A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Adam Wathan from Tailwind: One of the hardest constraints we’ve had to deal with as we’ve improved Tailwind CSS over the years is the generated file size in development. With enough customizations to your config file, the generated CSS can reach 10mb or more, and there’s only so much CSS that build tools and even …
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Building further upon my posts digging into Scroll-Linked Animations, Gary Simon created this video recreating a basic Scroll-Linked Animation that animates an image as you scroll down the page. Good video if you’re looking for a quick intro. Two minor remarks though: Instead of speeding up the time-range it’s better to tweak the scroll-offsets. Even …
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The past few months Rodrigo Pombo has been working on Code Hike, a new way to write code walkthroughs for blogs or docs. Recently he shared this preview of the step scroller (“scrollycoding”) component. Looks great! Scrollycoding Demo →
Recently Banksy put up a new work on the walls of a defunct prison in England. The work depicts a prisoner escaping, dangling off the wall using a long strand of paper emerging from a typewriter, instead of the usual bedsheets. Taking footage and audio from Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting they also released …
Pete LePage walks us through the additions in Chrome 89. 🤩 I’m honored to have my WebHID Daft Punk Sound Board be featured in the “WebHID, WebNFC, and Web Serial section there. Let’s hope other browser vendors follow soon with top level await, as Chromium is the only browser to support it at the time …
For as long as we’ve had language, some people have tried to control it. And some of the most frequent targets of this communication regulation are the ums, ers, and likes that pepper our conversations. These linguistic fillers occur roughly 2 to 3 times per minute in natural speech. So are ums and uhs just …
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Not that I’m a fan of Tailwind, but this (free) video course by the Tailwind folks themselves is a very good starting point to those wanting to get started with it. Today we’re excited to release Tailwind CSS: From Zero to Production, a new screencast series that teaches you everything you need to know to …
Jake and Surma tackle the age-old problem: what should you include in an image’s alt text?
Jonathan Yeong tried out Snowpack and is equally excited as I am about it. Related: 🙋♂️ If you’re looking for a detailed step-by-step post on Snowpack, check out Learn Snowpack: A High-Performance Frontend Build Tool to get you started.
RIP. If you’re into this kind of things, be sure to check the rest of the Sample Breakdown videos. Some nice gems in there! Related: Recently I made a WebHID-powered Daft Punk Sound Board for you to play with!