A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Very cool project by Jo Francetti in which she created a live captioning service. She uses a webpage on a phone to capture her speech — using getUserMedia() — which she then sends over to Azure Cognitive Services’ “Speech to Text” Service to get back the text. The text eventually ends up on the flexible …
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One of the side-effects when drawing things with a Houdini Paint Worklet and relying on Math.random() in your code, is that your layout might be jumpy. Check out my CSS Houdini Paint Worklet that draws colorful circles for example: whenever you resize the available space or change one of its properties — or some of …
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During #ChromDevSummit, Houdini.how got announced: Houdini.how is a library and reference for Houdini worklets and resources. It provides everything you need to know about CSS Houdini: browser support, an overview of its various APIs, usage information, additional resources, and live paint worklet samples. Each sample on Houdini.how is backed by the CSS Paint API, meaning …
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Will Boyd: CSS custom properties can hold all sorts of things. Some of these things were not obvious to me, which is why I decided to write this. In short: they can contain just about everything. It’s only until CSS Custom Properties are used in a certain context as a CSS Variable — using var() …
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When mentioning CSS Custom Properties here on bram.us I do tend to name them like that — and not CSS Variables — as that’s their official name. I always thought the terms could be used interchangeably — with CSS Variables simply being the unofficial name — but as detailed by Šime Vidas on Web Platform …
squoosh-cli
To compress and compare images with different codecs right in your browser there’s squoosh.app that you can use. Announced at the still ongoing Chrome Dev Summit 2020 is Squoosh v2 with new codecs support (AVIF!), an updated design, and the release of CLI version! Squoosh CLI is an experimental way to run all the codecs …
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prefers-reduced-data
Part of CSS Media Queries Level 5 is the User Preference Media Feature prefers-reduced-data: The prefers-reduced-data CSS media feature is used to detect if the user has requested the web content that consumes less internet traffic. There currently is no browser support at all, but that doesn’t stop Kilian Valkhof from taking a peek under …
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Adam Silver, who works at/with the fine folks at GOV.UK: Tabs should only look like tabs if they behave like tabs otherwise it can be in disorienting and confusing for users. Shown above is the old layout that featured the tabs (which are actually links, here). The new version still has the links in place …
In this tutorial series , I’ll be showing you how to build a functional and secure chat app using the latest React Native libraries, the Expo framework, and Firebase, powered by the ChatKitty platform. Very complete I must say. Must have taken an ton of work to write. Building a Chat App with React Native …
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With the release of React 17 we also had to change the way we import React: To clarify: ✅ import { useState } from 'react'✅ import * as React from 'react'🟡 import React from 'react' The third one is called "default import" and in the long term (maybe in 19 or 20) we will stop …