A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Just announced by the React Team are Server Components: React Server Components are still in research and development. We are sharing this work in the spirit of transparency and to get initial feedback from the React community. With Server Side Rendering the rendering of your app to HTML happens up front, gets sent to the …
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Pretty crazy: a timelapse + lip-sync video all while growing a beard in between: Timelapse animation music video, with my beard growing through Covid lockdown. Using my face as a stop-motion puppet (a technique called pixilation), I took 2,117 individual photos, every night, over 101 days, and synchronized the actions to the song “Better Days” …
The collection precisely uses a 7:1 color contrast ratio, a contrast level that makes a visual most accessible to people with disability. We use an international vision enhancement method by W3C organization, which makes a content or object visible at Level AAA standard (a highest level of visibility). Must say I find them visually quite …
Few tips by Jake Archibald — as presented at #ChromeDevSummit — on how you can use some of the new and upcoming web features to improve the performance of your page. Covered are the aforementioned content-visibility, Font metric override descriptors, the Back/Forward Cache, Portals, and Preloading
In this video from #ChromeDevSummit 2020, Una walks us through Houdini and the aforementioned houdini.how CSS Houdini is an umbrella term that describes a series of low-level browser APIs and worklets which enable developers to hook into the browser’s rendering engine and extend the styling capabilities of today. Learn about the various Houdini API’s, as …
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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