A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
I like this demo. Very pleasing on the eyes. To easily create WebGL demos the author created a little library called RGBA.js which is used under the hood. Focusing on hiding WebGL/JavaScript code from you and giving ability to write fragment shader code only Once included, this is the only code one has to write: …
Interesting post over at the Flare blog, where they had to delete over 900 million records from a MySQL table. They couldn’t simply run a DELETE FROM table query, as that would lock it: When a deletion query using a WHERE clause starts, it will lock that table. All other queries that are run against …
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There was this interesting Twitter conversation last week between Chris Coyier and Schepp last week. Apparently if you have Smooth Scrolling enabled, it also affects the behavior of Find in Page in Chrome: Whenever you want to go to the next result it will smooth scroll, instead of jump to it. Anecdotal thing: when I …
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Speaking of meta tags in the previous post, the Meta Tags tool has been sitting in my bookmarks for quite a while now: With Meta Tags you can edit and experiment with your content then preview how your webpage will look on Google, Facebook, Twitter and more! Drop in an image, type some text, and …
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Interesting read how Greg Wilson built ChessMsgs.com, a website that can track chess games played by sending links to eachother. Instead of tweeting moves back and forth, players tweet links back and forth, and those links go to a site that renders the current chessboard, allows a new move, and creates a new link to …
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Play through all the major events of 2020: the Australia wildfires, Covid-19, the stock market crash, quarantine, the rise of TikTok, the USA elections, etc. Nicely made little 2D game 🙂 2020 Game →
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 …