A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Next to Safari 12.1 earlier this month, Firefox 67 now also supports “CSS Color Scheme Queries”. The prefers-color-scheme media feature allows sites to adapt their styles to match a user’s preference for dark or light color schemes, a choice that’s begun to appear in operating systems like Windows, macOS and Android. Chrome will support + …
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Kent C. Dodds on how he uses React itself – and not something like Redux – for his Application State Management. Here’s the real kicker, if you’re building an application with React, you already have a state management library installed in your application. You don’t even need to npm install (or yarn add) it. It …
Sean Coone got hacked last week. Even with 2FA enabled, hackers got in … because his phone number got transferred to a rogue device: My personal identity was hacked last week. The attacker was able to steal $100k+ in a sweep of my Coinbase account. I’m equal parts embarrassed, hurt, and deeply remorseful. In an …
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I like this mouse trail effect by Noah Yamamoto. Implementation is in React, but don’t let that put you off … “you got this” 😉 JavaScript Mouse Trail Effect →
George R.R. Martin, on his blog “Not a Blog”, now that the final episode of Game of Thrones has aired: I’m writing. Winter is coming, I told you, long ago… and so it is. THE WINDS OF WINTER is very late, I know, I know, but it will be done. I won’t say when, I’ve …
Speaking of IE in the previous post: Microsoft just (officially) released the first preview builds for Microsoft Edge for macOS, which uses the Chromium rendering engine internally. Although I don’t use my Mac’s Touch Bar – I’ve got set it to always show the full control strip – I really like how they’ve linked it …
Great read on how a few YouTube engineers bypassed the internal Google politics in order to abolish IE6 from their list of supported browsers: One idea rose to the surface that quickly captured everyone’s attention. Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? Would they revolt against …
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Nice new addition by Packagist: If you’re selling PHP packages, the easiest way to offer Composer package installation to your customers is now “Private Packagist for Vendors”. You get a unique URL and authentication token for each customer and they can use these in their composer.json file to install your packages. Especially if you’re still …
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To truncate multiline text in CSS, Safari introduced -webkit-line-clamp a long time ago (first mentions I found date back to 2010). .line-clamp-3 { /* Required declarations: */ overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; /* Limit the text block to three lines */ -webkit-line-clamp: 3; } By now the property has been standardised as line-clamp. Firefox …
Geoffrey Dhuyvetters from madewithlove on how authors of (open source) JavaScript packages can optimize their builds for tree shaking: How do we create a package that exposes both CommonJS & ES modules while making sure we don’t break cross-platform support? Publishing 2 separate packages is an option (e.g. lodash/lodash-es). But there is a nicer, more …
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