A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Interesting: a CSS library that only provides you with CSS Custom Properties to use in your own CSS: Pollen is a library of CSS variables for rapid prototyping, consistent styling, and as a zero-runtime utility-first foundation for your own design systems. Heavily inspired by TailwindCSS. Pollen →
Another excellent post by Josh W. Comeau, this time covering CSS Transforms. In this blog post, we’re diving deep into the transform property. I’ll show you some of the cool and unexpected things you can do with it! As per usual, the post is packed with interactive playgrounds for you to try things out. The …
I you want to get the summary about browser choice on iOS, Stuart Langridge has got you covered: Last week I sat down with the UK Competition and Markets Authority, the regulator, to talk about browser choice on Apple devices, and whether the claims that limiting choice is good for security and privacy actually hold …
At Google, they’ve worked out a new way to progressively enhance images: When delivering images over the web, it is now possible to organize the data in such a way that the most salient parts arrive first. Ideally you don’t even notice that some less salient parts have not yet arrived, because by the time …
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Similar to how jq allows you to extract content from JSON files on the CLI, htmlq allows you extract content from HTML files. Like jq, but for HTML. Uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. You can pass in a local HTML file, but also pipe it to cURL requests. For …
Great post by George Francis, in which he leverages the Voronoi tessellation to generate aesthetically pleasing random patterns. When composing generative patterns, placing objects on a canvas purely at random can feel chaotic, while aligning them to a traditional grid can feel rigid/predictable. While both chaos and exacting precision can both be beautiful qualities in …
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Starting off with a 10.06MB SVG, Zach Leatherman tried several routes to reduce the weight of the hero image on the right side of the home page on JamStackConf.com. Eventually he settled on an approach where he layered a transparent WebP image on top of an SVG. Both layers were optimized individually, leaving only 78KB …
Digging deeper into Chromium’s RenderingNG architecture, this post explains its key data structures: Frame trees, The immutable fragment tree, Property trees, Display lists and paint chunks, and Compositor frames. Let’s dig into the key data structures that are inputs and outputs to the rendering pipeline. Would love to see this as a talk at a …
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In the previous post on AVIF, the folks at Evil Martians, also talked about imgproxy — their standalone server for resizing and converting remote images. It looks like a pretty amazing product, allowing you to run your own imgix-like service, warranting this separate post about it. imgproxy can be used to provide a fast and …
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