A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
In The several ways to import React, Kent C. Dodds also covers a bit about JSX and “the JSX pragma”. Here’s a video of CSS Tricks’ Chris Coyier goofing around with it. JSX is not fancy. It essentially transforms angle brackets in JavaScript into function calls. That works great for React, but because we can …
Video by Tom Scott on 3rd party cookies and tracking and what not. Also See: How ads follow you around the internet →
Today we are painting a girl taking a selfie, with mathematics. I like how the author, a few minutes into the video, says … none of which is too complicated to be honest … while I’m hardly understanding any of the things that he’s explaining 🥵 You can play with the result over at Shadertoy.
I was delighted to read that CodePen now has built-in support for Skypack. This is a huge step forward to working with packages on CodePen. Great addition to the product! But what exactly is Skypack? Well, it’s the successor to the aforementioned Pika CDN with some extra juice: Skypack not only serves packages that export …
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Very nice video by Sam Selikoff in which he sets up a web manifest to make his site feel more app-like. Great production quality. There are some tweaks I’d suggest though: Fixate the header using position: sticky; instead of position: fixed;. No need for that extra margin on the content then. Update: See note below …
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At Google Cloud Next ’20, Cloud Run Product Manager Steren Giannini (@steren) walked us through some of the new things that are coming to Google Cloud Run. Some highlights: VPC Peering Gradual Rollouts (with custom URLs per tagged release) New Load-Balancing Features (Multi Region, Cloud CDN, IAP) Easy Continuous Deployment Min instances (no cold starts) …
Back in June I was invited to speak at JSConf.be. This year’s edition focused on DevSecOps and Security. My talk “Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run” — which I have brought forward before at Full Stack Ghent and PHP-WVL — was a perfect match for it. Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform by …
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Being a fan of Christoper Nolan’s work, I liked this look back at Inception — an amazing movie with a wonderful soundtrack — which recently turned 10.
If you’re looking for a quick rundown of the aforementioned AlpineJS, here’s a talk by AlpineJS’s author Caleb Porzio which he presented at JSNation:
Hidde recently gave a talk at CSS Café on the origins of CSS: It’s been 25 years since the first people proposed a language to style the web. Since the late nineties, CSS lived through years of platform evolution. The cascade, specificity and the enormous choice in values and units set the language up for …
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