A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Baller addition (in preview) to Azure Functions: Azure Functions offers first-class support for a limited number of languages. Now in preview, register custom handlers by providing a lightweight HTTP server in any desired language. Use this new capability to extend the language support for your applications, enabling the use of languages or language versions not …
Small site by @mathias (who else?) on the Unicode support in browsers their JavaScript engines. Changes in the Unicode Standard can affect the JavaScript language. This page gives concrete examples and tracks which exact Unicode version each browser supports for each feature. What surprises me is that some engines support different Unicode versions per feature. …
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The Docker folks have released their first GitHub Action build-push-action which builds and pushes Docker images and will log in to a Docker registry if required. Building and pushing an image becomes really easy: uses: docker/build-push-action@v1 with: username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }} repository: myorg/myrepository tags: latest Amongst other options you can also …
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Update 2020.06.09: here’s a full tutorial to get you started with RedwoodJS. Now here’s an interesting project: Redwood is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on …
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Chris Coyier, after seeing the footer on a site called The Markup: The footer is clever, in how it appears to slide out from underneath the content as you scroll to the bottom of the page. Let’s make it! Scroll to the very bottom in this pen to see the footer appear from underneath the …
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Sebastian De Deyne, after seeing too many PRs that contain unrelated commits to the repository’s .gitignore: There’s a better solution to this: a personal, global .gitignore file for all your repositories. Here’s how you can set one up. Setting up a global .gitignore file →
unDraw provides you with a set of (mainly cliché) illustrations, free for use: Create better designed websites, products and applications. Browse to find the images that fit your messaging, automagically customise the color to match your brand and use it as a normal image, embedded code or directly in your design workflow. Since they’re SVG’s, …
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UPDATE 2021.01.14: Besides using clip-path, a more easy approach is to use mix-blend-mode: difference; if all you’re doing is inverting colors. Ever had a fixed header that had to work with both light and dark content shown underneath it? Keep an eye at the header in the video below to see what I’m talking about: …
Two Factor Authentication via TOTP for all your Users out-of-the-box. This packages adds a Contract to detect in a per-user basis if it should use Two Factor Authentication. It includes a custom view and a listener to handle the Two Factor authentication itself during login attempts. It is not invasive, but you can go full …
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Now this looks handy: a GitHub action that builds release notes for you: As pull requests are merged, a draft release is kept up-to-date listing the changes, ready to publish when you’re ready You configure the release notes contents using a .github/release-drafter.yml file in your repo: template: | ## What’s Changed $CHANGES More advanced templates …