must be usable with the keyboard. Do not …
Now this is a good use of deepfake: correct the mouth and jaw movements of actors in dubbed video to match the new language track. The result is a (nearly) seamless lip-synced experience. TrueSync is the first AI offering from our neural network film lab. Filmmakers and content owners are now able to visually translate …
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At the excellent Web Directions Hover ’21, Adam Argyle opened with a rad presentation covering all what’s new and upcoming for CSS. From risky and may never be in your browser, to stable and just released yesterday; follow Adam as he strolls through proposals, specs and supporting tools for all the this new CSS hotness. …
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 →