A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
<ol>‘s start and reversed attributes (and more)
#HTML tip for today: <ol> element has `start` and `reversed` attributes! Some examples where it's useful:`start` → paginated results`reversed` → "top 10 best … " lists pic.twitter.com/vkh88h2zGV — Tomek Sułkowski (@sulco) March 20, 2020 Handy for those end-of-year lists 😉 ~ Apart from overriding the list style using CSS’s list-style-type (which you should set it …
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Nadieh Bremer walks us through the visualization she made for Physics Today, celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30-year anniversary. A sky map of the Hubble Space Telescope’s observations →
Mattias recently tweeted that his website can now be served over HTTP/3 “even though no browser supports it yet”. While it’s true that no browser supports it out of the box right now, there are options to enable HTTP/3. Here’s how. 🧪 As with all experimental technolgy/features: things might break! Be warned! ~ Google Chrome …
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If you ever want to create a Chrome Extension, this repo might come in handy: A basic foundation boilerplate for rich Chrome Extensions using Webpack to help you write modular and modern Javascript code, load CSS easily and automatic reload the browser on code changes. Chrome Extension Webpack Boilerplate →
Ahmad Shadeed dove into the new Facebook design and noted his findings. I am a curious person who is always interested in opening up the browser DevTools to see how things were made on a website. This is the first time that I blog about something like this. I found some interesting uses of different …
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In ECMAScript 2015, default function parameters were introduced to the JavaScript language. These allow developers to initialize a function with default values if the arguments are not supplied to the function call. Initializing function parameters in this way will make your functions easier to read and less error-prone, and will provide default behavior for your …
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Johan from Mono: We have been designing a lot of enterprise software, which comes with its own set of challenges. In this blog post we captured some of the lessons we learned while creating the types of interfaces that are meant for daily, high-productivity use. Adjust your scaling Be wary of the application and module …
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Lydia Hallie has done some amazing work and created visualisations for the Merge, Rebase, Reset, Revert, Cherry-Pick, Fetch, Pull, and Reflog Git commands. Embedded below is a rebase example: Wish I had these when I started out with Git 😅 CS Visualized: Useful Git Commands →
Amazing rundown by Ryan Pickren on how he gained unauthorized Camera access on iOS and macOS. We started on a normal HTTP website and ended up on a bastardized blob URI in a Secure Context. Here is a quick summary of how we did it: Open evil HTTP website HTTP website becomes a data: URI …
Nice little demo by Josh W. Comeau in which he uses clip-path to create a folded corner. It even animates on hover 🙂