A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Ever saw your code break and don’t know when exactly the bug was introduced? Zvonimir Spajic walks us through git bisect to find the commit that broke things. I’ve used it myself quite a few times by now and it truly is really helpful in those situations. What I didn’t know however, is that it’s …
Melanie Richards: If you’ve ever tried to put a sticky item in a grid layout and watched the item scroll away with the rest of the content, you might have come to the conclusion that position: sticky doesn’t work with CSS Grid. Fear not! It is possible to get these two layout concepts working together. …
A geospatial analytics platform for data unification, enrichment, and visualization. It’s built on top of the aforementioned deck.gl and Kepler.gl Unfolded Studio →Unfolded Studio Example: All Public Transport stops in Germany → Sidenote: By the looks of it, the open-source Kepler.gl is doing the heavy lifting there.
MirrorDisplays a simple application that toggles between mirrored and extended desktop modes. It’s the easiest way to turn on, or turn off display mirroring. Also comes with a (separately installable) CLI tool which makes this pretty interesting The command line tool is good for giving shell-scripts the power to control display mirroring and opens up …
If you’re looking for an intro on how to deploy your React app to Vercel, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Heroku, etc. this page has got you covered. Comes with easy to follow instructions. 10 ways to deploy a React app for free → Related: Here’s my post on how to deploy your first site onto …
From the folks over at the HTTP Archive The Web Almanac is a comprehensive report on the state of the web, backed by real data and trusted web experts. It is comprised of 22 chapters spanning aspects of page content, user experience, publishing, and distribution. Be sure to reserve some time for this, as this …
Just announced by Cloudflare — and currently in beta — is “Cloudflare Pages”, a product that competes with Netlify. Cloudflare Pages is a JAMstack platform for frontend developers to collaborate and deploy websites. Plays nice with Cloudflare Workers too. Cloudflare Pages →Cloudflare Pages Announcement →
Tim Severien: CSS may seem simple at first, but the learning curve isn’t linear; mastering it is hard. By no means is the language perfect, but it’s amazingly efficient at what it’s designed to do. Despite its simple syntax, there’s little it can’t do. What Makes CSS Hard To Master → Related: As Jeremy Keith …
In 2004 Vimeo wrote their first backend code in PHP. 16 years later and they (mainly) still run PHP. Many developers wrote a bit of PHP a decade ago and have since moved on to better-respected languages. They’re often eager to tell others how relieved they are to not be writing PHP anymore, and how …
When embedding a GitHub Gist using a script tag, its contents gets injected into your page’s DOM. As the injected wrapper node has a .gist class, it’s perfectly possible to customize the appearance on your own site. Will Boyd walks us through it. Will also created a repository with several pre-built themes. Simply add one …