A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Today we are painting a girl taking a selfie, with mathematics. I like how the author, a few minutes into the video, says … none of which is too complicated to be honest … while I’m hardly understanding any of the things that he’s explaining 🥵 You can play with the result over at Shadertoy.
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In “CSS Box Sizing Module Level 4” a new aspect-ratio CSS property is defined. Let’s take a look on how to use it …
I was delighted to read that CodePen now has built-in support for Skypack. This is a huge step forward to working with packages on CodePen. Great addition to the product! But what exactly is Skypack? Well, it’s the successor to the aforementioned Pika CDN with some extra juice: Skypack not only serves packages that export …
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The journey of the folks over at Laracasts on how they stopped spam (for now) on their forums. Keyword Censoring Email Confirmation Language Detection Throttling Honeypots reCAPTCHA Comes with (Laravel) code snippets to go along with that. The 6 Stages of Spam Protection → Yes, that dreaded reCAPTCHA. Hate it all you want, but it …
The folks over at Spatie are at it again, this time with Front Line PHP. An ebook on cutting edge tactics in PHP 8, accompanied by videos and practical examples. The videos covering the new additions to PHP 8 are free to watch, and should give you an idea of what you can expect. At …
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Earlier this week WPGraphQL 1.0 got released. It adds a GraphQL server to WordPress. WPGraphQL →WPGraphQL Docs →
Very nice video by Sam Selikoff in which he sets up a web manifest to make his site feel more app-like. Great production quality. There are some tweaks I’d suggest though: Fixate the header using position: sticky; instead of position: fixed;. No need for that extra margin on the content then. Update: See note below …
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Handy Single Serving Site to keep track whether certain apps run on the Apple silicon M1 or not. Is Apple Silicon Ready? →
“Your grades have been stored on our department server and will be submitted tomorrow” — Brilliant! 😅 XKCD #2385: Final Exams →
dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON. With it supporting JSON (using the –json flag) you can easily pipe its output through the power tool jq dog, the command-line DNS client →