A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Saad Quadri created a handy website that lists all ECMAScript Proposals. On one single page you can get a quick glimpse of all proposals and the current stage they are in. Great to see that the various stages of the TC39 Development Process themselves —something I always mention in my ever-evolving talk on ESNext— get …
Leveraging Chromium’s built-in EyeDroper API —which I wrote about earlier this year— Patrick Brosset created an extension for Chromium that allows you to pick a color from anywhere on your screen. In an accompanying blogpost he also explains how he built it: Back when I worked on the [EyeDroper API] article, I got interested in …
SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, …
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@scroll-timeline (Part 4)
🚨 UPDATE: The Scroll-Linked Animations Specification and its proposed syntax have undergone a major rewrite. This post details an older version of the syntax and has not been updated to reflect these changes. Do note that the concept of a Scroll-Linked Animation still stands, it’s only the syntax that has changed since writing this. Please …
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Michelle Barker shares advice on the not-so-obvious things you have to keep in mind when handling colors in CSS today. There’s more to color on the web than meets the eye, and it’s about to get a lot more interesting! Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design …
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Origin story of how bram.us came to be (and more) — a tale about frietkoten, dial-up internet, static HTML, ICQ cracks, a personal blog gradually evolving into a tech blog, … Table of Contents Frietkoten The very first Cyber Frietkot Discovering view-source (1997) Getting started with bramus.be (2001 — 2005) The Middle Ages: Moving to …
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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Brent gives a good overview of the additions that will land in PHP 8.1: Enums Readonly Properties New in initalizers (yes!) Fibers Array unpacking while retaining keys First class callables Pure intersection types The new array_is_list function PHP 8.1 in 8 code blocks →
The folks at Expo have made it really easy to build (and publish!) your React Native applications on their infrastructure, with their Expo Application Services (EAS) offering: You can build your app with EAS Build and automatically submit to app stores with EAS Submit in minutes or less, thanks to automatically managed app signing credentials, …
Egor Kloos on closing the gap between design and development: I have never worked anywhere where there wasn’t someone trying to close the gap. This role is often filled in accidentally, and companies are totally unaware of the need. Recruiters have never heard of it, and IT consultancies don’t have the capability in their roster. …
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