A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Great work by Linmiao Xu: SSH tunnels are encrypted TCP connections between SSH clients and servers that allows traffic entering one side of the tunnel to transparently exit through the other. This page explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows. Also comes with the commands … handy! A …
@property and its Animating Powers
Over at CSS-Tricks Jhey Tompkins has written a solid piece on the amazing @property and the possibilities it opens: We can give the browser the information is needs to transition and animate those properties! Covered in the post, amongst many other interesting demos, are Jhey’s own Pure CSS Stopwatch and my own animated gradient border …
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Now this is a fun distraction: watch dashcam footage of a car driving around a city with the local radio on. Turn on Street Noise for that extra effect. Drive & Listen →
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Shipping in Chrome 89 are Import Maps, which allows control over what URLs get fetched when importing modules. Let’s take a look at this very welcome addition. When importing ES Modules (on the web), you need to refer to them using their full filenames or URLs: import moment from “/js/moment/moment.js”; import { partition } from …
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For as long as we’ve had language, some people have tried to control it. And some of the most frequent targets of this communication regulation are the ums, ers, and likes that pepper our conversations. These linguistic fillers occur roughly 2 to 3 times per minute in natural speech. So are ums and uhs just …
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Interesting read on how GTA Online player t0st got elbow deep into disassembling GTA Online to fix its poor loading times. After taking a minute to load the common resources used for both story and online modes (which is near on par with high-end PCs) GTA decides to max out a single core on my …
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State Partitioning is an interesting privacy feature shipping with Firefox 86. With State Partitioning, shared state such as cookies, localStorage, etc. will be partitioned (isolated) by the top-level website you’re visiting. In other words, every first party and its embedded third-party contexts will be put into a self-contained bucket. Applies to every embedded third-party resource …
Harry Roberts explains how to inspect pages from MobileSafari (on your iDevice) using the Safari (on your Mac) DevTools. It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but if I recall correctly you can — once set up — also debug pages in MobileSafari without needing a physical USB connection. It’ll run over Bluetooth. Measuring …
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Not that I’m a fan of Tailwind, but this (free) video course by the Tailwind folks themselves is a very good starting point to those wanting to get started with it. Today we’re excited to release Tailwind CSS: From Zero to Production, a new screencast series that teaches you everything you need to know to …