A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
With CSS Variables now being under development for Edge (the last of the modern browsers to not support it yet) it’s time to dig up this brilliant post on CSS Variables. If you’re under the impression that CSS Variables offer nothing new when compared to Preprocessor variables, then this post is a must-read for you: …
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Virtual reality is a brand new frontier, but there are already tools that cover almost all the steps of creating a new experience (thank you, game industry). Sketching however, still remains a method that works … if you do it right: I used to do a lot sketches of only part of the view, or …
AnimatedVectorDrawableSeeing Lottie in action, I was reminded of Android’s AnimatedVectorDrawable which also allows one to do vector based animations. This class animates properties of a VectorDrawable with animations defined using ObjectAnimator or AnimatorSet. If you’re familiar with SVG, the AnimatedVectorDrawable XML contents will look familiar. The “Endless Pin Jump” animation (pictured above) for example is …
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By the folks at AirBnB: Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, allowing apps to use animations as easily as they use static images. Lottie uses a JSON file – generated by the BodyMovin plugin for After Effects as its source, and then renders it …
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At Uber, we use maps for everything — visualizing millions of geo data points, monitoring road conditions, and advocating for policy change in cities around the world. Over the last few years we have experienced immense growth. As a result, we have many teams across the organization producing map visualizations for a wide range of needs. We …
In the past I’ve seen some demos like this one that use JavaScript/math to calculate the hover direction upon mouseenter. Detecting the direction is also possible sans JavaScript, by adding triangular hitareas to a box/link in combination with the CSS General Sibling Selector (viz. ~) to rotate the content. Internally it looks like this: Note …
Great satirical piece by a fake Hillary Clinton account on Medium: None of you gave a fuck about my email server. None of you even knows what a fucking email server is or does. You were just waiting for any excuse — any excuse at all — to be like “yep, that’s why I hate that bitch.” 😂 Are …
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docker-time-sync-agentToday, at work, a colleague of mine ran into some time issues with his Docker containers: the time was clearly off. Turns out it’s a common problem: Docker’s daemon fails to update the VM’s time after computer wakes up from sleep. The result is that VM’s clock will be set to a past time. This …
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At the end of the original film, Rebel ships fly along the Death Star trench in an attempt to blow up the space station. […] Can you point to the trench that Luke and the Rebels flew down to fire upon the exhaust port that would ultimately destroy the space station? And nopes, it’s not …