A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
For my local PHP Development needs I use Laravel Valet. It’s easy to set up, provides HTTPS, and just works. The only downside of using it, is the fact that the selected PHP version is system-wide: switching PHP versions — using valet use php@7.4 for example — affects all sites. With the 3.0 release of …
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Pawel Grzybek gives us a good overview of the ES2022 features The ECMAScript 2022 Language Specification candidate is now available. Even though the final version will be approved in June, the list of new features coming to the language this year is already defined. Let’s look at what’s coming to ECMAScript specification in 2022. What’s …
@bramus/specificity v2
Back in February I created @bramus/specificity, an NPM package to calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors. As that version was more of a thought experiment/POC, there was a lot of room for improvement. Yesterday, after 11 betas, version 2.0.0 of @bramus/specificity was released. Let’s take a look … Quick Example To give you an idea …
Laravel Zero is a lightweight and modular micro-framework for developing fast and powerful console applications. Built on top of the Laravel components. Think of it as a stripped down Laravel, without the public folder. Recently used it to create a Command that runs in Docker Container upon boot and then exits. Instead of using Laravel’s …
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Harry Roberts takes a look at some more technical and non-obvious aspects of optimising Largest Contentful Paint: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is my favourite Core Web Vital. It’s the easiest to optimise, and it’s the only one of the three that works the exact same in the lab as it does in the field (don’t …
WASD Controls on the Web: Don’t use KeyboardEvent.key but use KeyboardEvent.code
Beware when evaluating KeyboardEvent.key, as it doesn’t play nice with non-QWERTY keyboard layouts.
Jamir is an impressive in-browser 3D First Person Shooter game written with ThreeJS and Erlang. Very nice work by Mert Ozturk! Reading the about page, it took them more than 3 years to build it. Now that’s dedication! Jamir →About Jamir →
In this CSS Café talk, Josh W. Comeau digs into several Layout Modes and a few common misunderstandings about CSS (such as Stacking Contexts) Also see the Understanding Layout Algorithms post Josh recently published.
Over at Smashing Magazine, Louis Lazaris covers a few of the lesser known HTML attributes: The enterkeyhint Attribute For Virtual Keyboards The title Attribute On Stylesheets The cite Attribute For The <blockquote> And <q> Elements Attributes For Custom Ordered Lists The download Attribute For The <a> Element The decoding Attribute For The <img> Element The …
Like Carbon or Ray, but the output is an animated GIF. Beware though: the generated GIFs are HUUUUUGE. The embedded animation above originally was a 14MB GIF. Converted to an MP4, it’s only 163kB. Recoded →Recoded Source (GitHub) → Via Joan Léon