A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
A talk by Pierrick Calvez. I especially like the part on the hyphen vs. en dash vs. em dash — the latter being a symbol which I use quite a lot — and the mentioning of keming 🙂 A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography →
obs-websocket
If you’re using OBS Studio for your streaming needs, obs-websocket might come in handy: ot’s a WebSocket Server that allows you to remotely control OBS. Once installed and activated you can then use something like obs-tablet-remote as a GUI for it. obs-websocket WebSockets API for OBS Studio →OBS Tablet Remote → Via Patrick 💡 If …
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Alex Trost at Frontend Horse: One style I’ve been loving is the 3D work that Ricardo Oliva Alonso creates on CodePen. It’s a style that looks like it was drawn in Adobe Illustrator or modeled with Three.js. Ricardo will often find a piece on Dribbble and recreate it on CodePen, styling it entirely with HTML …
leading-trim – The Future of Digital Typesetting
Ethan Wang, who works at Microsoft: In a standard text box, there’s almost always extra space above and below the actual text. Because of this, when you use a text box to measure and implement spacing, it ends up larger than you intended. The bigger the line height, the bigger the problem. You can see …
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David Shayer, who was an iPod Software Engineer – the 2nd one they hired for the iPod project when it started in 2001 – back in the day: It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod …
In my post on Flexbox Gap I wanted to feature detect support for it using @supports. That however failed. As I then noted: In the demo above I wanted to show a warning in browsers that don’t support flexbox gap. For that I tried using @supports, which has proven to be successful before. .warning { …
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The folks at Tighten: In this post, I’ll present some strategies we use at Tighten to convert legacy apps to Laravel gradually over time, without needing to perform a full rewrite. Whether you’re upgrading from an old framework or moving to a framework for the first time, following these steps will let you start benefitting …
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With Masonry being specced in Grid Layout Module Level 2 – and already being implemented in Firefox – Ana Tudor looked into whipping up a lightweight fallback for browsers that don’t support it. 🤔 Masonry Layout? Masonry is a grid layout based on columns, as popularized by Pinterest. Unlike other grid layouts, it doesn’t have …
In Chrome 86, we’re going to experiment with how URLs are shown in the address bar on desktop platforms. Our goal is to understand — through real-world usage — whether showing URLs this way helps users realize they’re visiting a malicious website, and protects them from phishing and social engineering attacks. A shame they didn’t …
Lea Verou on how Optional Chaining affected her code, along with caveats and scenarios where it couldn’t be used. Now that optional chaining is supported across the board, I decided to finally refactor Mavo to use it. This is a moment I have been waiting for a long time, as I think optional chaining is …
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