A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Nice in-browser 3D-render of your GitHub History. You can download the result as a .stl file to run it through your 3D printer. Here’s my 2020 timeline for example: I take pride in the fact that my Saturdays (front row) and Sundays (back row) remain as good as empty, and that there’s an occasional gap …
Dzhavat ran into an interesting performance issue where practically his whole site would repaint when a transition in the header was triggered. The element being animated is a span wrapping some text placed inside an h1. The h1 itself is in the upper left corner on the page and contains my name. Initially, only the …
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z-index (and Stacking Contexts) in CSS
Ahmad Shadeed digs into z-index and covers a few scenarios that create new Stacking Contexts. Understanding Z-Index in CSS → What no one told you about z-index → MDN: Understanding z-index: The Stacking Context →
Collection of CSS snippets by Stephanie Eckles to create some common layouts. It’s good to see how Flexbox and Grid have changed our approach to layouting, as these examples used to require a truckload of markup and/or some nasty CSS hacks before 😅 SmolCSS →
Nice work by Chris Coyier: See the Pen Table with Sticky Header and Sticky First Column by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen. I tried this on a table before and would swear it didn’t work back then. Perhaps I did something wrong, because it’s quite tricky as Chris details: The “trick” at play here is …
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Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can he explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near it lid, show close ups of the double-seam that hold the lid on, and details the complex operation of the tab that …
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Remotion is a suite of libraries building a fundament for creating videos programmatically using React. Leverage web technologies: Use all of CSS, Canvas, SVG, WebGL, etc. Leverage programming: Use variables, functions, APIs, math and algorithms to create new effects Leverage React: Reusable components, Powerful composition, Fast Refresh, Package ecosystem Also comes with a handy player …
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::target-text pseudo-element
One of my favorite features that shipped with Chrome 80 — apart from Optional Chaining — is the ability to link to text-fragments. By default Chrome will highlight those in yellow: 💡 To easily create text-fragment links there’s this Chromium Plugin you can use. ~ As tweeted before, coming to Chromium 89 is the ability …
code-server — Run VS Code on any machine anywhere and access it in the browser
code-server allows you to run on any machine, preferably on a Cloud Server, and access it from anywhere. Yes, that means you can use VS Code on your iPad for example 😉 Once installed you’ll also need to set up authentication and the like. Alternatively you can run code-server –link and get a .cdr.co subdomain, …
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This tool — not endorsed nor affiliated with GitHub — lets you quickly load any GitHub repo in an online hosted Visual Studio Code environment. Just add 1s after github and press Enter in the browser address bar for any repository you want to read. Note that this is a *viewer* only, no editing. For …
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