A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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 →
.htaccess disable access to site during Maintenance Mode / Deployment
Because I have to look this up from time to time, a note to myself: Add the contents below to your .htaccess to have Apache respond with a “Temporarily Unavailable” message in case a .maintenance file exists. — Handy during deploys RewriteEngine On # Show “Temporarily Unavailable” page if there’s a .maintenance file present RewriteCond …
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.htaccess trim www. prefix from domain name Because I have to look this up from time to time, a note to myself: Add the contents below to your .htaccess to have Apache trim the www. prefix from URLs while preserving the rest of the URL (domain name, querystring, etc). RewriteEngine On # Trim www prefix RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} …
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.htaccess enforce HTTPS Because I have to look this up from time to time, a note to myself: Add the contents below to your .htaccess to have Apache enforce HTTPS while preserving the rest of the URL (domain name, querystring, etc). RewriteEngine On # Enforce HTTPS (everywhere) RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] ~
Sparked by Pete LePage’s work on talking to a Elgato Stream Deck device from within the browser, I wanted to play with WebHID myself. First thing that came to my mind was to create a DrumPad. What first started out as a simple/classic DrumPad … 🔥 Have been playing with the #WebHID API tonight, connecting …
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