A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
mix-blend-mode not working? Set a background-color!
💡 If you find your CSS mix-blend-mode not working as expected (on a white background), you need to explicitly set a background-color on the underlying element. The easiest way to do so is to apply background-color: white; on the html and body elements. html, body { background-color: #fff; } ~ Demos + Explanation Without a …
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SqUID consists of a synchronized autonomous robotic fleet that has 3-dimensional movement capabilities, allowing a fully flexible operation. A high-end embedded control system and smart real-time data analysis allow BionicHIVE’s algorithmic engine to dynamically learn problems created in one warehouse and apply resolutions to all warehouses in the network. Cool. BionicHIVE →
The folks over at Spatie have released a new tool called Ray that helps you with debugging. Ray is a beautiful, lightweight desktop app that helps you debug your app. After installing one of the libraries to send information to Ray, you can use the ray() function to quickly dump stuff. Any variable(s) that you …
The Progressive Web App term is now five years old, and it’s time to sit down and understand where we are at 2021 within the platform, what has changed during 2020 and what we are expecting for the upcoming months. It shouldn’t surprise you while reading that iOS is the bottleneck here … Progressive Web …
multiple attribute
If you set the multiple attribute on an input[type=”email”] you can have it accept several email addresses. Easy.
Following up on last year’s 2019 edition the results for the State of JS are in. 23,765 people answered the survey resulting in an overview of what’s hot and not for JavaScript and its ecosystem. It’s great to see that language features like Destructuring, Nullish Coalescing and Optional Chaining seem to be common nowadays. However, …
I can’t seem to find any mention of this in the Media Queries Module specification, but apparently it’s allowed to nest media queries, as shared by Šime Vidas: Apparently, nested media queries are a thing https://t.co/2L2pEWy2JW — Šime Vidas (@simevidas) January 10, 2021 That’s … awesome! 🤯 Fiddling with it a bit more, turns out this …
A trick you can use to make text better stand out against a background image, is to use a color overlay with a certain opacity on top of the image. This tool by Yaphi calculates the ideal opacity to use, so that the contrast meets the WCAG standards.
You can use dive to help you optimize your Docker image layers. Say you have these two layers in your Dockerfile: RUN wget http://xcal1.vodafone.co.uk/10MB.zip -P /tmp RUN rm /tmp/10MB.zip Then you’ll end up with 10MB of wasted space. dive will tell you, so that you can combine these into one optimized layer: RUN wget http://xcal1.vodafone.co.uk/10MB.zip …
Ahmad Shadeed sweats the details to recreating the little component above, as found in Facebook’s Messenger. In this article, I will show you a component that looks simple from the first glance, but there is a ton of work behind it. As you can derive from the article’s length: the devil is in the details. …