A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Good little collection of tips for creating responsible (= responsive + accessible) web applications by Joy Heron. With modern HTML and CSS, we can create responsive and accessible web apps with relative ease. In my years of doing software development, I have learned some HTML and CSS tips and tricks, and I want to present …
Unclack is the small but mighty Mac utility that mutes your microphone while you type. No more getting called out for clacking your way through a Zoom meeting on your clicky keyboard! Heh, clever. Unclack for macOS → Related: I’m a happy user of Krisp, which uses AI to automatically filter out background noises (and …
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With Adobe Flash now gone, there’s no way to play SWF files. For sites like The Web Archive this can be troublesome as many of the old Flash-built websites will no longer be viewable. Ruffle will help them out: Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle runs natively on all modern operating …
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Two part series by Stephanie Eckles on CSS Selectors In this two-part mini-series, we’ll explore some of the more advanced CSS selectors, and examples of when to use them. Even if you’re doing frontend but not primarily writing CSS you should learn these, along with the basic CSS vocabulary. This knowledge will allow you read …
Ryan Chandler shares how to configure your GitHub Actions Workflow in such a way that they skip a build when a certain word appears in the commit message. jobs: format: runs-on: ubuntu-latest if: "! contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'nobuild')" You can also flip it around, to only build whenever a specific word is present. Running GitHub Actions for …
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Version 3.0 of the aforementioned Snowpack got released, and it’s quite exciting I must say! Pre-bundled streaming imports – Import any npm package, on-demand. Integrated build optimizations – Built-in bundling, preloading, minification, and more. JavaScript API – Integrate with Snowpack’s brand new native JS API. Node.js Runtime API – Import your Snowpack-built files directly into …
Last summer Kilian Valkhof did a wonderful write-up on the Polypane blog covering CSS Media Queries. Media queries are what make modern responsive design possible. With them you can set different styling based on things like a users screen size, device capabilities or user preferences. But how do they work, which ones are there and …
This message by Elaina Natario writing over at Thoughtbot cannot be repeated enough: While both the alt attribute and the figcaption element provide a way to describe images, the way we write for them is different. alt descriptions should be functional; figcaption descriptions should be editorial or illustrative. Examples of both functional and editorial descriptions …
Interesting post over at the Flare blog, where they had to delete over 900 million records from a MySQL table. They couldn’t simply run a DELETE FROM table query, as that would lock it: When a deletion query using a WHERE clause starts, it will lock that table. All other queries that are run against …
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There was this interesting Twitter conversation last week between Chris Coyier and Schepp last week. Apparently if you have Smooth Scrolling enabled, it also affects the behavior of Find in Page in Chrome: Whenever you want to go to the next result it will smooth scroll, instead of jump to it. Anecdotal thing: when I …
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