A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Michael Scharnagl: I am currently building a book section for this site and thought it would be cool to show the books in 3D and also to make it visible how many pages a book has. In this article I would like to show you how to use CSS custom properties to adapt the thickness …
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With the January meeting of TC39 behind us, the Stage-4 features that will make it into ES2021 have been selected. The following features will be part of ES2021, which will be formalised mid-2021: String.prototype.replaceAll Promise.any WeakRefs + FinalizationRegistry Logical Assignment Operators Numeric Separators Apart from the linked-to posts above, Pawel Grzybek has done a writeup …
Simon Hearne, who has been keeping a closer eye on unexpected layout shifts ever since Core Web Vitals came into play: One common cause of layout shift is surprisingly difficult to resolve though: flashes of unstyled text (FOUT). In this post we will explore the surprisingly complex world of text rendering on the web and …
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Solid list of tips by the folks over at Snyk: By the time you’re at number 8 your mind may have dwelled, but don’t skip out on that step though! It not only allows you to build smaller images but also prevents you from having unnecessary files (read: security risks) left inside your container. Basically …
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Ana Tudor recently shared a trick on how to make an image partially greyscale: #tinyCSStip Would you like to apply `filter: grayscale(1)`, but only partly, not everywhere? You can emulate that with blend modes. background: url(cat) 50%/ cover, linear-gradient(-45deg, transparent 50%, grey 0);background-blend-mode: luminosity Many variations possible. — Ana Tudor 🐯 (@anatudor) January 20, 2021 …
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Solid advice by Jake: Here’s an old pattern that seems to be making a comeback: import { toReadableNumber } from ‘some-library’; const readableNumbers = someNumbers.map(toReadableNumber); Here’s the problem: // We think of: const readableNumbers = someNumbers.map(toReadableNumber); // …as being like: const readableNumbers = someNumbers.map((n) => toReadableNumber(n)); // …but it’s more like: const readableNumbers = someNumbers.map((item, …
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Alex Kondov, Tech Lead at Financial Times, has compiled a huge list of best practices when it comes to writing React. This article is a collection of principles and rules that have proven to be effective for me and the teams I’ve worked with. I outline good practices about components, application structure, testing, styling, state …
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The folks over at Formidable have been experimenting with Houdini and WebGL/Three.js to create futuristic UIs Futuristic sci-fi UIs in movies often support a story where humans, computers, and interfaces are far more advanced than today, often mixed with things like super powers, warp drives, and holograms. What is it about these UIs that feel …
Recently, Stephanie Eckles sent out a call to revive the use of CSS border-image. Not to use it with images — which requires a pretty nasty syntax — but to create Gradient Borders in CSS. 🎉 Time to revive an old CSS property! When `border-image` was announced, I was off-put b/c the syntax was so …
