A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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 …
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.