We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
10 Next.js Tips You Might Not Know!
Next.js can do a lot for you — which means there’s features you probably haven’t used! This video covers ten tips you might not know about Next.js.
Litepicker Date Range Picker
I like that the daterange needs to be entered in one single input, and that the rendered datepicker is used as a progressive enhancement on top. Installation per NPM: npm i litepicker At its core, usage is really simple: import Litepicker from ‘litepicker’; const picker = new Litepicker({ element: document.getElementById(‘litepicker’) }); Highly configurable too! Litepicker …
Kali Linux + Mr. Robot ARG Society
Throughout the (excellent!) television show Mr. Robot the Kali Linux distribution is used. Turns out the makers were also involved in the “Alternative Reality Game” that lived outside the show. To solve the Post-Season 4 ARG, a key part was to be extracted from one of their repos: The idea was, we would do a …
Monochrome Image Dithering Explained
Surma digging into the oldskool dithering technique: I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostaliga and none of Lena. Turns out there’s quite a lot to it 😅 Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about …
My stack will outlive yours
Steren (who happens to be PM for the wonderful Cloud Run): My stack requires no maintenance, has perfect Lighthouse scores, will never have any security vulnerability, is based on open standards, is portable, has an instant dev loop, has no build step and… will outlive any other stack. It’s not LAMP, WordPress, Rails, MEAN, Jamstack… …
Options for styling Web Components
Nolan Lawson, author of emoji-picker-element, a web component you can use to provide an emoji-picker: What wasn’t obvious to me, though, was how to allow users to style it. What if they wanted a different background color? What if they wanted the emoji to be bigger? What if they wanted a different font for the …
How we built the GitHub globe
The GitHub homepage features a very nice rotating 3D globe, augmented with realtime data shooting around. Here’s how they built it: At the most fundamental level, the globe runs in a WebGL context powered by three.js. We feed it data of recent pull requests that have been created and merged around the world through a …
Using Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Controllers on the Web with the WebHID API
Thomas Steiner: WebHID allows websites to access devices that use the human interface devices (HID) protocol via JavaScript. Here is a little Christmas present 🎄 to the community to celebrate the API approval: releasing Joy-Con WebHID, a WebHID “driver” for Nintendo Joy-Con controllers so you can use them in the browser. If you have Joy-Cons, …
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Writable Getters
Lea Verou: A pattern that has come up a few times in my code is the following: an object has a property which defaults to an expression based on its other properties unless it’s explicitly set, in which case it functions like a normal property. Essentially, the expression functions as a default value. Think of …