A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Looking forward to Everything Everywhere All At Once: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. Written and directed by the same guys who did Swiss Army Man, which explains a lot. In …
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Last week React Conf 2021 took place, focussing on the upcoming React 18 release. I especially liked these talks, all before the 2:00:00 mark: 15:00 — React 18 Keynote 48:55 — React 18 for app developers (useDeferredValue 🔥) 1:08:03 — Streaming Server Rendering with Suspense 1:26:40 — React Developer Tooling 1:54:12 — React without memo …
In this episode of HTTP 203, Jake and Surma talk about easing in CSS. You can ease-in, you can ease-out, but CSS doesn’t let you bounce. Jake and Surma chat about a proposal to fix that. After first going down the rabbit hole of creating a (now-abandoned) proposal to define custom easing functions, Jake went …
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In April 2021, Jeremy Keith gave the opening presentation at An Event Apart Spring Summit 2021. In true Jeremy-style this talk starts off with space and the early days of the web, to eventually bring us to the present day. Watch this talk (or read the transcript). And then watch it again. It’s packed with …
In this episode of HTTP 203 Jake and Surma go over the code that’s needed to use a Joy-Con (a Nintendo Switch Controller) on the web, which they also use for their own slide decks. As mentioned it’s not possible to get the orientation of the Joy-Con via (the current version of) the Gamepad API. …
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RenderingNG is a re-architecture of the entire rendering pipeline of Chrome, for greatly improved reliability, scalability and extensibility. Listen in to find out how it works and why it makes the web better. Thanks to these advancements we get better rendering of tables, container queries support, features like Scroll-Linked Animations, etc. Related: RenderingNG — Ready …
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With CSS Subgrid already being supported in Firefox (ever since version 71), and Chromium recently having started work on it, it might be the perfect time to start learning about CSS Subgrid. That’s exactly what Kevin J Powell thought too, with his “October Subgrid Awareness Month”, so he created a bunch of videos on the …
October is the month of “Divtober”, where artists are challenged to draw different things using CSS and a single HTML element. Each day they get a theme to work with. You can find some nice works on CodePen, all tagged #divtober. Here’s a small selection: See the Pen Single div CSS chili garlic sauce by …
(Warning: Spinning Imagery 😵💫) Jetson ONE is an ultralight and extremely fun to fly recreational all-electric personal vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, powered with eight powerful electric motors. For a mere 92,000 USD this baby can be yours. Orders are limited and delivery is expected in 2023. Flight time of 20 minutes. Jetson ONE …
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Here’s a demo of a rendering engine I’ve been working on that allows for non-euclidean worlds. What kind of sorcery is this?! 🤯 I do wonder what would happen when multiple players are walking around simultaneously, and how objects that pass through the tunnels would behave. NonEuclidean (GitHub) → Related: How were the portals in …