A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Interesting announcement from Facebook: Hermes is an open-source JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native apps on Android. For many apps, simply enabling Hermes will result in improved start-up time, decreased memory usage and smaller app size. At this time Hermes is an opt-in React Native feature, and this guide explains how to enable it. …
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Vasilis had some fun and created these experimental clock interfaces. First up is the “Decimal Clock”: If we had ten hours in a day, instead of 24, and if each of these hours had 100 minutes instead of 60, and if every minute had 100 seconds, our clocks would look like this, and the time …
Yesterday, while at a workshop, React Hooks (intro here) became the subject of discussion between participants. Someone in the audience asked how to easily map the classes+lifecycle way of thinking onto hooks, as she had trouble doing so. In short, my recommendation was to no longer think in lifecycles but to think in effects, as …
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Nice work by Tatiana Mac, in which she recreated “Kandinsky zum 60. Geburtstag” by Herbert Bayer using CSS Grid. For comparison, here’s the original: Kandinsky Geburstag Invite on CodePen →
Despite being over 20 years old, there’s signs that CSS might be going through the same tumultuous teenage years that JavaScript just went through. Flexbox! Grid! CSS-in-JS! In 2019, CSS is finally dyeing its hair pink and getting a tattoo just like it’s always secretly wanted. Parenting books won’t help much with this one, but …
As mentioned before I’m really looking forward to Typed Properties that will land in PHP 7.4 (now in alpha!). Brent has done a full writeup on ‘m: In this post we’ll look at the feature in-depth, but first let’s start by summarising the most important points: They are available as of PHP 7.4, which is …
At the City Intelligence unit at City Hall almost anyone can create a data visualisation. To keep everyone in line they created Data Design Guidelines: Effective communication of evidence and data through information design and data visualisation, is obviously important to help inform policy internally, but it is also just as important to help boroughs …
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Recently the Google Street View footage for the area I live in got updated. This got me thinking: Google Street View is a time capsule. I’m quite sure that one day we’ll be able to time travel through the captured footage. GooBing Detroit is a project compares old and new GSV footage from the Detroit …
As just announced (on stage) at CSS Day by Heydon himself: If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves. Through a series of simple, composable layouts, Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS. …
<picture> element
Great trick by Brad Frost, in which he combines prefers-reduced-motion? with the <picture> element <picture> <source srcset="no-motion.jpg" media="(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)"></source> <img src="animated.gif alt="brick wall" /> </picture> Yes, that actually works! Reducing motion with the <picture> element → 💫 When taking prefers-reduced-motion into account in your CSS code, it becomes really powerful when combined with CSS Custom …
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