A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Nice work by Addy Osmani: Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. This repository has recipes for automating Web Performance measurement with Puppeteer. Automating Web Performance testing with Puppeteer →
min(), max(), clamp() in CSS
Ahmad takes a look into the CSS min(), max(), and clamp() functions. As with all his articles, he also provides some practical use cases and examples. Regarding the clamping of the font-size of a page, you don’t really need clamp(): This is how to accessibly set a viewport relative scaling `font-size` with a min AND …
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Tim MacDonald shares a way to sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across your projects. It involves in setting up on repo/package that contains the rules and a little helper class that takes in a PhpCsFixer\Finder instance (along with optional extra rules). <?php namespace TiMacDonald; use PhpCsFixer\Config; use PhpCsFixer\Finder; function styles(Finder $finder, array $rules = []): Config { …
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100vh in Safari on iOS
Update 2021.07.08: There are new viewport units on the way that will finally solve this issue. 100dvh is the one you’re looking for. When working with Viewport Units there’s this longstanding and extremely annoying bug in Safari on iOS where it does not play nice with the vh unit. Setting a container to 100vh for …
Web Vitals is a new great set of articles on Web.dev (by Google) focussing on delivering a great user experience on the web. To help developers focus on what matters most, they’ve selected a set of metrics which they call “Core Web Vitals”. The metrics that make up Core Web Vitals will evolve over time. …
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1loc is a site packed with small JavaScript snippets that take up 1 line of code. For example: Compare Two Dates const compare = (a, b) => a.getTime() > b.getTime(); Generate Number in Range const random = (min, max) => Math.floor(Math.random() * (max – min + 1)) + min; Get all siblings of an element …
If you’re trying to learn Docker you will first have to master its various terminal commands. This guide aims to help you get started with basic docker commands. Handy cheat sheet if you’re just starting out with Docker. 25 Basic Docker Commands for Beginners → Via cron.weekly
New book on TypeScript by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, who also wrote Exploring ES6 (and a few other books on JavaScript). This book consists of two parts: Part 1 is a quick start for TypeScript that teaches you the essentials quickly. Part 2 digs deeper into the language and covers many important topics in detail. This …
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UPDATE 2020.10.22: Masonry Layout founds its home in the CSS Grid Module Level 3 Draft Spec! A long requested CSS feature is to be able to create a “Masonry Layout” using pure CSS. Today we can already create a Masonry-like layout using grid-auto-flow: dense;, but unfortunately that’s not the real deal. 🤔 Masonry Layout? Masonry …
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Fun pen by Jakob Eriksen in which he combines Emoji and CSS Custom Properties to create an Emoji Customizer. The reason that this works is because of the fact that emoji can have modifiers. Skin Tone and Hair, as used in the demo above, are such modifiers. Using the ZWJ (“\u200d”) you can glue all …
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