A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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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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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A clear, beautiful and easy to implement focus-state solution that improves accessibility and usability. This reminds me of the app-wide Focus Ring the folks over at Discord implemented, but with an animated ring that moves across the screen. Floating Focus → Via CSS-Tricks
Cool demo that uses clip-path: path(…);, a feature that recently shipped with Chromium, making it supported in all three major rendering engines. See the Pen About Us Pop-Out Effect by Mikael Ainalem (@ainalem) on CodePen. Peeking under the hood – using the SVG Path Visualizer — you can see that it’s the .container-inner that is …
Enter an SVG path data (the string inside the d attribute) to visualize it and discover all its different commands Handy tool! And the cool part is you get shareable URLs along with it 🙂 SVG Path Visualizer →
Update on the aformentioned Tackling TypeScript — book on TypeScript by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer: the entire book (except for two bonus chapters) can now be read freely online. Tackling TypeScript: Upgrading from JavaScript →