A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Olympe is a monospace font revived from an Olympia typewriter. The first weight, regular, is based on the original weights of the font that was on this machine, and the light weight, close to hairline actually, has been designed from scratch, with a heavy punctuation, because who doesn’t like a bit of contrast? When I …
jless — A command-line JSON viewer
jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data. Installation via Homebrew brew install jless jless — A command-line JSON viewer →jless Source (GitHub) → Related: jq – flexible command-line JSON processor
Matthew Philips made something odd-looking: a JavaScript framework that lets you add DOM bindings using a CSS-like syntax. Say your framework of choice generates this markup: <div class="counter"> <button type="button" class="increment">Increment</button> <button type="button" class="decrement" disabled>Decrement</button> <div class="result"> Count: <strong class="count">0</strong> </div> </div> Using Corset, you can then add behavior as follows: import sheet, { mount …
Some parts of the UI in macOS are powered by the web. Jim Nielsen shares how you can inspect these using Safari’s Web Inspector Inspecting Web Views in macOS →
A very interesting Stage-0 proposal is to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript. The proposed syntax looks like this: function add(a: number, b: number) { return a + b; } The type hints wouldn’t be used by JS itself though — so you won’t get a runtime error if you pass something other …
Yesterday, Safari 15.4 got released, and it contains a ton of good stuff that we’ve seen land in the Technology Previews before. With over 70 additions to WebKit, Safari 15.4 is packed with new web technologies, updates, and fixes. We’ve assembled a huge release as part of our commitment to web developers, and the people …
OWA (Open Web Advocacy) is a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web by providing regulators, legislators and policy makers the intricate technical details that they need to understand the major anti-competitive issues in our industry and how to solve …
Check this tweet by Chris Johnson: it’s a tweet with a link whose preview image shows the actual number of retweets and likes for said tweet. A meta tweet.https://t.co/lvaYUszJaE — Chris Johnson (@defaced) January 25, 2022 Cool! In a later tweet, Chris shares how it’s done: How this works!👷♀️ A @Cloudflare worker responds to requests …
The Lit team is pleased to announce an experimental preview release of @lit-labs/eleventy-plugin-lit, a new plugin for Eleventy that renders your Lit components as static HTML during your Eleventy build, and lets you hydrate them after your JavaScript loads. This is pretty nice, as out comes Declarative Shadow DOM-compatible which Chromium-based browsers can render, while …
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Unredacter shows you why you should never ever ever use pixelation as a redaction technique. As mentioned in the accompanying write-up: The bottom line is that when you need to redact text, use black bars covering the whole text. Never use anything else. No pixelization, no blurring, no fuzzing, no swirling. unredacter (GitHub) →Never, Ever, …
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