A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
I’m a huge mapping nerd, so I’m a sucker for the Maps JavaScript API WebGL beta which was announced at Google I/O back in May: Introduced are three new features: WebGL Overlay View lets you add custom 2D and 3D graphics and animated content to your maps. Tilt and heading can now be adjusted programmatically, …
Percollate is a command-line tool that turns web pages into beautifully formatted PDF, EPUB, or HTML files. Installation per NPM npm install -g percollate Once installed you can, for example, run this: percollate epub https://brm.us/at-layer -o css-at-layer.epub Percollate will automatically extract the main content (powered by Mozilla’s Readability.js), perform some enhancements on it (such as …
min-content, max-content, and fit-content in CSS
In this guide, we cover what these keyword values are, their differences, and how they can apply to a real-world project. As a bonus, fit-content() (the function) is also covered. Understanding min-content, max-content, and fit-content in CSS →
On YouTube I follow SmarterEveryDay. The latest published video is about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The James Webb Space Telescope is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity. The longer wavelengths enable Webb to look much …
Wonderful little tool by Rik Schennink to redact photos straight in the browser. The redacted parts can’t be reversed, as the pixels get randomly shifted before they are blurred. I've added this "How does it work?" section to https://t.co/EoDQGxV4An to explain why _I think_ its blurring is secure. https://t.co/bb1Wvj3JsV pic.twitter.com/KVGigqJHly — Rik Schennink (@rikschennink) October …
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Over at Smashing Magazine, Stephanie Eckles has published an extensive piece on CSS Debugging. In my experience, CSS layout issues often fall out of one of the following categories: Overflow of content from its parent resulting in extra or unexpected scrollbars and content being pushed out of the regular viewport area. Inheriting browser inconsistencies leading …
Ahmad Shadeed recently spotted this declaration in Facebook’s CSS: .card { border-radius: max(0px, min(8px, calc((100vw – 4px – 100%) * 9999))); } It’s a really interesting piece of code, which acts as a toggle to only show rounded corners in case the element does not entirely span the viewport width. We don’t want rounded corners …
Interesting read on how the folks at Cloudflare saw Facebook go down last night, and how it impacted traffic on their end. The Internet is literally a network of networks, and it’s bound together by BGP. BGP allows one network (say Facebook) to advertise its presence to other networks that form the Internet. As we …
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The Visual Studio Code extension named “CodeSwing” just blew my socks off. CodeSwing is an interactive coding playground for VS Code, that allows you to build/explore/learn rich web applications (“swings”). It’s like having the magic of a traditional web playground (e.g. CodePen, JSFiddle), but in Visual Studio Code! Using the Command Palette you can create …
Cloudflare just announced their Cloud Storage solution, R2, with a very interesting pricing model (emphasis mine): Traditional object storage charges developers for three things: bandwidth, storage size and storage operations. R2 builds on Cloudflare’s commitment to the Bandwidth Alliance, providing zero-cost egress for stored objects — no matter your request rate. Cloudflare R2 will be …