Checkboxland – Render anything as HTML checkboxes

Checkboxland is a JavaScript library for rendering anything as HTML checkboxes. You can use it to display animations, text, and arbitrary data. It also supports plugins, so you can build more powerful APIs on top of it. Heh. Can’t quite think of a reason when exactly to use this, but it’s fun nonetheless 😅 Checkboxland …

10 Modern Layouts in 1 Line of CSS

Already making rounds on Twitter last week, but now the video’s been released too: In this dynamic talk, Una goes over the power of modern CSS layout techniques by highlighting a few key terms and how much detail can be described in a single line of code. Learn a few layout tricks you can implement …

ESNext: Proposals to look forward to (ESNEXT Conf)

Happening right now is ESNEXT Conf a fully remote conference exploring the future of JavaScript and the web. When I saw the CFP float by, it sounded like a perfect match for my talk “ESNext: Proposals to look forward to”. Thankfully the organisers – Fred and Drew from Pika – also felt that ways and …

New in Chrome 84

Chrome 84 has been released, which contains some nice additions. Pete LePage walks us through: Chrome 84 is rolling out now! Users can start common tasks within your app with App Icon Shortcuts. The Web Animations API adds support for a slew of previously unsupported features. Wake Lock, and the Content Indexing API graduate from …

PHP: Convert a Geolocation (Latitude / Longitude Coordinates) to a Timezone identifier

Part of a PHP project I’m working contains a list of sites/buildings. For each site/building we monitor some data, for example its energy usage. We decided that we wanted to generate a daily/weekly/monthly reports of the data, by aggregating the datapoints. As our sites/buildings are spread across the globe – and thus timezones – we …

Song Exploder Episode 187: Apparat – Goodbye

This episode from Song Exploder gives us a good insight in how Goodbye by Apparat came to be. The Netflix original series Dark debuted in December 2017. It’s a really mysterious, mind-bending German science fiction show with a unique tone. A big part of that tone is announced every episode with the music in the …

The Sound of Silence

If you’re a regular reader of bram.us you might have noticed that I haven’t posted anything here during the past month. In short: I’ve been busy with many (personal) things that needed my attention. Here’s a few of the things that kept me from blogging … Public Speaking With COVID-19 many conferences have switched to …

JavaScript Yellow

Back in November I was invited to speak at Full Stack Europe 2019. At the conference I was scheduled to do a pre-conference workshop on React and a lightning talk named “JavaScript Yellow” — a talk I first presented at Frontend United back in 2018. Last week the video got released: References: javascript-yellow Robustness and …

How To Crash An Airplane

A talk by Nickolas Means, as recorded at Fronteers 2018 (which I attended). On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 was en route to Chicago when a mechanical failure caused the plane to become all but uncontrollable. In this unsurvivable situation, the flight crew saved more than half of those onboard. How did they …

Recoil – An Experimental State Management Library for React

Recoil is the State Management Library for React they use at Facebook. Recoil lets you create a data-flow graph that flows from atoms (shared state) through selectors (pure functions) and down into your React components. Atoms are units of state that components can subscribe to. Selectors transform this state either synchronously or asynchronously Best to …