A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
It’s been a while since I’ve set up a server with Node, but turns out Fastify is preferred over Express nowadays. Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture. It is inspired by Hapi and Express and as far as we …
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transition.css
transition.css is a handy stylesheet by Adam Argyle, full of transitions you can apply on your page. Simply import the stylesheet and set a transition-style attribute on the elements you wish to animate for the effect to kick in: <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/transition-style" /> <div transition-style="in:wipe:up">👍</div> Not explicitly mentioned on the demo page (but is in …
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<feColorMatrix> with SVG Color Matrix Mixer
Easily generate nice looking Color Matrix Filters for your images For use with the <feColorMatrix /> SVG filter. SVG Color Matrix Mixer →
Great work by Linmiao Xu: SSH tunnels are encrypted TCP connections between SSH clients and servers that allows traffic entering one side of the tunnel to transparently exit through the other. This page explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows. Also comes with the commands … handy! A …
@property and its Animating Powers
Over at CSS-Tricks Jhey Tompkins has written a solid piece on the amazing @property and the possibilities it opens: We can give the browser the information is needs to transition and animate those properties! Covered in the post, amongst many other interesting demos, are Jhey’s own Pure CSS Stopwatch and my own animated gradient border …
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Now this is a fun distraction: watch dashcam footage of a car driving around a city with the local radio on. Turn on Street Noise for that extra effect. Drive & Listen →
Interesting read on how GTA Online player t0st got elbow deep into disassembling GTA Online to fix its poor loading times. After taking a minute to load the common resources used for both story and online modes (which is near on par with high-end PCs) GTA decides to max out a single core on my …
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State Partitioning is an interesting privacy feature shipping with Firefox 86. With State Partitioning, shared state such as cookies, localStorage, etc. will be partitioned (isolated) by the top-level website you’re visiting. In other words, every first party and its embedded third-party contexts will be put into a self-contained bucket. Applies to every embedded third-party resource …
Harry Roberts explains how to inspect pages from MobileSafari (on your iDevice) using the Safari (on your Mac) DevTools. It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but if I recall correctly you can — once set up — also debug pages in MobileSafari without needing a physical USB connection. It’ll run over Bluetooth. Measuring …
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While looking at a package.json from a public project from PayPal, Alex Birsan noticed that it held some references to private NPM packages used internally by PayPal. Birsan noticed some of the manifest file packages were not present on the public npm repository but were instead PayPal’s privately created npm packages, used and stored internally …