A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Something like 90% of websites that use SSL encryption use an algorithm called SHA-1 to protect themselves from being impersonated. This guarantees that when you go to green lock for facebook.com, you’re visiting the real Facebook and not giving your password to an attacker. Unfortunately, SHA-1 is dangerously weak, and has been for a long …
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Hyperlapses are a special kind of time lapse where the camera is also moving. Capturing hyperlapses has traditionally been a laborious process that involves meticulous planning, a variety of camera mounts and professional video editing software. With Hyperlapse, our goal was to simplify this process. We landed on a single record button and a post-capture …
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Click the icon marked with the pink-ish circle to open Device Mode. Click the icon marked with the red circle to activate the Media Query Inspector. One can quickly choose a device and also throttle the network using the blue and orange dropdowns at the top. You might have to enable Devtools Experiments in Canary …
The ISEE-3 was launched to study the Sun in 1978, but ended up redefining space flight. Now it’s on a new mission to become citizen science’s first spacecraft, with data accessible by everyone. Very cool mission, with a very neat website. A must watch. A Spacecraft for All: The Journey of the ISEE-3 →
Critical CSS opens a page in a browser from the command line, sets the window width to a specified width and height (default is 1200 x 900), and analyzes which styles are applied to elements that fall within the visible portion of that viewport. It then writes those styles to a file that you can …
JavaScript countdown (or up) script with split-flap flip effect. Used it in a recent project and works like a charm. Only downside is that it’s px based, but that can be overcome. Be sure to also click that “Developer API” link on the site, as the main page itself does not hold all needed information …
FF Franziska is a typeface suited for long text: discreet, functional and modern, but with real personality. To give you lots of flexibility in your design and production, FF Franziska provides not only good legibility in the body text, but also interesting characteristics in larger point sizes. Lovely typeface, with a lovely site covering its …