A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Speaking of VPN connections: to easily manage and connect to (Open)VPN connections I use Viscosity. A first class OpenVPN client for Mac and Windows that lets you secure your network with ease & style. You can either manually configure your connections, or simply drop your .ovpn config files onto it. The app sits neatly out …
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In a project we at vBridge are working on, we rely on a Virtual Private Network to link our connected devices, certain servers, and our webapp together. I had an issue where a specific server in the 10.55/24 range was nog being reachable. While debugging the issue — going deeper into the rabbit hole called …
New in Chromium 85 is support for the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), which is pretty impressive: AVIF offers significant file size reduction for images compared with JPEG or WebP; ~50% savings compared to JPEG, and ~20% savings compared to WebP. 🦊 Using Firefox and can’t wait to use AVIF images? Set the image.avif.enabled flag …
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aria-label and aria-labelledby
Léonie Watson (@LeonieWatson) explains the difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby: The aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes are both used to give an element it’s accessible name. The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby is where they get that piece of text, and the clue is in the name. The aria-label attribute gives an element its label; an …
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If you’re unfamiliar with some of the CSS terms like Selector, Attribute Selector, Expression, Declaration, etc. then CSS Vocabulary will come in handy. It’s a page containing a CSS code snippet. You can click on each part of the code (or in the sidebar) to see which part is what. CSS Vocabulary →
Have a static site but looking to add backendy stuff — such as subscribing to a newsletter — to it? Geoffrey Dhuyvetters from madewithlove walks us trough setting up a serverless function with Vercel (formerly known as Zeit): In this article I’ll walk you through the steps to create serverless functions with Vercel. These functions …
At Google Cloud Next ’20, Cloud Run Product Manager Steren Giannini (@steren) walked us through some of the new things that are coming to Google Cloud Run. Some highlights: VPC Peering Gradual Rollouts (with custom URLs per tagged release) New Load-Balancing Features (Multi Region, Cloud CDN, IAP) Easy Continuous Deployment Min instances (no cold starts) …
Back in June I was invited to speak at JSConf.be. This year’s edition focused on DevSecOps and Security. My talk “Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run” — which I have brought forward before at Full Stack Ghent and PHP-WVL — was a perfect match for it. Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform by …
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One of the features of the Web Share API is that it allows you to share files along with your share intent: if (navigator.canShare && navigator.canShare({ files: filesArray })) { navigator.share({ files: filesArray, title: 'Vacation Pictures', text: 'Photos from September 27 to October 14.', }) .then(() => console.log('Share was successful.')) .catch((error) => console.log('Sharing failed', error)); …
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