A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
A talk by Pierrick Calvez. I especially like the part on the hyphen vs. en dash vs. em dash — the latter being a symbol which I use quite a lot — and the mentioning of keming 🙂 A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography →
git log using PHP
obs-websocket
If you’re using OBS Studio for your streaming needs, obs-websocket might come in handy: ot’s a WebSocket Server that allows you to remotely control OBS. Once installed and activated you can then use something like obs-tablet-remote as a GUI for it. obs-websocket WebSockets API for OBS Studio →OBS Tablet Remote → Via Patrick 💡 If …
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Nils Binder noticed that Gradient Angles in Sketch, Figma, and CSS don’t behave exactly the same. To dig deeper into the subject he built this wonderful Pen that visualizes how gradient angles in CSS behave: The pen visualizes linear-gradient(var(–angle), #f09, #3023AE, #0ff). Very nice!
Alex Trost at Frontend Horse: One style I’ve been loving is the 3D work that Ricardo Oliva Alonso creates on CodePen. It’s a style that looks like it was drawn in Adobe Illustrator or modeled with Three.js. Ricardo will often find a piece on Dribbble and recreate it on CodePen, styling it entirely with HTML …
If you’re looking for a quick rundown of the aforementioned AlpineJS, here’s a talk by AlpineJS’s author Caleb Porzio which he presented at JSNation:
leading-trim – The Future of Digital Typesetting
Ethan Wang, who works at Microsoft: In a standard text box, there’s almost always extra space above and below the actual text. Because of this, when you use a text box to measure and implement spacing, it ends up larger than you intended. The bigger the line height, the bigger the problem. You can see …
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David Shayer, who was an iPod Software Engineer – the 2nd one they hired for the iPod project when it started in 2001 – back in the day: It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod …
In my post on Flexbox Gap I wanted to feature detect support for it using @supports. That however failed. As I then noted: In the demo above I wanted to show a warning in browsers that don’t support flexbox gap. For that I tried using @supports, which has proven to be successful before. .warning { …
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Hidde recently gave a talk at CSS Café on the origins of CSS: It’s been 25 years since the first people proposed a language to style the web. Since the late nineties, CSS lived through years of platform evolution. The cascade, specificity and the enormous choice in values and units set the language up for …
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