A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Recently built a demo that demonstrated a specific animation. Only problem: if you missed it, you had no way of restarting it. Instead of forcing the visitor to reload the page, this little JavaScript-snippet – attached to a button click – did the trick: const restartAnimations = ($el) => { $el.getAnimations().forEach((anim) => { anim.cancel(); anim.play(); …
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Because I keep forgetting this, an entry on the blog so that my future self can find it back easily: CSS: Want your first 5 list items to be bold? li:nth-of-type(-n + 5) {font-weight: bold;} Start with the # of list items you want to impact, then increment backward with -n. — Estelle Weyl (@estellevw) …
Like Carbon or Ray, but the output is an animated GIF. Beware though: the generated GIFs are HUUUUUGE. The embedded animation above originally was a 14MB GIF. Converted to an MP4, it’s only 163kB. Recoded →Recoded Source (GitHub) → Via Joan Léon
The past few months Rodrigo Pombo has been working on Code Hike, a new way to write code walkthroughs for blogs or docs. Recently he shared this preview of the step scroller (“scrollycoding”) component. Looks great! Scrollycoding Demo →
sudo using Touch ID
Turns out it’s possible to authenticate with sudo using Touch ID, as per this (old) tweet by Cabel: Pro MacBook Pro Tip: have a Touch Bar with Touch ID? If you edit /etc/pam.d/sudo and add the following line to the top… auth sufficient pam_tid.so …you can now use your fingerprint to sudo! — Cabel (@cabel) …
These lines aren’t injected using ::after or the like, but are done via backgrounds. The key CSS property you’re looking for is display: inline; though, as set on the p elements; without it, it won’t work. That last swipe effect also uses box-decoration-break clone; so that each line animates in parallel.
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