Create a Thumbnail From a Video with ffmpeg
25.10.2022
Creating a thumbnail to represent a video is a frequent task when presenting media on a website. I previously created a shell script to create a preview video from a larger video, much like many adult sites provide. Let’s view how we can create a preview thumbnail from a video! Developers...
Is There Too Much CSS Now?
24.10.2022
As front-end developers, we’ve wished for a lot of things over the years — ways to center things in CSS, encapsulate styles, set an element’s aspect ratio, get finer-grained control over our colors, select an element based on its children’s …
Is There Too Much CSS Now? originally...
Detect System Theme Preference Change Using JavaScript
24.10.2022
JavaScript and CSS allow users to detect the user theme preference with CSS’ prefers-color-scheme media query. It’s standard these days to use that preference to show the dark or light theme on a given website. But what if the user changes their preference while using your app?...
Fancy Image Decorations: Masks and Advanced Hover Effects
21.10.2022
Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part series! We are still decorating images without any extra elements and pseudo-elements. I hope you already took the time to digest Part 1 because we will continue working with a lot of gradients …
Fancy Image Decorations: Masks and Advanced Hover Effects...
Instant Articles, Proprietary Syndication, and a Web Built on User Fidelity Preferences
20.10.2022
I love it when there’s a sense of synergy in the blogosphere. First, I caught Nick Heer’s coverage of Meta ending support for Instant Articles, its proprietary format for stripped-down performant news articles. He also compares it to the similar …
Instant Articles, Proprietary...
Collective #734
20.10.2022
Lucide * Container Queries: Style Queries * Agreper * InvokeAI * Ultra * html.to.design
Responsive Animations for Every Screen Size and Device
20.10.2022
Before I career jumped into development, I did a bunch of motion graphics work in After Effects. But even with that background, I still found animating on the web pretty baffling.
Video graphics are designed within a specific ratio and …
Responsive Animations for Every Screen Size and Device...
How to Use Storage in Web Extensions
20.10.2022
Working on a web extension is an interesting experience — you get to taste web while working with special extension APIs. One such API is storage — the web extension flavor of persistence. Let’s explore how you can use session and local storage within your Manifest V3...
How to Make a Folder “Slit” Effect With CSS
19.10.2022
When you put something — say a regular sheet of paper — in a manilla folder, a part of that thing might peek out of the folder a little bit. The same sort of thing with a wallet and credit …
How to Make a Folder “Slit” Effect With CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #26
19.10.2022
Get a fresh dose of animation inspiration with this new set of creative Dribbble shots
Manuel Matuzovic: max() Trickery
18.10.2022
By way of a post by Manuel Matuzović which is by way of a demo by Temani Afif.
.wrapper {
margin-inline: max(0px, ((100% - 64rem) / 2));
}
You’d be doing yourself a favor to read Manuel’s breakdown of …
Manuel Matuzovic: max() Trickery originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Pure CSS Bezier Curve Motion Paths
17.10.2022
Are you a Bezier curve lover like I am?
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Besides being elegant, Bezier curves have nice mathematical properties due to their definition and construction. No wonder they are widely used in so many areas:
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Pure CSS Bezier Curve Motion Paths originally published...