A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The author of the Have I Been Pwnd website got a nasty surprise: an AU $5,000 bill from Azure (that eventually racked up to $11,000). The culprit: a sudden spike of outgoing bandwidth due to a file no longer being cached properly. I guess I’m looking at this a bit like the last time I …
Nixery is a Docker-compatible container registry that is capable of transparently building and serving container images using Nix. Images are built on-demand based on the image name. For example: docker pull http://nixery.dev/shell/git/htop The command above will give you an image with an interactive Shell, that also has git and htop installed. Keep adding more path …
In CSS, Specificity is expressed as a triad/triple (A,B,C). An example value would be (1,1,2). To compare specificity — i.e. to see which value has a higher specificity — you need to compare each component of the triple until you find a difference: function compareSpecificity(x, y) { // x and y being arrays such as …
Now that’s a fun little quiz by Vincent Will: A small fun app to test your CSS knowledge. Find the correct CSS selectors for the 10 puzzles as fast as possible. Finished my in 04:38:7. Level 8 tripped me up though: didn’t immediately see the pattern and lost more than 2 minutes on it 😅. …
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There’s a pretty nasty exploit in Safari 15, where sites/tabs that interact with an IndexedDB database leak that name to other tabs. In Safari 15 on macOS, and in all browsers on iOS and iPadOS 15, the IndexedDB API is violating the same-origin policy. Every time a website interacts with a database, a new (empty) …
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From Devon Govett, author of Parcel, comes Parcel CSS: Parcel CSS is a new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier written in Rust. It has significantly better performance than existing tools, while also improving minification quality. Looking at the charts, it pretty darn fast indeed. The key feature does not come from its Minification or Vendor …
Luke Downing made a contribution to Laravel. Before starting to write code, he took the time to look at how the repo was structured and how the code was written. By mimicking the ruling code style, his PR got accepted immediately: When Dries [one of the maintainers] reviewed my PR, he understood the code immediately. …
Micro CSS util class for applying inflated fluffy 3D claymorphism styles to HTML elements. Fully customizable and extensible with CSS variables. SASS mixin is also included for even more styling options. I never really liked the neumorphism look, but this “claymorphism” by Adrian Bece looks nice. clay.css →clay.css Source (GitHub) →
Shipping in Chromium 98 (currently in beta) is support for COLRv1 Color Gradient Vector Fonts. This is a pretty exciting addition, I must say! COLRv1 enables powerful 2D graphics glyph definitions (gradients, transforms), supports variations, and reuses existing glyph contour definitions. Previous color font formats embed bitmap files into the OpenType font containers. They do …
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Earlier this week, Haroen Viaene posted this tweet about YAML: worst part of yaml: https://yaml.org/type/bool.html — Haroen Viaene (@haroenv) January 10, 2022 The linked-to page contains the documentation on what defines a boolean in YAML, and details that it can be parsed using this regex: y|Y|yes|Yes|YES|n|N|no|No|NO |true|True|TRUE|false|False|FALSE |on|On|ON|off|Off|OFF The reason to why this is problematic …