A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Great writeup by Benjamin De Cock on the work he and his colleagues did to creating unique landing pages that tell a story for our major products For this release, we designed Connect’s landing page to reflect its intricate, cutting-edge capabilities while keeping things light and simple on the surface. In this blog post, we’ll …
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Hive, a UK based technology design studio, have shared their set of best practices for developing JavaScript-based projects. While developing a new project is like rolling on a green field for you, maintaining it is a potential dark twisted nightmare for someone else. Here’s a list of guidelines we’ve found, written and gathered that (we …
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D3 in Depth has dedicated a chapter to rendering geographic information. D3’s approach differs to so called raster methods such as Leaflet and Google Maps. Typically D3 requests vector geographic information in the form of GeoJSON and renders this to SVG or Canvas in the browser. D3 in Depth: Rendering Geographic Information →
Great usage of CSS Custom Properties in combination with calc() by Steve Gardner to cater for users who have prefers-reduced-motion set to reduce: CSS variables (custom properties) makes supporting reduced motion settings super easy. There is little excuse to not too. — Steve Gardner (@steveg3003) July 21, 2017 By setting –duration to 0 it basically …
Stephanie Liu has replicated the native Slack theming capabilities in the browser using CSS Variables CSS Custom Properties. The essence of the demo is actually quite simple: define the variables on the :root level, and use ‘m where needed. :root { –column-bg: #ae0001; –menu-bg-hover: #680001; –active-item: #D3A625; –active-item-text: #680001; –hover-item: #BE0002; –text-color: #FFFFFF; –active-presence: #00FFBA; …
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The Washington Post has created a nice article on the upcoming solar eclipse that will cross the United States On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will be visible from the contiguous United States. It’ll be the first to traverse coast to coast in nearly a century. There will be 69 total solar eclipses visible …
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why-did-you-updatewhy-did-you-update is a library that hooks into React and detects potentially unnecessary component renders. It detects when a component’s render method is called despite its props their values are the same. Installation per npm, of course: npm install –save-dev why-did-you-update No need to adjust all your components either, why-did-you-update works by patching React itself: import …
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sw-toolbox – A Collection of Tools for Service WorkersService Worker Toolbox provides some simple helpers for use in creating your own service workers. Specifically, it provides common caching strategies for dynamic content, such as API calls, third-party resources, and large or infrequently used local resources that you don’t want precached. The code itself is very readable I must say: importScripts(‘sw-toolbox.js’); toolbox.precache([ ‘/css/app.css’, ‘/img/logo.png’ …
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Good observation by Jeremy Keith, after having attended (the magnificent) CSS Day: Unlike a programming language that requires knowledge of loops, variables, and other concepts, CSS is pretty easy to pick up. Maybe it’s because of this that it has gained the reputation of being simple. It is simple in the sense of “not complex”, …
justify-content: space-evenly; for FlexboxA new alignment mode for Flex-containers is justify-content: space-evenly; The alignment subjects are distributed so that the spacing between any two adjacent alignment subjects, before the first alignment subject, and after the last alignment subject is the same. Currently supported in Firefox, and in Chrome Canary. Box Alignment justify-content: space-evenly; for Flex-Containers →